Korean War importance

1.The Korean War marked the first large-scale military enforcement of the policy of Containment.

2.The Korean War marked the first large proxy war, a pattern that emerged throughout the decades of the Cold War between the USSR and the United States.

3. It drew the alliances that exist today.

4. Those who fought in Korea demonstrated great courage and sacrifice and deserve to be honored ( some refer to the war as "The Forgotten War")

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