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The beginning of the cold war .The development of the cold war .The sharpen of the cold war .The end of the cold war INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS THE 39。 The United States with strong strength to dominate the world 。s Republic, under Mao Zedong, was proclaimed in China. This Communist triumph was a great shock to the United States. Overnight, the Communist influence seemed to have extended into the very heart of Asia and onto the doorstep of occupied Japan. The sheer physical size of Soviet Russia and China, and of their bined populations, gave a double threat to the American policy of containment. It was against this background that a fullscale war broke out in Korea. ? After the Second World War, Korea north of 38th parallel had been occupied by the Russians, while south of the 38th parallel by the Americans. As no agreement on a mon government for the whole country had been reached, the Russians established a munist regime in North Korea and the Americans a westernoriented democracy in South Korea. Syngman Rhee was elected Pres