Answer: Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The country was split along the 38th parallel, with Soviet forces occupying the northern zone and Americans stationed in the south.
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The ancient Greeks were the first to create a democracy. The word “democracy” comes from two Greek words that mean people (demos) and rule (kratos). Democracy is the idea that the citizens of a country should take an active role in the government of their country and manage it directly or through elected representatives. In addition, it supports the idea that the people can replace their government through peaceful transfers of power rather than violent uprising or revolution. Thus, a key part of democracy is that the people have a voice.
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President Wilson’s proposal to form the League of Nations was most weakened by isolationist sentiment in the US, which was filled with people who thought joining the League of Nations would result in the US getting dragged into more wars.
I was in a Canadian History Class at the time. Our prof was concerned but he was calm while everyone else was in a great flurry. He did,however, say that Kennedy had ICBMs Khrushchev did not. He turned out to be very accurate in his assessment. Russia could not launch missiles without retaliation, so Khrushchev blinked. He was a pretty tough guy who had survived Leningrad so it was a pretty big blink.
