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The communist-democratic war over Korea took root during World War II, when the United States, Great Britain and China decided to make Korea independent of Japanese rule. President Roosevelt suggested a trusteeship that would place the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain and China in governance over Korea until the country could elect its own leader. While Roosevelt hoped that a joint trusteeship between the US and Soviets would encourage peace between the two countries, relations began to diminish as the Soviets began to claim more of its neighbors as territories. Continues...

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