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Total cost of the World War II education program was $14.5 billion.

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Harry Truman adopts the policy in 1946

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The United States provided aid to noncommunist South Korea. North Korea South Korea

During the winter of 1950 and 1951, communist forces pushed UN troops to the 37 th parallel.

Changing Policy The U.S. now faced the possibility of all- out war against the world’s most populous nation. MacArthur favored invading China to win a total victory. Truman refused. He favored a limited war to help stabilize South Korea. Truman fires General MacArthur when he advises Truman he would use nuclear weapons against the Chinese

By the spring of 1951, UN forces secured their position near the 38 th parallel, and a tense stalemate began.