Question

Which of the following prompted the first use of UN military forces?

• A. Tension between the Soviet Union and the United States
• B. The nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States
• C. The North Korean invasion of South Korea
• D. The international agreement to put Nazi officials on trial for their crimes
• E. Anticommunist hysteria in the United States

Answer 1

The correct option is C The North Korean invasion of South Korea

The Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.