Cold War Tensions in China

The Americans were fighting in Korea during the end of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War when the Japanese had invaded China. This caused the Nationalist and Communist from China to shift back to their own homeland to try to get these foreign people in their country out and back to their own. China’s leaders were Mao Zedong (communist) and Chiang Kai-shek (nationalist). Chiang Kai-shek was from south China and well supported by the United States though when the U.S military came into encounterment with him they saw a different man. They saw he wasn’t as nice as the United States had shown him to be, but that he was kind of corrupt when ruling. Mao Zedong was the other ruler from northern China. Zedong was the communist who held propaganda campaigns about national liberation. Most of the country fell into the support of Mao Zedong’s idea of communism because the natives felt he was doing more to help their country then Kai-shek was doing. China had finally gotten the Japanese out that had invaded, but issues still existed within the Chinese government. After many disagreements the communist government won which forced the nationalist to leave, but also hurt the United Stated because Truman was blamed for “losing” and not giving enough support to the Nationalist.

The Cold War Summary

1939 the start of the Cold War, a war between the two ultimate countries of the United States of America and the Soviet Union with later spreading to Africa, Latin America, and Asia. A war is a pretty big thing to talk about so you are probably asking why did the whole war start in the first place. The whole conflict between the counties was because the Soviet Union was trying to spread their belief of communism through political and economical ways. The disagreements in ruling left the two countries in more then a little heated augment, we found our selves next in a series of battle and start of Cold War. This left America's president Harry S. Truman in a situation he wanted to act upon fast. Truman proposed an idea called the Truman Doctrine. This document was made to show that we the United States were against communism and would try to stop it from spreading all across Europe. We believed in this Doctrine so much that we sent money over to Turkey and Greece to help stop the communist from taking over. This left the second world war to really take its start and and travel to a sequel of events that live in history forever...