Cold War Conflicts (1950's-1980's)
After World War II, there was great tension between the communist and non communist nations. An example of this divide was the Iron Curtain in Europe. The iron curtain was an imaginary divide between the communist countries and the non communist countries. The US was trying to control the spread of communism by maintaining the idea of containment. A second example of this divide is when the US created NATO, which was an alliance between non communist nations. In order to combat this alliance, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact, which was an alliance between communist nations. The US wanted to stop the spread of communism because they believed that the Domino theory, the idea that if one nation fell to communism other nations will fall as well, could easily occur. Another event that occurred in the US, was the idea of McCarthyism spreading. McCarthyism was when a man named Joseph McCarthy was falsely accusing every day Americans of being communists. In order to help support the weaken European nations, President Harry Truman passed the Marshall Plan which gave $13 billion dollars to European Nations. An event that occurred abroad, was the Korean War. The Korean War was when the US gave support to South Korea to become a free nation. The US supported South Korea because their government was a democracy or pro western and North Korea's was communist. Finally, the US wanted to help create peace in Europe and in 1945, President Roosevelt created the United Nations, a group of nations whose goal was to promote international co-operation.
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