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…, directed, supplied, and controlled by the Communist regime in Hanoi. This flagrant aggression had been going on for years, but the pace has quickened and the threat had become acute. The war in Vietnam was a new kind of war, a fact that was poorly understood…

…, especially China. This is the first time Australia has felt Asian countries as a threat. Australia was also influenced the fear of communism. When China became communist in 1949, they feared that as the most populated country in the world, they would spread…

…of the Vietnam War was to prevent Communism from taking hold in that country. Many at the time believed that if Vietnam became Communistic, so too would the rest of the region. When we left, the country fell to the Communist party. However, advancements in military…

…"Red Azalea" is an autobiographical account of the main character Anchee. "Red Azalea" takes place in Communist China during the times of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Anchee is the oldest of the four kids in her family. Anchee's parents work all day…

…and the Young Communist League were set up to encourage communist ideas. These actions taken by the government earned a large amount of sympathy from most peasants, soldiers, women and children. During the period 1918 to 1924, the Bolsheviks encountered rising…

…was probably the biggest event that happened in the 50's. It was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Finally a peace agreement was signed in Korea to end the Korean war. McCarthyism is where people blamed other people of being communists. This took…

…employs the tropes of the horse and the airplane to convey these larger themes, while at the same time using them to comment upon the complex relationship that exists between the Spaniards - Fascists and Communists, alike - and religion. Through a close reading…

…the party, becoming in April 1922 the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Following Lenin's death on January 21st, 1924, Stalin, still the General Secretary, build up this post to be the most powerful in the country. Stalin delivered the eulogy, had…

…independent territories each had their own system of administration, vastly different in their beliefs, governing each of their 'nations' population. Between 1954 and 1970, the North's Ho Chi Minh, a communist, and the South's Ngo Dinh Diem, 'a pro-democratic…

…As promulgated in 1947 by one of its chief architects, George Kennan, the policy of containment fashioned a strategy to deal with the implacable challenge posed by Soviet Communists (Kennan, 582). Because of their ideology and history, the Soviets were…