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History The Cold War Revision (An evaluation of the reasons for the…

- - - - A- low morale due to the climate A- difficult terrain gave the vietcong the advantage A- More deaths led to low morale and lack of faith from US soldiers
        
        A+ general westermore believed that the US would have won the war if they had deployed all of their troops earlier than they did
  - - - A- believed there was a lack of faith from their own home land
        
        A+- there was still a large amount of faith from US supporter though they didn't voice their opinin
  - - - A- This offensive resulted in an increase in volunteers for the Vietcong. A-The north also had little industry to destroy. A great deal of the military infrastructure was underground or in caves. A- led to high civilian casualties
  - - - A- This show of strength convinced many Americans that the war was ‘unwinnable’,
- - - - A- when truman detonated the atomic bomb he did not inform Stalin this led to increasing distrust of the west from Stalin
  - - - A- caused further distrust and suspicion.
  - - - A-Eventually, nuclear weapons became a deterrent rather than a weapon for use in warfare. The theory of mutually assured destruction (MAD) championed the view that a superpower would not fire its nuclear weapons as the other side would automatically do the same
- - - - A- The US refused to accept the presence of a communist government in Cuba. This only served to push Castro into the arms of the Soviets
  - - - A- When Cuba requested help from the USSR, Khrushchev needed to be seen to be doing something in support of an endangered communist state.