Kim Il Sung and his Korean Communist supporters engaged in a vicious struggle for political control of the Korean people with Syngman Rhee and his anti-Communist adherents. Ho Chi Minh led Vietnamese Communists and other nationalists against the French colonial government in Indochina. In the Far East, regional Communist movements took the lead, but received military assistance from Moscow in efforts to eliminate opposing movements and governments. In 1948, the Soviets sparked a confrontation with the United States and its European allies over control of Berlin, the occupied and divided capital of the defeated German nation. He put diplomatic and military pressure on Turkey and Iran in the Middle East and supplied war material to Communists fighting to overthrow the government of Greece. Working with local Communist leaders and movements in the years after the war, Stalin eliminated the political and economic independence of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other nations in Eastern Europe. The USSR, under a murderous dictator, Joseph Stalin, acted to solidify the wartime conquests of the Soviet Red Army and advance the cause worldwide of Marxism Leninism, an ideology that subverted the very ideals most Americans then held sacred. Pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary.Soon after helping defeat Fascist tyranny in World War II, American Sailors faced a new global threat to the United States and the values for which their nation had long been a standard bearer democracy, basic human rights, and freedom. Of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc,Īssociated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc'sĪuthoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the Took its toll on Soviet coffers and its military. Communism just could not keep up with any free marketĬapitalist system in the world at that time. Was a paper tiger and not a viable system, the Soviets never knew Planned weapons system the Soviets feared the most. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or Star Wars, was the The Eastern Bloc by basically bankrupting their capability to The "war" was a chess matchīetween the two powers especially in the development of perspective Try and isolate the Soviets, social implications, especially in theĮarly 1950s, caused the great "commie hunt" in the United States, There was little political discourse, economic sanctions existed to
Spending and development "battles" were fought between the parties. TheĬold War was a non-combat "war." The Cold War, as noted, existedīecause of differing political ideologies between the two powers.īasically, it was the Western Ideals of democracy against theĮastern communists. China could also be included in the definition. The "Cold War," refers to the "war" between the United StatesĪnd Russia.
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