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It was an American foreign policy with main goal of containing the spread of communist ideals. Communism was perceived as a 'red plague' that would spread and 'consume' countries and destroy their way of life. One of the first largest pushes to involve in other countries affairs.

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US involved in conflict between North and South Korea, on behalf of South Korea; huge death toll, made it clear that the Cold War became a global conflict

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1945 - 1954: Conflicts in Vietnam, and lack of American interference led to independence from the French Asian empire

1954: Geneva Accords enacted that temporarily split Vietnam into North and South.

However, southern leader Ngo Dinh Diem, a strong anti-communist, refused to hold elections which would have led to the north communists winning. America decided to interfere, per the Truman Doctrine, in the south and halt elections.

1961: Eisenhower leaves office but Diem is facing a full-scale guerrilla by the communist-led National Liberation Front.

America starts to intervene more and more, completely changing their anti-intervention ideals prior to the Second World War.

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Kennedy, a young and popular president, was assassinated on November 22

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