Colleges proved to be particularly strong staging grounds for protests against U.S. President Richard Nixon sought a military victory with more and more American troops, provided by a draft of young American men. With political opposition mounting, Johnson refused to seek election in 1968. President Lyndon Johnson, fearing an expansion of communism in Southeast Asia, committed even more troops to the conflict. Americans' Response to the Vietnam WarĪmerican involvement in Vietnam was very unpopular at home. withdrawal after staggering losses of soldiers and civilians on both sides. Eventually, the North Vietnamese army forced a U.S. stepped in when the French were defeated to prevent losing neighboring Southeast Asian nations one by one to communist-aligned forces. Fearing what was called the "domino effect", the U.S. In the 1950s, nationalist forces in Vietnam tried to overthrow the French colonial power and drew support from neighboring Communist China. It was, however, committed to preventing the spread of communism ("containment") to new territories. It did not seek to push back the Soviets from Eastern Europe or Communist Chinese on the theory that their own internal weaknesses would eventually lead to their collapse.
adopted the policy of containment first developed by diplomat George Kennan. The arms race even extended into space with programs first of satellites and then of manned space flights. However, nuclear deterrents did not stop ground wars between other nations and intense economic and diplomatic competition. Both countries greatly increased military spending. and the Soviets invested in massive nuclear build-ups designed to so threaten the devastation of the other that an attack would be unthinkable. Cold War Arms RaceĬold War tensions grew ever more grave with the invention of atomic weapons by both sides. In the early 1950s, the Korean War pitted the South Korea, United States and others under the flag of the United Nations against North Korea and Communist China. While there were no direct military conflicts between the two superpowers, there were several armed clashes with military support by one side or the other or both. It refers to the intense rivalry for world domination between the United States and its allies on one hand and the Soviet Union and other communist countries on the other. Historians generally date the Cold War from the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Was the world made safe for democracy by the U.S. National Register of Historic Places & Landmarks.Iowa Cultural & Entertainment DistrictsĪ A State Historical Society of Iowa - Secondary Navigation.
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