Title: A Cold War conflict
Headings: Cold War conflict
Cold War conflict
Contents
What was the Cold War?
Origins of the Cold War
Anti-communist hysteria
Tensions in the post-war world
The Truman Doctrine
Containment
China changes everything

Content: A Cold War conflict
Cold War conflict
Cold War propaganda depicting the ‘red tentacles smothering Asia’. The Vietnam War unfolded amidst the Cold War, a long period of international rivalry that spanned two generations. The political and ideological divisions of the Cold War shaped attitudes and policies towards Vietnam, its groups and leaders. Contents
1 What was the Cold War? 2 Origins of the Cold War
3 Anti-communist hysteria
4 Tensions in the post-war world
5 The Truman Doctrine
6 Containment
7 China changes everything
What was the Cold War? Between 1946 to the early 1990s, the world was strongly divided between two competing power blocs: capitalist democracies led by the United States and western Europe, and communist states led by the Soviet Union and Maoist China. The Cold War created an atmosphere of tension, suspicion and paranoia. In the West, people were conditioned to think of communism as an evil menace bent on taking over the world and imposing totalitarian rule. Citizens in communist states were taught that Western nations were ruled by greedy imperialists who exploited workers.