Ashford University Wee 4 Vietnam War and Asia Discussion

Week 4 Discussion 1

Option 2: The Cold War Abroad

Watch the 18 Cold War CNN Backyard 1954 1990 (Links to an external site.)video.

Describe how U.S. Cold War strategies such as Containment, the Truman Doctrine, and the Domino Theory impacted one of the following regions:

• Asia
• Latin America

Write an initial post which addresses the following prompts:

• Which region did you chose?
• What policies and events informed U.S. Cold War strategy in this region?
• Describe at least one major U.S. intervention in this region. Some examples might be:
  • The Vietnam War
  • The Coup D’état in Guatemala in 1954
  • The Bay of Pigs attempted invasion of Cuba
  • The Coup D’état in Chile in 1973

(Refer to the Cold War Foreign Policy Background Readings for further background on specific events)

• What impact did this intervention have on the region, and on the history of the Cold War?
• In what way do we see the consequences of this intervention in our own present day?
• 250 words total post