... . Their first leader was Kim Il Sung who called North Korea as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. On the other hand, United States was in charged of South Korea and promoted a democratic system whose president was Syngman Rhee. Between (1951-1953), in the Korean war communist country North Korea surprised the US by invading the democratic South Korea. The Soviet's one more time are trying to take over ... the entire peninsula from their position in the north to spread communist, but the United States right ... ...

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... north over the 38th parallel on a course into China. The United Nation's forces were meet by the Chinese and forced back south of the border in 1951. The war continued on for two more years and President Truman confessed that nuclear weapons were even consider on two occasions. The innovations of the Korean War were the helicopter for medical evacuations, naval power for evacuations, and improvements on the amphibious landing. The Vietnam War was the result of the 1954 American ... political action against the takeover of Vietnam by the communist Ho Chi Minh. The United States sought to...

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... based on the teachings of the Buddha, or "the awakened one." The philosophy aims to help sentient beings end their suffering by eliminating the greed and ignorance from their lives. Buddhism arose during the fifth century BCE in India and is currently practiced by approximately 500 million people throughout the world. Buddhism first spread to the western world in the second half of the nineteenth ... These immigrants built temples to practice Mahayana Buddhism, and their ideas encouraged Buddhist teachings towards the end of the century. Buddhist ideas became more known when Americans r...

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... mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it ... is still hard to decide what should be considered the exact beginning of the Cold War and what were the most significant reasons ...

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... mode (Korea, Vietnam, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Grenada, and so on. d.); creation of a system of military alliances (NATO, the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, CENTO, ANZUS, ANZYUK); speeding up the arms race and war preparations; a sharp increase in military spending; economic competition (wearing down); recurring international crises (Berlin crisis, the Cuban missile crisis, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Afghan war, and others.); conducting a massive "psychological war", whose aim was to promote their own ideology and ... way of life, as well as discrediting in the eyes of the population "enemy"...

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... ", which was the theory that as one country became communist, the next would and so on. This was shown to be happening when at first China and the North Korea and then Vietnam became communist. This was when the allies moved in to stop it because they believed it would spread all through South-East Asia to Australia. Examples of this was the Korean War in 1950 during ... which the communist forces which occupied ... North Korea, which was run by communist Russia, crossed the border and invaded South Korea, which was run by the USA. Forces from Australia immediately moved into the countr...

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