arms race
restoring the shah to power in Iran
the u.s. signed a treaty with south Korea to stop the spread of communism in the far east. if aisa falls to communism, the rest will fall to communism.
Covert military actions or covert military aid
To prevent the spread of communism.
The US. adopted a policy of containment towards the spread of Communism. Which in summary means that the US. exercised a policy to stop the Communism movement from spreading into new countries and to contain it where it was at the time.
The purpose of SEATO was to block further communist gains in southeast Asia.
A takeover of South Korea placed the air and sea space or Japan in danger. This was a situation that the Western powers could not accept or tolerate. ---- Answer The US and other Western powers feared a "domino effect"--that is, the gradual, but definite conversion of Asian countries to Communism. In response, the US enacted a policy containment that aimed to prevent the spread of Communism. Communist North Korea's invasion of noncommunist South Korea presented a threat--another Asian country in the hands of Soviet Union's Communism. Had North Korea succeeded in unifying the Korean peninsula and establishing a communist society, more Asian countries would have been more apt to adopt communism, which could lead to the world domination of communism, which is what the U.S. containment policy hoped to prevent.
The USA was trying to stop the spread of Communism in southeast Asia.
Prevent the spread of Communism
Prevent the spread of Communism
Prevent the spread of Communism
containment