Comparing The Cold War And The Vietnam War

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The Cold War began approximately 40 years before Reagan’s address on March 12, 1947. The Cold War was a time of conflict between differing political ideals : communism and democracy. Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union attempted to spread communism to other countries around the world, and the United States tried to fend off its forces and contain communism in the countries it had already taken over. Different battles, such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War, were products of this conflict between the two regions. The Cold War was still underway during Reagan’s speech until the Soviet Union started crumbling under economic struggles and eventually fell in 1991, a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The speech put tremendous