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The Korean War happened because of what is called containment. After WWII The U.S. and the Soviet Union were world powers that didn'd like each other at all. Communism, the government that the Soviets had was spreading throughtout Asia and to other areas. The U.S. did not want the Soviets to get too many allies (most of the countries who became communists allied the soviots in the Warsaw Pact) so containment was the answer, that is they contained the Soviets where they were stopping there spread. This was all part of the cold war which really had little actual battles. But in Korea, N. Korea was Communist and S. Korea was not. The U.S. wanted to stop this so they help S. Korea resist N. Korean aggression. N. Korea atted South Korea nearly destroying them, but the United Nations join south Korea. Most of the U.N. forces were Americans but it is techniquely the U.N. who fought in that war. The fighting went back and forth like a sew saw on who was winning when the fighting was over, this war lasting for a couple years, the new border between the countries is not much different then where it started. The battle seemed to have no purpose but it did stop the comunists from spreading so it was a victory for the U.N.

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