Korean War AlmanacInfobase Publishing, 2006 - 592 pagine The Korean War was the first "hot war" of the Cold War, the first "police action" undertaken by the United States under the aegis of the United Nations, and the first war to be overshadowed by the menace of nuclear conflagratio. |
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