What country controlled korea during world war ii?

china
japan
the soviet union
the united states

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Japan had taken annexed Korea already in 1910 as part of its imperial aggression and expansion in Asia.  Japan continued to maintain control of Korea until the final year of World War II, in 1945.  Soviet forces battled Japan in Asia in the later part of 1945.  After the USA dropped atomic bombs on Japan in August, 1945, Soviet forces moved into Korea from the north.  American forces took over in the south.  From then on, the country was divided at the 38th parallel between a communist northern half and democratic southern half.

Defeat in the Crimean War further reduced Russian interest in this region. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would off-set the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain.

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