The impact of the Korean war on the development of Cold War in 1950's

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  The impact of the Korean war on the development of Cold War in 1950's
  
  In this essay we are analyzing several arguments. First is that the Korean war shaped the course of the cold war by both resolving the incoherence which characterized U.S. foreign and defense efforts in the period 1946-1950 and establishing important new lines of policy.
  Second, if the war had not taken place, no other events that were likely to have occurred would have produced the effects that Korea did.
  Unlike many earlier turning points, such as the British withdrawal from Greece and Turkey in 1947, there were few functional substitutes for Korea. Thus, without Korea, international history would have been very different.
  Third, this analysis should cast doubt on theories which see the general outline of the cold war as explicable by such deeply rooted factors as the existence of bipolarity or the needs of the American economic system.
  In all cases it took the Korean war to bring about the policies that we associate with the cold war.
  It is difficult to say how American leaders saw the nature of the Soviet threat and impossible to put a number on the perceived probability of war. Almost no one thought the Russians were seeking a war; they were seen as far too weak for that. Almost no one felt certain that peace would last for many years; Russian hostility and probing posed too many dangers for such confidence. In the summer of 1948, the possibility of war was taken seriously enough to merit the development of an NSC paper setting forth U.S. goals in a Soviet-American war.