With the end of World War II came the end of Soviet and American alliance. Once fighting on the same side against a mutual enemy, their allegiance came to a halt as tensions grew as they looked at one another as the new enemy. In the decades following WWII, the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was extremely strained. The international situation in the Korean peninsula, and the uniquely American problem of McCarthyism both seriously damaged U. S.-Soviet relationships
The U.S and Soviet occupation of Korea divided Korea into democratic and communist regimes. The attack of North Korea on South Korea pushed the U.S into calling the United Nations for support as they labeled North Korea an aggressor. Once U.S helped the South Koreans they were in a position of open hostility to both Chinese and Soviet communism. This conflict posed the democratic and communist worlds .against each other. With the Panmunjom accords, hostility cooled, but the relations between......
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