Taiwan: -considered as success - North Korea attacked South Korea -Truman ordered US fleet to keep peace in the Taiwan Straits -from that point on, US gave lots of military and economic aid to them to contain Chinese communal -Eisenhower came in and withdrew fleet, allowing the Taiwan leader to "unleash" -Chiang kai-shek, leader of Taiwan, attacked mainland china -china used this as excuse to bomb Tachen Islands -US congress passed the Formosa resolution, allowing Eisenhower to take whatever action is needed to protect Taiwan -Eisenhower threatened china with nuclear weapons if they were to take over Taiwan -US got USSR to also put pressure on China -China backed down
Communism was contained but at a great human and economic loss. This resulted in huge losses in the UN Forces and Korean Civilians. Korean War: -usually considered a win because communism was kept above the 38th parallel -but, General MacArthur coming close to the Chinese despite warning and making them think we were coming at them caused a dispatch of Chinese soldiers. The confrontations that in Eastern Europe that lead to the Cold War was the Berlin Wall and America not being allowed access into Berlin.The basic differences that are rooted int the two systems would of eventually lead to the breaking point even if the Cold War did not happen when it did, because both of the ideologies wanted to expand their system world wide.US/Russia Confrontation: After the division of Germany and the capital of Berlin into a communist east and democratic west was the beginning of tensions that would eventually boil to a breaking point. For two such superpowers that had control over two different sectors of the globe, and that practiced two such different forms of government, conflict was of course going to be inevitable.Total state control over all forms of life. The Soviets believed in total authoritarian government.The Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship
Evidence: America is democratic and capitalistic.
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