HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The Great Society
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Brinkmanship
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Containment
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The Marshall Plan
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The Vietnam and Korean Wars are both similar in that in each case a communist North fought a capitalist South, and in both cases, the United States of America helped prop up a government that might have otherwise fallen.
Detailed explanation-2: -The conflict of two economic and political systems, communism and liberalism, caused a number of problems and led to several military conflicts. The Vietnam War and the Korean War were two of those conflicts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Not only had the USA failed to stop Vietnam falling to communism, but their actions in the neighbouring countries of Laos and Cambodia had helped to bring communist governments to power there too. Many US politicians were mounting pressure to commit to peace. The policy of containment had failed in the propaganda war.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1947, President Harry S. Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine.