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¶ … Cold War

It is true that the West became more suspicious when the soviets began installing puppet governments in neighboring nations. Going back to the annals of history, Yugoslavia is one such country where the Soviets installed a puppet government. When Yugoslavia was pressured by the German Nazi government in 1941, she formed an alliance with the Axis of Powers. However, the Yugoslav military formed resistance armies. This is when the Partisans organized by Josip Broz Tito came into perspective. The Partisans overthrew the pro-German government. Tito's government was the puppet of the Soviet considering the fact that he was a very close ally of the Soviet. Germany later invaded Yugoslavia and took over power.

In 1943, the Partisans with assistance from United States and other allies freed Belgrade and established communist rule there. These developments coupled with the division of Germany into German Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic re-affirm the fact that the Soviet Union and the West were more concerned with the balance of power more than internationalism. It is curios why Henry Wallace, a trusted and long standing 'lieutenant' of Franklin Roosevelt, would make a sudden about-turn and call for rapprochement with the Soviets. A sudden change of heart by Wallace could have been an indicator of an existing political will to engage in rapprochement. I strongly feel that the Cold War is something that could have been avoided. Presidents who were in office during the cold war era made an indication that any country that was under communist' threat would be given any kind of help by the United States without further ado.

Vietnam War, just like any other example of cold war, was all about communism and fear. The United States basically got involved in the Vietnam War to get rid of communism or at least to slow it down. Period. In fact, the advancers of Domino theory might have misled United States into believing that puppet governments of the Soviet Union like Yugoslavia and Northern Vietnam might help in expanding communist rule into other countries. United States therefore felt that containment was the right way to go. In the Vietnam War case, the United States was convinced that if she failed to act then communism would find its ways into Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and even Japan. Justification that the United States used to enter the Vietnam conflict also suggests that the cold war should never have been there in the fast place.

The Vietnamese who were tired of the French rule were desperate for any kind of assistance that could make them send the French parking. This badly needed help came from the Soviets. The U.S. took this an ideological warfare. The American defense industries with loads of their cash compromised lobbyists who piled pressure on administration to escalate the U.S. commitment in Vietnam.