to stop communism
To stop communist aggression.
To prevent the spread of communism
Because of US Policy to fight communism.
'Containing' Communism was a stupid thing the US thought it had to do. The US didn't like Communism, probably because they didn't undesrtand it at all or were afraid it was better than their economic stance, so they said that they had to contain communism by arresting people who supported communism. yeah, freedom of speech and thought...
Both were started because of the US fear of communism.
to stop communism
To stop communist aggression.
The US entered because they signed a document saying that the will help with a war with communism.
it hoped to defeat Communism by preventing its expansion to the other territories.
To prevent the spread of communism
It happened during the cold war because people were scared of communism and its spread across the world. The theme of the cold war was the prevention of the spread of communism, and many people thought that communism was spreading inside the US. The US was extremely paranoid about communism, which led to its involvement in Vietnam and many other wars. In a nut shell, Americans were so paranoid that they thought communism was spreading in their own country.
Basically the entire Cold War. However during the Cold War there were several hot wars which were proxy wars between the superpowers of the time. The US involvement in the Asia (Korea and Vietnam) can be considered wars were the US attempted to stop the spread of Communism. Likewise the US involvement with the Contras in Nicaragua can be considered an attempt to stop the spread of communism.
Fight wars without the use of nuclear weapons; limited wars.
The common answer was to end the spread of Communism into Southeast Asia.
WWI and WWII
The US had hoped to stop the spread of Communism .