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…the nightmare that it went through. Hitler was economically unable to maintain just by selling drawn pictures of famous landmarks on post cards. He read a paper, which gave him the ideas of blaming the Communists and the Jews for all the problems in the world…

…public. Communists seemed to move with such impunity and so effectively that it took 11,000 American and ARVN troops three weeks to clear Saigon of Communist forces. US officials had realised that there might be few communist supporters in the South of Vietnam…

…was first being performed something was taking place that was very alike the Salem Witch Trials. In Hollywood, the House Un-American Activities Committee was investigating the film industry for communist activities. Actors, writers, and directors were…

…World War II, President Truman committed the United States to a policy of "containment" under which the country would not strike directly at communist powers but instead would seek to halt the spread of communism to new nations. On Friday, February 21, 1947…

…of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) were both fighting for power via the control of other countries. A communist government ran the USSR while the USA was a democratic and capitalist society and both were trying to promote…

…down", and that Germany was in desperate need of help." Therefore, the Allies' aim was to rebuild Germany's economy. The Soviet Union disagreed with this plan immensely, and instead they became busy with setting up Communist dictatorships in their conquered…

…head versus the hydra which has so many heads that it is impossible to watch them all at once. A current popular theory states that NATO could have contained communism without using military forces (assuming that the communist agents would use a revolution…

…, a symbol not only of the division of Germany but of the larger conflict between the Communist and non-Communist worlds. The Wall ceased to be a barrier when East Germany ended restrictions on emigration in November 1989. The Wall was largely dismantled…

…of Cuba, US Missile installations along the Turkey/Soviet border, and the clear anti-Communist policy of the United States. Khrushchev was born in Kalinovka in southwestern Russia. He was raised in a poor family whose income depended solely on the coal mining…

…felt that if Russia's troops would fight for North Korea, we should fight for South Korea. Also, since South Korea had a dictatorship, we wanted to prevent it from becoming communist and remaining a dictatorial form of government. If the communist started…