In June of 1950 the unstable political situation in Korea finally reached it's breaking point. The Pyongyang regime sent over 100,000 troops across the thirty-eighth in a surprise attack on South Korea and captured the city of Seoul. The U.S government, convinced that the USSR had sanctioned the attack, demanded that the United Nations require all it's member states to "provide the Republic of South Korea with all necessary aid to repel the aggressors." The U.S successfully pushed the North Koreans back to the thirty-eighth parallel and then occupied Pyongyang.

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Rivalry between U.S and Soviet Union