128,650 US causalities were caused from the Korean War, though that is just one event from the Cold War. From about 1945-1991 The Soviet Union and the United States had “icy” tensions which was also known as the cold war. The U.S. wanted capitalism as the Soviet’s wanted communism, they became enemies and the worlds superpowers. In order so communism didn’t spread to the U.S. and our territories, we had contained all of those areas from it. Some argue that US exaggerated communist threat and others say U.S. containment prevented communist revolution. I agree that the U.S. containment prevented communist revolution because Eastern Europe was blocked off by the Soviet Union as communism was being spread, US had sent aid to countries to help contain
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and Europe. Even though the U.S. and Soviet Union never fought they were still enemies. A quote that greatly describes this is “The enemy of my emeny, is my friend.” Meaning that the US or Soviet Union supported whoever was fighting the other. The U.S. was involved with other countries to make sure that the communism wouldn’t spread to them through many ways such as: The Korean War, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, etc. U.S. had stayed true to their foreign policy of containment. According to FDR Letter to Ambassador to USSR, William Bullitt 1943), “I just have a hunch that Stalin…doesn’t want anything but security for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he wouldn’t try to annex anything and will work with us for a world of democracy and peace.” Though this was not true, Soviet’s and the U.S. had different forms of government and Stalin wanted a world of communism, not democracy. From this, the U.S. definitely did not exaggerate communist threat, they were just preventing global communist revolution because Eastern Europe was blocked off by the Soviet Union as communism was being spread, U.S. had sent aid to countries to help contain them, and nuclear weapons that were created kept the conflicts
and Europe. Even though the U.S. and Soviet Union never fought they were still enemies. A quote that greatly describes this is “The enemy of my emeny, is my friend.” Meaning that the US or Soviet Union supported whoever was fighting the other. The U.S. was involved with other countries to make sure that the communism wouldn’t spread to them through many ways such as: The Korean War, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, NATO, etc. U.S. had stayed true to their foreign policy of containment. According to FDR Letter to Ambassador to USSR, William Bullitt 1943), “I just have a hunch that Stalin…doesn’t want anything but security for his country, and I think that if I give him everything I possibly can and ask nothing from him in return, noblesse oblige, he wouldn’t try to annex anything and will work with us for a world of democracy and peace.” Though this was not true, Soviet’s and the U.S. had different forms of government and Stalin wanted a world of communism, not democracy. From this, the U.S. definitely did not exaggerate communist threat, they were just preventing global communist revolution because Eastern Europe was blocked off by the Soviet Union as communism was being spread, U.S. had sent aid to countries to help contain them, and nuclear weapons that were created kept the conflicts