U.S.A. Role

CONTAINMENT, thats the USA policy. USA tried to stop communism by containing Russias influence. The U.S. Felt like they lost a country once Russia spread their influence into China. When China started to spread their influence into North Korea, America went to war to keep communism out of South Korea.

Cold War Tensions- Communism

The Cold War was a long lasting war that put many tensions around the world. The major tension for the American people was whether or not America was going to become a communist country or not. This question scared many Americans because of the spread of communism in Asia, people were scared because they thought communism would eventually reach them!!! The rest of Asia and some of Europe had tensions such as going to war over communism and communism reaching them.

Cold War

The cold war put a threat of the spread of communism all over the world, it started directly after WWII in 1945. When America and Russia were once allies during WWII but then enemies. Communism started with the spread from Russia into China, through China into North Korea, which lead to the war in South Korea. The Korean war was a war that America sent over 500,000 men and spent 20-22 billion dollars to stop the communist belief .