Title: The Korean War | Boundless US History
Headings: The Korean War
The Korean War
The Military Implementation of Containment
Key Points
Key Terms
Containment and the Korean War
The Korean War
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Key Terms
Overview
U.S. Intervention
Casualties
Aftermath
The Armistice
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The 38th Parallel
Stalemate in Korea
Armistice and the DMZ
Results of the War
McCarthyism
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Origins of McCarthyism
McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare
Victims of McCarthyism
The End of McCarthyism
Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election
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Election of 1952
Nominees
Campaigns
Results

Content: A United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground position between détente and rollback. Containment and the Korean War
Containment was the major Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. This policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. Containment represented a middle-ground position between detente (the easing of strained political relations) and rollback (forcing change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime). It lets the opponent choose the place and time of any confrontation. During the Cold War it meant intervening to prevent the spread of Communism to new countries but not attacking nations that were already Communist. In line with this policy, the U.S. attempted to curb Soviet influence on the Korean Peninsula by occupying the southern part of that area. The area occupied by the U.S. became South Korea, while the other part became North Korea.