El Salvador Civil War

The United States had a great fear for communism during the time of El Salvador’s civil war. Ronald Reagan said this in regard to why the United States decided to support the government of El Salvador "to halt the infiltration into the Americas, by terrorists and by outside interference, and those who aren't just aiming at El Salvador but, I think, are aiming at the whole of Central and possibly later South America and, I'm sure, eventually North America."(Blum). Keep in mind the Soviet Union was America's biggest threat at the time.So the US decided to intervene and aid El Salvadors government in hopes they would control their revolution, But was the United States justified in providing aid to El Salvador during the civil war? Yes, the United States had reason to worry because they were convinced that the Soviet …show more content…
Reagan was more concerned of countries in Central American like El Salvador and Nicaragua because they were closer to the United States than any other threat in the east. Reagan looked at the catastrophe that would happen if Central America were to convert to communism. The rebellion of El Salvador was influenced by Cuba with the active support of the Soviet Union, East Germany , Vietnam and other communist states.The FMLN were supported by the with ammunition.,the leader of Cuba himself, Fidel Castro, supported the FMLN.

El Salvador has been a country ruled by their own military since 1932, when the Central American Socialist Party was created. The peasants replied with riots and protests. The revolt did not last long due to the Salvadoran military killing 30,000 civilians. They