Communism Vs Vietnam War

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“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”Mao Zedong, (Mao Zedong Quotes).Communism is nothing but a practice of the government, a necessary evil that countries enact in order to accomplish feets. This is not the opinion of a conservationist but the opinion of a communist dictator of china who killed more people than Hitler and Stalin, at an astounding total of 78 million civilian deaths. This harsh practice causes fear to those who live under communism and those who are in fear of being annihilated by it. This fear increases the more powerful communism grows , causing the culture to be afraid, that they would lose their freedom and perhaps even their life, sending the culture into a panic influencing …show more content…

However the south did not wish to become communist so it started the Korean war. US troops were sent in aid to fight communist backed north, this eventually resulted in the communist North and the free South Korea to be split at the 38th parallel, and technically they are still at war with Each other. Similar to the Korean war the Vietnam war would be fought to stop the Vietcong, backed by communist China. Except the US after years of fighting pulled out of Vietnam, because of all the controversy of this war(Red Scare). The Cuban Missile Crisis, would occur after the Korean war and shortly before the first US soldiers would touch down in Vietnam. Fidel Castro seized power of Cuba in 1959 becoming a communist country in league with the soviet union. Skip forward to October, 14,1962 an american U2 Spy plane is flying high above Cuba when photographs of Cuba reveal Soviet medium range ballistic missiles are being placed on the island aimed toward the US with capability of crippling our country. This caused a scrambling in the US of soldiers, naval vessels and the arming of nuclear missiles. Kenedy processed the situation and called for a blockade of Cuba forcing a retaliation of Soviet Ships, but one never came. Eventually after several days of tension John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, the soviet leader, resulted in removal of the missiles and standoff that would not end till the Cold …show more content…

People even today do not trust the government, because their fathers and their fathers were scared at a government constantly searching for a ghost, destroying families and friends lives along the way. If this isn't a good enough incentive to lose trust, how about the corrupt affairs that occurred during this, such as Watergate scandal which could have been so devastated to Nixon’s career that he retired from office, becoming the only president to ever resign from office.The year following would cause a mistrust of the government by the American people and for the years to follow. ( Red Scare).
The fear caused by the cold war is most similar to the current war on terrorism. Similar to Cold War, terrorism is something that is very difficult to fight and when it strikes it can be very devastating. While communism is the more developed of the two, terrorism has similar effects, however both influence the culture creating fear. Today 75 percent of americans consider terrorism as one of if not the most problematic issues in the world today, proving that just as communism was on the minds of former america's terrorism is affecting them in the same way,(Jones Jerry ,Carroll,

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