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After his narrow victory over Truman in 1948, President Dewey ordered a military build up and decided to keep US troops in South Korea. In 1950 there was a war scare when North Korea threatened to invade South Korea and expel the Americans from the peninsula with help from Communist China. Thanks to the efforts of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles the situation was resolved diplomatically. In retrospect, historians believe that the Korean Crisis had the potential to develop into a major war. How would Harry Truman have handled Korea if he had beaten Dewey in 1948?
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