The Cold War: The Vietnam War

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers due to their nuclear capabilities, had political and ideological rivalry which caused many events in the Cold War between 1945 and 1991. It was a “cold” war because there was no direct fighting between the two nations, but both wanted to prevent the other from spreading their political or economic ideas to other countries. The Soviets sought to spread communism while the United States adopted a policy of containment. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began in 1945 during the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. Germany and parts of Eastern Europe were to be divided amongst the Allied forces into temporary “spheres of influence” to rebuild these

After World War Two the U.S. and Soviet Union had a long-lasting rivalry since the Soviets were communists and the U.S. was not. This period is known as the Cold War because it was a major conflict where the U.S. and Soviet Union fought indirectly. The Cold War impacted the U.S. domestic policy and American society because it created American fear of communism. This fear later led to losing rights and the government switching where their money was being spent in certain areas such as general education.

Hajar AlHayki Ms. Winterfeldt US History 11 January 2018 The cold war is a war that began after the end of World War two, from 1945 until 1991. In which the United States and the soviet Unions were involved in this war. They were fighting for two different ideologies: communism and democracy ‘capitalism’. The United States wanted to spread democracy in Eastern Europe: Germany, in which the soviets wanted to spread communism.

This began a long, heated war between the Soviet and the United States, known as the Arms Race. The Cold War had started a couple years earlier soon after the World War had ended. This was basically a period of time where the United States and Soviet Russia exchanged many threats and were extremely hostile toward each other. This was somewhat strange, seeing as how the two countries fought as allies against the Axis powers. However, the United States long feared the spread of communism.

The Cold War was nonviolent tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. They were in a conflict about who would be the main world power. The war had many effects on American society. During the war, both sides had nuclear weapons ready to use if needed, however, these weapons were never used because it could have resulted in nuclear annihilation. The public perception was completely different during and after the war.

Introduction The Cold War was a conflict that began shortly after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union over their differences in ideologies (Koenig, The 1950's and the Cold War 1). The United States being a free market capitalist democracy, while the Soviet Union was a totalitarian communist regime. These two countries came out of World War II as the most powerful and given their difference in ideologies there was a rush to exert their influence onto third world countries to become the undisputed superpower of the world. Cold War gets Hot

The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies in the Western part of the World and the communist countries in Eastern Europe. The United States led the west and the Soviet Union led Eastern Europe. The Cold War ended in 1991 after the Soviet Union fell. After this war, Russia and America’s relationship was going on a downward spiral. The contemporary relationship between Russia and America does mark a Second Cold War, because just because Russia and America have similar hopes to achieve they both have completely different ways of achieve those goals, and in many cases these differences in opinions have caused problems between the two.

The Cold War was a period of tension and hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from the mid-40s to the late 80s. It began as World War II was ending, and was called “cold” because both sides were afraid of fighting each other directly with nuclear weapons. Many events contributed to the rising tensions between the two nations during the early years of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union were allies throughout World War II, though suspicious of each other at times.

During World War II the Soviet Union and the United States had been allies against the Axis Powers. However, the two world powers did not get along due to economic and political policies. The United States was capitalist and the Soviet Union was communist, which dilated the tension. The Red Scare was an event where fear of the spread of communism increased in the United States, and was buffered by propaganda. Thus, the Cold War ensued and would continue for decades to come.

The 4 ½ decade long clash between the U.S. and Soviet Union was dubbed “The Cold War” by Bernard Baruch because of the cold relations between the two competitive nations. The tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. began primarily because of the polar opposite ideologies of each nation, the U.S. being Capitalist and The Soviet Union being Communist, causing a multitude of disagreements between the two. The disputes between the two countries began during WWII when the U.S. left their Soviet allies flapping in the wind, when they refused to open a second front, which resulted in the Soviets taking a beating. The U.S. later excluded The Soviets from the Atomic bomb project, since the U.S refused to work with their scientists. The U.S was also becoming

Around 1945, tensions began arising between the US and the USSR, which lead to the Cold War. During a 40 year time period, each nation tried to spread their political and economic systems. Both the US and the USSR wanted to spread their ideologies across the world. The origin of the Cold War was distrust; in “fighting” this war, the political and military tactics were the most effective.

“The war in Vietnam is nothing but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit”-Martin Luther King Jr. “Vietnam was the first war ever fought without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public minds”-William Westmoreland. Two completely different views of Vietnam was created during the Vietnam War. As stated in the second quote, it was also the first war without censorship, creating the spark in the protest that would later follow, and becoming the most debatable war in US history. In 1960, the Cold War was still hot.

One of the wars that we had was the Vietnam war. One way this war helped was it inspired more people to voice their own oppinions and not be scared. This war also helped create social movements for people like women and Indian Americans. One bad thing that happened in this war was people started not to trust the goverment as much but that could probably be a good thing. Those were the effects of the Vietnam war.

The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea after multiple battles on the border and an invasion of South Korea by the North on June 25, 1950. Furthermore, North Korea was supported by China dn the Soviet Union while the South was primarily supported by the United States. Before the final days of World War II, Korea was controlled by Imperial Japan since 1910. Moreover, almost immediately after the dropping of an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Imperial Japan due to an agreement with the U.S. This declaration of war ended the Japanese rule over the north.

PAGE 1 "The Americans largely made their own disaster in Vietnam…The war does provide some lesson for American policy makers. "----The Vietnam War,Richard Evans,Wayland,Hove,1986.Is a good quote in context to the USA involvement in Vietnam between 1965 and 1975 as the US reasons for being in Vietnam led to a wave of negativity both internationally and in the US throught the following aspects to stop the spread of communism,the dominio theroy;nature of Vietnamese warfare;tactics and policies used by the USA during the Vietnam War;domestic reaction to the Vietnam War inn the US;international response to the USA role in the Vitnam War and finally the impact of Vietnam War on the USA's image. The reasons for the USA involvement in Vietnam