How Did The Nuclear Arms Race Affect The Vietnam War?

The Cold War was a state of political tension after World War II between the USSR and the United States. The two opposing sides did not have a war that was fought on the battlefield also known as a Hot War because they both have nuclear weapons and too much destruction would have occured. This political struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union centered on many events, such as the Nuclear Arms Race, it affected Vietnam because of the war, which started in 1947, and it ended in 1991 when the Iron Curtain was lifted.
The United States fought Vietnam and Korea but they did not fight the Soviet Union on the battlefield. The leaders involved were President Truman who was the President of the United States and dictator Joseph Stalin
During the Cold War North Vietnam and Viet Cong were fighting so they could unite Vietnam. “The conflict was a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and the United States. Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in French Indochina”(Vietnam War). The Vietnam war was a proxy war meaning that it was a war instigated by a major power and it does not itself become involved. The war started in November 1, 1955 and it ended in April 30, 1975 (Vietnam War). The war took place because North Vietnam threatened to take over South Vietnam which caused the United States to get involved. People disliked the idea of American troops fighting in Vietnam causing “anti-war protests [to] begin almost immediately”(Sheinkin.154). The United States was worried that South Vietnam would become communist because North Vietnam was. Ho Chi Minh felt “confident that a popular vote on the issue of reunification mandated by the armistice, scheduled for July of 1956, would bring a communist victory. The United States, in the meantime, worked with French and South Vietnamese authorities to create a stable government and build an effective South
More than half a million American troops were fighting in it and that was hardly the total cost of America's longest war (Vietnam War). Finally, in Vietnam hundreds and thousands were dead hundreds of thousands more hurt and wounded, civilians were homeless, and starving, the cities were ruined and its village culture was destroyed. In America, involvement in Vietnam always had its negative effects, even President Kennedy, a little before his assassination, in the last television interview he gave, he hinted at a withdrawal of support, stating that South Vietnam would have to fight its own battles (Vietnam War).The Cold War ended in 1991 when some of the Soviet Union became republic and the Iron Curtain was lifted. The Iron Curtain was the name for boundary dividing Europe into two different areas from the end of World War II which was in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991 (Collapse of the Iron Curtain). The European countries involved with the Iron curtain were Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and the Soviet Union which were all communist countries. Winston Churchill, Prime minister of Great Britain was anti-Nazi and anti-communist. Churchill gave an important speech on March 5, 1946 where he spoke about the Iron Curtain and in his speech he made a statement that said “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic,