The Korean War was the United Nation's first international conflict, in terms of its magnitude, it outstripped all other ventures conducted under the auspices of the UN, and is matched perhaps only by the Gulf War. The controversy surrounding its ambiguous commencement in June, 1950, resolves around the United States, the Security Council and the U.S.S.R, and it has often been argued that UN activity in the war was merely a cover for …showed first 75 words of 1107 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1107 total…contravention of the principal of self-determination would have ensured that is would never have challenged the U.S.S.R without an equal power behind it. It requested the US to make the jump from containment to rollback, and that jump was driven by anti-Communist pressure in Congress and the America's nation of impatient idealists. Therefore, UN activity in the Korean War in 1950-53 must be judge finally as merely a cover for US anti-Communism.