... , and he took immediate action against this. He believed American capitalists were taking advantage of the Cubans. Angered by this aggressive attitude toward American "interests", the United States government established a trade embargo, hoping the Cuban people would overthrow Castro and reinstate a more "American friendly" leader. With a starving population on one side, and a broken economy on the other, Castro turned to Russia for ... , Castro offered the Russians a chance to extend their sphere of influence. An opportunity which was not refused. Of course, the American government did n...

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... to destroy South Vietnam. Ho used guerilla warfare in South Vietnam, piloted by Viet Cong divisions, with the target of bringing together the country under communist decree (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). The United States, seeking to contain the swell of communism, trained the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and made available military consultants to ... Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. By 1975 Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia had Communist governments (Westdad, Cuban and Vietnamese Challenges). Th...

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... war begins to escalade dramatically from 1951. In 1951 North Korea backed by communist China carried aggression against South Korea, China conquers Tibet. 1962 Cuban missile crisis bring world as close to nuclear war as never before and in 1964 China detonated it first nuclear bomb. By 1950's South- ... communist revolution in Bolivia. Only possible solution for many politics at that time was to fight it, like in Korea or stand firm as in Cuban missile crisis. Loss of a single battle, as it has been much feared in 1950's and 1960's, could result in even greater spread of ... (USA Today Se...

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