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After World War II america had a vision of the world, a vision in which democracy should be practiced, to guarantee the freedom of everybody. As forcommunism, did not meet the visions of America, it became a great threat to the hopes of having a democratic atmosphere.

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What was the reason why Vietnam and America were fighting?

Stop communist aggression.


What where people who called America a communist Country called?

figure it out yuorself


What was the purpose of huac?

HUAC, the House Un-american Activities Committee, was supposed to protect America from subversion. In practice, it conducted ill-conceived witch-hunts and accomplished nothing useful.


Who were the communists in the Vietnam War?

America and several coalition forces like Britain didnt approve of the Russians spreading Communism. Back then, France owned the southern half of Vietnam and the northern half was Communist. When the north invaded the south America joined the war to try to stop Vietnam from becoming an all Communist country. As we now know today that didn't work out and Vietnam along with it's communist fighters, the Viet Kong took control of Vietnam.


Was there a communist threat to America?

yes... John Foster Dulles came up with the domino theory which basically said that if one country fell to communism then the countries next to that would fall, and so on. America was worried that if the countries in southeast Asia, such as Vietnam, fell to communism then they would too. (However, china had fallen to communism but it hadn't affected any of its neighbours so this was a flaw in the theory). Also, America didn't want southeast Asia to become communist because they needed to still have access to the raw materials and markets there, but they wouldn't be able to if the area became communist.

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Is cuba and Peru the only communist state in latin America?

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