Containing Communism
China
North Vietnam
Domino Theory
Effective
Effective
Not effective
What was it? How many wars did we get involved with due to Communism?
Not Effective
North Korea
Effective
Not Effective
The US brought troops over to South Korea to fight against North Korea
U.S and the USSR agreed on making a temporarily border line called the 38th parallel
Didn't stop communism but it wasn't spread more throughout the countries
North Korea is still not capitalist
North Vietnam stayed communist
North Vietnam won the war and successfully invaded South Vietnam
The United States gave troops to South Vietnam
China automatically became communist
We got involved in two wars because the communist sides always invaded
The domino theory stated that if one capitalist country fell into communism such as South Korea or South Vietnam, other countries like Poland and Czech would follow and do the same.
The US did not prevent China from going communist