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S3 Episode 3 - "The Blue House"

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What Was All This Driving At?

In 1946, a State Department memo concluded that communism had to be fought worldwide. In the Western occupation zone of Germany, food riots led the US military governor to sound the alarm over what he described as a growing communist movement. The League of People's Committees set up in Korea by left-wingers and liberals declared the Korean People's Republic after World War II. A pamphlet from the time put out by the National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions called for redistribution of land to those who work on it; nationalization of Japanese-owned property: C, punishment of pro-Japanese traders. D, progressive labor reform,. E, united, independent, democratic country.

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