Question 15 • TX-US History Studies Since 1877 B-Credit Recovery Summer School
After Japan’s defeat in World War II in 1945, Korea was freed from Japanese rule but divided into occupation zones. The Soviet Union occupied the north and the United States occupied the south, with the boundary set at the 38th parallel. Thus, the peninsula was divided at the 38th parallel—not absorbed into China or placed under Japanese control.
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