... , free from coercion the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations". ~ Harry S. Truman This quote from Harry Truman gave life to the beginning of the Cold War, which from 1945-1991 pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Communist nations. The Marshall Plan, which is what Truman is referring to in the above quote, was the catalyst, which set ... million dollars more than the U.S. gave to all the rest of Latin America combined. Vietnam The Vietnam War was a war fought between 1964 and 1975 on the ground in South Vietnam and bordering areas of Cambodia and Laos,...

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... 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" countries and "third world" the official ideology and lifestyle of the opposite block. To this end, we set up radio ... finally "caught up with" the enemy. Historians should reconsider this myth, like many other myths. In our view, an objective in the course of the Cold War, the nature of the confrontation...

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... on other nations to take the initiative in resisting communism."" Ideas such as these would lead to American involvement in the Korean and Vietnam War, and mass hysteria over the spread of communism. By the early 1950s, Americans had become utterly terrified as a result of the Cold War. There were three main reasons why Americans had become so alarmed by this time. These reasons consisted ... , and McCarthy's fall was the start of the declining hysteria. The Cold War originated because of Soviet expansionism and American fear of communism. This unusual war drastically changed American fo...

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... around a strategy to get America out of the war. In 1970, the number of troops in Vietnam started to fall and by 1972 there were only 47,000 troops compared to 539,000 in 1969. While the United States was backing out of the quicksand pit known as Vietnam, the Cold War was far from over. Vietnam was the beginning of public distrust of government officials in the United States. The ... President and many of the advisors in Vietnam lied to the public about what was going on. This made the country afraid to commit ... itself to any foreign conflict. It served as an albatross that would han...

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... which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. This policy also had another name "Containment". Communism had to be contained so that it should and would not spread any further. The Russians and their Communist ideals ... might be even more chaotic and bloody than it already is. Despite this, there are still many countries - most of them Islamic- that probably still wish that the U.S would return to "isolationism" Another exampl...

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... whether or not Truman entered the United States into the Cold War or not. These next few pages will outline Truman's presidency beginning and focusing mainly on the "Truman Doctrine- and its effects on foreign policy after 1947. To begin to talk about life after the end of War World II without discussing the war in detail may due it some injustice, but after all ... matter, from a policy of almost total isolationism to one of containment. This new policy of containment far outlives Truman today. Reading historical text and taking this class has shown me that the Truman Doctrine lives on...

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... in Asia had often paved the way for European soldiers, one can now see why patriotic nationalists would fear the spread of Christian ideas. French priests were looked upon as agents of French imperialism, particularly as the French were annexing Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from the Chinese empire in those years. The first Protestant missionary arrived in Korea in 1884. In ... could be more effectively supervised by the military occupation authorities. Comparable to the terrible persecution of Christians during the rule of Daewongun was the Japanese persecution of Korean Christians begin...

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