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The Vietnam War: The Period Of The Cold War

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The period of the Cold war was 1947 – 1991 and it started as a conflict between the United States and The Soviet Union that quickly arose. For two years they tried to work out their conflict about the splitting of Europe, postwar economic aid, and the atomic bomb by talking things through and trying to arrange a solution that satisfied both. Both sides were afraid of each other so they began to take actions that made the other even more fearful. “Atomic weapons made the mistakes of miscalculation far greater than in the past and everyone more fearful”(686). The expansion of the cold war expanded when the United States and the Soviet Union choose different sides in the Chinese civil war. Quickly after the communist won, North Korea fought South

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