Which statement best describes how both the United States and the Soviet Union viewed the Korean War?
1Points

A
The Soviet Union viewed the war as an act of outside aggression while the United States saw it as a nationalistic struggle.

B
The Soviet Union saw the war as a way to discredit capitalism while the United States saw it as a chance to boost its own economy.

C
The United States considered the war a success for containment while the Soviet Union considered it proof of its own status as a world power.

D
The United States viewed the war as a religious struggle while the Soviet Union considered it an economic dispute.

Even though the U.N. armed forces led by the U.S. military had averted the complete occupation of South Korea by the North Korean army and came very close to occupy the whole Korean peninsula thus allowing the creation of a unified Korean state under the government of Seoul, the Chinese intervention in November 1950 threatened to drive the U.N. forces out of Korea. After a counteroffensive by the U.N. forces, the opposing forces reached an impasse pretty much along the borderline prior to the war, and no significant territorial gains were made by either side since the second half of 1952 until the end of the war.

Though a partial failure, the U.S. announced the outcome of the Korean War as a triumph of contention against communism. The Soviets, in turn, claimed a victory of communism against capitalism as the U.S. and its allies had been driven out of North Korea.