Communism
Western nations were prepared to use force to stop the spread of communism.
There is communism in only Five Nations today, China, Vietnam, Cuba, North Korea and Laos.
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Truman Doctrine
The fall of communism in 1990 resulted in independence for the 16 nations which formerly made up the USSR, as well as for many other nations in eastern Europe which were formerly satellite states of the USSR. It also resulted in the breakup of Yugoslavia into 6 separate nations (which was violent in nature) and the breakup of Czechoslovakia into 2 nations (which happened peacefully). And it ended the Cold War.
The cold war was a struggle between Communist Nations and NON-Communist Nations.
The United States would aid all free nations struggling against communism
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to stop Communism.
Western Bloc
Communism (a classless stateless society) will have to be worldwide, with no nations or borders. What was established in Russia in 1917 was state capitalism.