How Did The United States Prevent The Cold War?

After World War 2 the United States moved from an isolationist policy to a policy of engagement. The United States of realize that in order to prevent the expansion of Communism it would need to have a more active engagement. Potsdam would be the final time that Stalin and Truman would cooperate for a long time. The struggle between these two superpowers that believe their own economic and political systems were superior to the others would become known as the Cold War, a decade-long struggle for technological and ideological Supremacy. The Cold War was fought with a variety of weapons including Espionage and surveillance, propaganda, formation of alliances, political assassinations and many others. The Cold War was an arms race between both countries to build up the greatest stockpile of nuclear
At the end of World War II the Soviet Union had control of the northern half of Korea while the United States had control of the Southern half. The Soviet Union had displayed little interest in invading the southern part of Korea but was not the same opinion as Northern leaders. Northern leaders in Korea wish to unify the northern and southern for peninsulas under communist rule and an early 1950s Ellen gave permission to North Korea's leader to invade South Korea. Stalin provided weapons and Military advisers to North Koreans helping to invade South Korea. The Korean conflict was the first major test to the United States new foreign policy of containment in Asia. The UN Security Council called upon its members to help South Korea defeat these invading forces and Truman ordered US military forces into South Korea to create a defensive line. The goal was to drive the North Korean army out of South Korea but also to destroy communism in North Korea. Mid 1951 the UN forces finally pushed North Korean and the Chinese forces that join them back across the 38th parallel line and this is when peace talks