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I can see where people thought the domino theory was effective because once one country fell to communism most the other countries around it would fall to it as well.

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Diem was a horrible choice, in many ways far worse than Ho Chi Minh. His people hated him and eventually assassinate him.

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The US paid 80% of the French war effort in Indochina that is insane.

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Anyone that wanted some sort of change in their country was automatically know as a Communist. I think since that even speaking of change or the idea of it put a label on someone quickly.

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The CIA did some very bad things during the 50's and 60's. The US would come to regret many of these actions over time.

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I think we should have stopped making them because of how dangerous they were

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The term communism began to be overused and misused. Describing any country that wishes to change.

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I wonder for how long ago they made up man of the year.

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I find it a little humorous that Godzilla came about because of nuclear items

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It's crazy how many things they were going make and use atomic energy for.

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Even though we understood the danger of nuclear weapons, I think we didn't stop producing and testing them because it gave us a sense of power.

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Truman's speech was very inspirational to a lot of people, it was a pretty big speech at this time also.

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Was the cold war the main thing that helps the US have so many updates of weapons? WAs it like a competition on who could have the biggest weaponed?

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The FBI must have taken the communist very serious being the had around 1,500 informants pretending to be communists.

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I cant believe they thought it was gonna come to this

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His speech was so inspirational
to people at this time.

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It was very clever that the FBI would search places then blame it on Communists.

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truman's speech had to be inspiring to many people at the time.

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To me, Harry S. Truman is one of the greatest presidents of all time because he didn't tell people what they wanted to hear. He told them the truth, what was really going to happen. He wasn't afraid of anything, when he was in office he gave America the feeling that we were the greatest country in the world.

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It is interesting how the two respected each other. I would have thought that it would have been a negative for him running for president, but I suppose many thought that their friendship would help stop the Cold War.

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I wander if Truman ever regretted firing Macarthur. He was one of the best and maybe America could have had a better impact during this time period, forced to retreat by a much smaller and ill-equipped Chinese militia.

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Its interesting how they though that WWIII was coming, Kind of makes me reminisce of current times

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Why did they not call it ww3 but the cold war?

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The testing site of the first one. I had heard that is was destroyed but I never knew it burned for 6 hours

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The Outer Space Treaty states that it is illegal for countries to place weapons of that nature in space. Of course, the Geneva Convention made it illegal to use chemical weapons, and we saw how well that worked out.

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Looks like Ike took his quote to heart. Except we spoke loudly and carried a big stick. "Softly" isn't really our strong suit.

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The launch of the sputnik was a major event at this time. The soviets were the first ones to make it to space.

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They beat us to space. Of course, we had to beat them to the moon. And we did. 'Merica.

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I dont beilvee they all wanted to have this war

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All these leader seem like there best friends and act like they don't hate each other at all.

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Vietnam seems like such a pointless war. Why fight a war with no support from the population.

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Was Africa just not involved in anything, because I never hear about them

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From what I've heard, Vietnam was a massive crap show, topping it off with a conflict that we shouldn't have been in. But communism, right? Can't let that stuff happen. Truthfully, I see what they were trying to do and it has an air of nobility to it. We just stayed a lot longer than we should of.

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Diem=bad call, let to Vietnam conflict. He made communism look good.

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the CIA got involved in many nations, using dissidents to get what they wanted. It backfired many times. It also violates most of our foreign policies.

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The oil was very important at this time

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The Oil was now going to be able to flow West again. After time they were able to get the oil back on track toward the way it should be.

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Fuel so good, it's to die for.

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Like scorched earth and completely annihilating any life in an area, civilian or not? When was having a conscience considered taboo?

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Eisenhower has to make a lot of important decisions when he is put in sticky situations.

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is a weapon that we can see being used here. Hardly any soviet presence in the United States, and yet people were going mad at the thought of being converted into commies. They make it seem like a disease of sorts.

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Was the most influential man in America for a number of years. He had information on everyone and blackmailed a great many important people. He was not a man to attack, which many learned to their dismay.

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He seems like he is trying to stir up the american people by just throwing out whatever he thinks will get them upset. Way too paranoid to be a politician.

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Publicly wanting to utilize atomic bombs seems almost moronic. Why would you threaten a superpower with something as powerful as a nuke? I mean, I'm glad it worked, but there were so many downsides had they called our bluff.

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Was it really as bad as it is being "advertised" to us? They make it seem like you'd be spending weeks in the gulag for a loaf of bread. Surely after Stalin died it got better, right?

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You'd think that Eisenhower being so close with russia would be a negative during his political campaign.

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