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…became chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and virtual dictator; Trotsky, Stalin, and Rykov were the other chief members. The Bolsheviks (who became the Communist party) asserted that the October Revolution had established a proletarian dictatorship…

…. This is a policy of the United States, not the UN. One of the members of the UN was the former Soviet Union. It was a communist state, thus it is impossible for the UN to want to contain communism. We must also look at the successes of the UN. The UN had fared better…

…played a major role. He was commander and chief of the red army, which fought on the side of the communists. As a much experienced and brave commander he won many battles against the white armies through smart tactics and keeping the moral of his troops high…

…not like the idea of colonies. The major reason American would not help Ho Chi Minh, however, was because he was communist, and all Americans knew that a communist could never do anything good. After France fled Vietnam (wow that's a surprise) and America…

…for Ho Chi Minh, a communist, to take over easily. In the Battle of Dien Bien Phu, 1954, 16,000 French troops were either killed or captured by the Viet Minh. It convinced the French government to leave Indochina as soon as possible. It was like handed…

…social and political opposition between the United States and Cuba happened because of the fact that Cuba had become communist with the aid of the USSR. At this time, to the United States, communism was seen as the enemy. Cuba was essentially a puppet state…

…of associating with or being communist. McCarthyism succeeded in separating left-wing ideas (and their long history in the working class movements) from American Society. Truman passed the loyalty Act in 1947 which forced government workers to sign anti-communist…

…occurred. After deliberation among Communist party leaders, the use of military force to resolve the crisis was ordered, and Zhao Ziyang was ousted from political leadership as a result of his support for the student demonstrators. The Communist Party…

…. However, the North was led by a nationalist, Ho Chi Minh, and the US viewed this conflict as communism versus the free world. It was similar to the Korean War, with a communist, Kim Il Sung, in the North and Syngman Rhee in the South. The US sent its troops…

…split, due to ideological and territorial matters, caused China and the Soviet Union to develop better relationships with America, rather than between each other. Meetings between America and the two communist superpowers China and the Soviet Union occurred…