COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The USSR
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The South side of the country
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The North Side of the county
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China
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did the Vietnam War start? The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam’s government and military since Vietnam’s partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954.
Detailed explanation-2: -Americans and their South Vietnamese allies referred to the People’s Liberation Armed Forces as “insurgents” or “Viet Cong.” U.S. military advisers were sent to Vietnam to train and support South Vietnamese troops.
Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S. supported the Republic of Korea (commonly called South Korea), in repelling an invasion from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (commonly called North Korea). The Korean War was a conflict that emerged after World War II. The Empire of Japan had occupied the Korean Peninsula during the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.
Detailed explanation-5: -America wanted not just to contain communism-they also wanted to prevent the domino effect. Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade.