The Korean War, 1950-1953, was limited to the Korean peninsula because
a. the United States feared that attacking China might prompt Soviet retaliation.
b. neither side could win a decisive victory.
c. military technology had stagnated.
d. geographic conditions favored a defensive war.
e. of the inaccessibility of its location.
ANSWER:
a
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