There was little down time between the end of World War II and the beginning of the Truman administration's next foreign problem, the occupation of Korea and the Korean War. ... Rhee's regime was the trigger to kicking off the Korean War. ... Several reasons backed Truman in entering the Korean War. ... Truman knew that doing nothing in Korea would have a devastating effect on the occupation of Japan, with North Korea having airfields near Japan's major cities (Ferrell 115). ... The midst of the Korean War, almost all of South Korea was t...

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