Cold War
Published on Nov 30, 2015
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What was the principal cause for U.S. involvement in Vietnam?
- The Vietnamese were engaged in a struggle for independence from France
- The United State began to give extensive aid to the French in 1950
- American leaders believed that Communism was spreading throughout Asia
HY DID THE SOVIETS ESTABLISH CONTROL OVER MOST OF EASTERN EUROPE AT THE END OF WW11
- Soviet armies occupied Eastern Europe as they pursued the german forces
- was successful in preventing Stalin from subverting it in 1949
WHAT EAST EUROPEAN NATION REMAINED FREE FROM SOVIET CONTROL?
- Yugoslavia was not occupied by Soviet armies at the end of the WW11
- It was an independent state
WHAT CHANGES OCCURED IN RUSSIA AFTER THERE NEW LEADER?
- Khrushchev succeeded to power in Russia
- following the death of Stalin in 1953
- Khrushchev denounced Stalin for his crimes at a party congress
HOW DID THE COLD WAR DEVELOP IN ASIA?
- A quite separate development in Asia
- a civil war between the nationalist and the communist
