Complete overveiw

The Cold War was fought between two former allies, Russia (USSR) and The United States. Throughout the WWII, the two allies supported and helped each other. After the war, they were still close but when threats of communism and nuclear power were heard, the two allies quickly became enemies. The Soviet Union supported communism as a government and the United States strongly disagreed. We were scared of the "domino" effect, or that everyone would see communism as a better government and turn against us. Containment was the only other option the United States could think of. Soon, China turned communist and all hope for that country was lost. General MacArthur, the nations "hero", believed we should drop atomic bombs on China and show everyone that we were serious about exterminating communism. Korea was our next attack. Kim Il Sung, the communist leader, was fighting for communism. South Korea was all for nationalism, but North Korea had other plans. North Koreans only wanted communism. North Koreans stormed down on South Korea and drove them to the small part of Korea called Pusan. With the help of MacArthur, the South Koreans got there land back. Although MacArthur was a good military leader he was speaking out of term in office and was soon fired by Truman. The US didn't take this well but got over it.