The threat of United States aggression unquestionably deterred the Soviets from spreading their influence. ... In addition, the threat of United States military action against communist aggression contained the communist threat to its roots in Russian and Eastern Europe. ... Between Truman's actions against communism, and the overwhelming American attitude towards it, the Soviets had to at least act in self defense as they too believed they were a world superpower. ...

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The Soviet Union was a single party state and held a communist economic system that the U.S wanted to hold a 'containment' foreign policy towards. ... This firmness towards Stalin had begun years before in 1945 when the U.S demonstrated its nuclear power upon Japan. ... Following the Berlin blockade, the fear of soviet aggression in Western Europe reached a new high. ... It is argued that the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan could be seen as threatening acts towards the Soviet Union as the U.S bribed Western Europe to side with them. ... This makes Truman's policy towards the ...

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President Lyndon Johnson and his administration's main reason for escalating troops was because they wanted to use South Vietnam as an example, the administration wanted to prove to that the United States would not stand for Communist aggression. Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... The protesting began towards the end of the war but in the civilians opinion it was never too late to start. ...

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Due to the growing aggression of the Soviets to move into new territories and their efforts to spread communism to struggling and helpless countries, the United States implemented the policy of Containment. ... The Soviet Union felt that Marshall Plan provided the United States with prospective monopolistic capital and was a step towards U.S world domination (Doc.1). ...

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The allies felt threatened by the "iron curtain that seemed to have descended upon the continent" and the tensions between the West and Russia was escalated because of Stalin's aggressions and his supposed aims of isolating the west. ... This resulted in the death of 26 million Russians and they felt mistrust and anger towards the West. ...

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United States knew it was time to do something about it, they could not let this spread to the US and other nations that have not yet moved politically towards Soviet Union Communist. ... Truman once again stand against Communist aggression in Korea so right away Truman sent ground troops to Korea which we never called war it was a police action. ...

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This can be regarded as a small first step towards ending the Cold War - the USSR was too proud to show her need in US products. ... Therefore, the USA's aggression against communism - for North Vietnam declared herself communist - escalated even further and the point made earlier about the USA willing to "de-globalise" globalised Cold War does not stand. ...

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