NATO
After WW II, in the era of the Cold War, the defensive military alliance was (and remains) NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
NATO - the greatest influence in this alliance was the US. Most of West Europe was in NATO Warsaw Pact - led by the USSR. Most of east Europe was in this alliance.
During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in the latter part of the Cold War, bin Laden was (amazingly enough) an ally of the US, and received US military aid to help him oppose the Soviet invasion.
The US Congress passed laws limiting the activity of the Communist Party in the US, in reaction to Cold War tensions. The Cold War lasted from 1945 to 1991.
Nato
NATO
Part of the cold war.
Part of the cold war.
After WW II, in the era of the Cold War, the defensive military alliance was (and remains) NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
NATO - the greatest influence in this alliance was the US. Most of West Europe was in NATO Warsaw Pact - led by the USSR. Most of east Europe was in this alliance.
No countries really 'entered' the Cold war, this was not an official 'declared' war. It was so called because of the opposing ideology of the Soviet system and the democratic western countries who made up the NATO Alliance. France was part of NATO until 1966 and then left.
Part of the cold war.
It should have been, but it was not.The Cold War started soon after WW2.
To fight communism; part of the cold war.
During the Cold War era, the only US objective in southeast Asia was to prevent nations from becoming communist. It was felt at the time (incorrectly) that all communist nations were necessarily part of a global, anti-American alliance.
What started out as a civil war escalated into a spinoff of the Cold War as North Korea (China) and South Korea( The US ) were supported by these external powers.