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by Trinity Tran and Sydney Le
Period 4
The Truman Doctrine was developed in 1947 and was carried out until 1950. Congress passed the policy, deciding it was essential in containing Soviet influence. It allowed the US to support nations resisting "attempted subjugation" (textbook, 606).
The Cuban Missile took place from October 16-28 in 1962. The crisis happened between the US and the USSR. The US had failed to overthrow the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, during the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Afterwards, Castro allowed for the construction of Soviet missile sites to be built within Cuba to deter any sort of future invasion. In order to resolve this crisis, US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev came to a resolution: the Soviet Union would repeal their Cuban missile sites if and only if the US abolished their missile sites in Turkey. Ultimately, both sides agreed to this proposal and both missile sites were taken down. This is an example of containment because the US got involved in order to avoid a potential nuclear holocaust caused by communist leaders.
NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Made in a response to the spread of communism, the purpose of NATO is to maintain peace throughout the world through political and military means. The organization was established in 1949 and was founded by 12 countries, the main ones being France, US, Luxembourg, Denmark, Belgium and Canada.
NATO is a form of containment because the organization vows to safeguard any allied country from communism. An attack on any one NATO-involved country is an attack on them all.
$400 million was sent to Turkey and Greece to help them resist Communism control.
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After World War II, civil war resumed in China and lasted from 1945-1949. Chinese Nationalists fought against Chinese Communists.
The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. Under the support of the Soviet Union and China, North Korea invaded South Korea, prompting the South to call for assistance from the UN.
On August 4, 1964, the USS Maddox was allegedly fired at by a North Vietnamese patrol boat at the gulf of Tonkin, despite the weather lowering the visibility rates.
The US sent military and financial support to the Nationalists in hopes of keeping communism contained in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, the Communists won and the Nationalists fled to Taiwan, an island off the coast of China (textbook, 610).
Because of how expensive the program would cost, the US trashed the SDI. Some Americans also viewed the program as unrealistic and called the SDI "star wars" (coldwar.org).
President Truman sent troops in support of South Korea, a democratic capitalist nation, because the US wanted to prevent communism from spreading (textbook, 611).
President Johnson saw the "attack" as an opportunity to provide military support to the South Vietnamese, who were capitalists fighting communists. On Aug. 7, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution was adopted, allowing the US to deploy soldiers in Vietnam to prevent "further aggression" and to keep communism from spreading to Vietnam (textbook 735).
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