POLS 368 Lecture Notes - Warsaw Pact, Anzus, Baghdad Pact
2 Feb 2013
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The cold war was considered to be irreversible once china asked for the soviet union"s help. Americans supported syngman rhee when kim il-song was in power in north korea. South korea may well have attacked the north, had things gone on for a few more months. Since documents have been released, we now know that the north attacked the south, and reasons for reports coming is because some attacks were repelled. Armies were eventually driven to the north, but not before the chinese got involved. The chinese sent volunteers into china to prevent the south koreans (with un backing) from pushing all the way to the border with china. There was never any declared war or fighting. The reason this became a turning point is because of how the united state viewed it. They thought that if they didn"t make a stand here, communist forces could expand.
