Cold War Summary

My Superpower is the USA because we are in a democracy. The Cold War was a war between the USA and the USSR. They were the only superpowers after World War 2. This war included wars inside of it, like the Chinese War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The main point of the war was for USA to stop the spread of communism to Russia's satellite nations. The War lasted from about 1945 to the early 1990's. One of the biggest symbols of this war was the Berlin Wall. It kept Western Europe from becoming communist. The US was trying to contain China from becoming communist, For the Chinese War, Mao Zedong drove out Chiang Kai-Shek who went to Taiwan. Truman was blamed for losing China to communism. For the Korean War, we helped out South Korea since they were losing to the Communist North Korea. That war ended in a stalemate but Americans were very unhappy that we were in that war in the first place. The main fighters in this war was the superpowers, USA with Truman and Eisenhower as president and then there was Joseph Stalin who lead the USSR.