Title: Explain the USAs policy of containment. How successful was this in Korea, Vietnam and Cuba? - International Baccalaureate History - Marked by Teachers.com
Headings: Explain the USAs policy of containment. How successful was this in Korea, Vietnam and Cuba?
Explain the USAs policy of containment. How successful was this in Korea, Vietnam and Cuba?
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Content: After the crisis neither side had such missiles. Thus the USSR had lost nothing whereas the US had lost its missiles in Turkey. Further examples of why the policy of containment failed in Cuba, is because after the crisis USSR was still allied with Cuba and Cuba remained communism. So in this area American had failed to prevent the spread of communism and furthermore Kennedy had to promise to never interfere with Cuba again so this meant that American would not be able to regain any control or get rid of Castro as it had set out to do before the crisis. In some aspects containment here could be seen as a success as although they were unable to prevent Cuba becoming communist, the USA was able to maintain its hegemony as neighboring countries who were previously thinking of turning communist stepped down as they realized that USA would try and do something against this. In conclusion it is clear that in all three areas the USA?s policy of containment failed as each country remained communist after each incident. However it is clear that each time the USA was able to achieve some positive aspect in respect to its policy of containment. It is evident that its policy of containment was particularly put to test in the Cuban missile crisis because it was a direct communist threat to USA?s national security, yet the Vietnam War and Korean War was fought just for the name of containment and to merely stop the spreading of communism. ... read more. The above preview is unformatted text
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