Us Involvement In The Cold War

The Soviet Union and The United States never fought against one another. Nor did they go to war against one another. Instead, they fought through economics and politics. They did not cooperate, and work with each other, but worked against one another. This occurrence between the Soviet Union and the United states is called the cold war. This leads to communism, something the United States was against. Vietnam and Korea were two communist states, that the United States fought two wars against to expand their sphere of influence in order to become a superpower. In Asia, the Cold War created many brutal wars that were supported by the superpowers.
The first war was the Korean War, which occurred from 1950 to 1953. “When World War ended, Korea became a divided nation” (Modern World History 2012). During that time, Korea was divided into two parts. The non-communists in the south, and the Communists in
“Much like [The United States] involvement in the Korean War, the involvement of the US in vietnam stemmed from its Cold War containment policy” (The Soviet Union- A Country Study). The Unites States simply wanted to help unite Vietnam as well, so they wouldn’t have a communist government system. This was was very long, and resulted in many casualties. This result in the 20th century is the many dived areas in the United States. There were also some Americans who didn;t wants the United States to participate in the fight between Vietnam, but at the end of the war, the US lost, and Vietnam became a communist government.
The Cold war continuously went on until 1990. At this time, the Soviet Union soon began to break apart, and became into many smaller countries. The Cold War ended, then former Soviet Union and the United States became allies. Therefore, the Soviet Union’s motivation to expand their sphere of influence in order into Korea and Vietnam became a superpower in the 20th