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The Berlin Blockade, Korean War And Cuban Missile Crisis

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Cold War

After World War II, the Russians were looking to expand what they thought is the only way for peace, they wanted to expand communism around the world but wanted to start with Europe a country that is trying to rebuild. Europe was trying to recover from World War II and was struggling so Russia saw it as the perfect opportunity. The United States didn’t like that very much because they were capitalist and feared communism. The United States did something called containment, they contained other countries trying to help them not go communist. Three examples demonstrating the United States policy of containment were the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, and Cuban Missile Crisis.

The United States sent over vital stuff all the time to Berlin trying to keep them out of communism. In Berlin they were having problems there country (Germany) Was split up into four sections (WestSide unified they became West Germany. East Germany was Communist. Berlin was divided into half and was communist on one side, well that wasn’t good enough for Stalin so he decided to put a blockade on Berlin till the whole thing went Communist. The United States sent …show more content…

North Korea wanted to make the entire country communist and not just half. The attack took everyone by surprise and because of the attack the United States wanted in on the action. North Korea had pushed the United States and South Korean forces why back and almost had all of the territory but United States General MacArthur planned a very risky attack it was successful and then South Korea had a lot of the country. 1950 Chia joined the war a pushed South Korea back to their side. The war kept going but eventually it stopped where it all started and the borders were still the same. When the United States helped South Korea and didn’t lose show how they contained communism. (Doc

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