Expansion Of Communism Research Paper

Many world powers are empires seeking to conquer others, reclaim land that was once theirs, and achieve economic and military domination. Merriam Webster defines an empire as “a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority” (Merriam). Conversely, America seeks to create world freedom and peace, rather than world domination. The United States has involved itself in numerous wars in the nineteenth century. At a glance, it can appear that America is an empire seeking to gain control of foreign territory; however, America is not expanding overseas, but instead it is defending world freedom and peace. America has assumed the role of an international defender, fighting

Communism is a society where everything is publically owned and everyone works to benefit the society. It takes away citizens freedoms and simply put, is the opposite of democracy. Beginning as early as the end of World War Two, the United States has actively fought against the oppressive nature of communism. The Truman Doctrine was created, and it states that the United States will prevent the expansion of communism, essentially containing it (Truman). The Truman Doctrine is the reason why America involves itself in foreign affairs. It was predicted that communism cannot survive without expanding; therefore containing communism will defeat it. America engages in the Korean War because the communist north, supported by China and the Soviet Union, attacked the democratic South (Korean War). In order to prevent the spread of communism, the United States and the United Nations defended the democratic South Korea. Similar to Berlin, Americans protected the Korean people from the oppression of communism. Korea was not the only battlefield where Americans have fought against communism, the Vietnam war took place only two years after the conclusion of the Korean War. In the Vietnam War war the United States fought against the communist North, in order to uphold the truman doctrine (Vietnam). The United States fought the vietcong forces for twenty years, proving that America will not concede to communism. Both wars, were fought with the intention to protect the peace and progress of Korea and Vietnam. America feared that if Korea or Vietnam became communist, communism would spread south to the rest of Asia and the Pacific Islands. Therefore, the America was not an empire looking to expand its territory in Asia, but instead it was protecting South East Asia from the control of communism. The Korean War and the Vietnam War took place sixty three and sixtyfive