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This map shows the spread of the communist movement after WWII.
A map of Eurasia. China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Turkey, and Egypt are shaded in purple.

What set the stage for the Korean War?
The spread of communism in Eastern Europe.
The spread of communism in eastern Asia.
The clear divisions between communist governments and democracies in Asia.
The clear divisions between communist governments and democracies in Europe.

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The clear divisions between communist governments and democracies in Asia.

After WWII Korea was split at the 38th parallel into a Soviet-backed communist North and a U.S.-backed noncommunist South, creating the ideological—and military—fault line that led to the Korean War.