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: A massive attack by the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army on virtually every town and city in the south took place in January 1968 during a holiday known as TET. The orthodox theory suggests that the Ho Chi Minh and North Vietnamese government had become convinced that the Americans were so unpopular that the peasants were ready to rise up and drive them out. ... read more. Conclusion
This was a failure of containment, as their missile sites in Turkey were for defense against communism. Before the Cuban missile crisis the USSR had no missiles near to the USA whereas the USA has missiles close to the USSR, in Turkey. 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.