The Cold War Between Britain, France and Russia

Running head: THE COLD WAR
The Cold War
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THE COLD WAR1
With the end of the Second World War and the redrawing of the map of Europe to
divide the continent among the victorious powers, Britain, France and Russia, the Cold
War surfaced itself on the forefront. It was a war of nerves and ideological positions
between the US Bloc and the USSR Bloc. Britain and France chose to side with USA as
they championed Capitalism, and had divided western part of Germany amongst
themselves. USSR on the other hand was allowed to have its foothold in the eastern part
of Germany and the entire range of countries falling to the eastern part of Europe, which
came under the grip of communist ideological stronghold. The ideological tensions
between the former allies had heightened itself in the Yalta Conference when the rift
between USSR and USA was clearly demonstrated over the former’s preference for
socialistic ideas and of the latter for capitalistic ideas. The situation had escalated itself to
its height when this rift started exerting its influence in other parts of the world beyond
the continent of Europe in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In order to demonstrate each
other’s superordinance, both the blocs tried to bring the countries of the third world under
the control of its ideological position. Vietnam, in South East Asia was one such country
which became a hot bed of ideological and armed conflict between the communist forces
of the country under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, and the intervention of the US army
to establish capitalism therein. The results of the Vietnam War had proven to be
disastrous for USA and Capitalism, and victorious for Communism and Ho Chi Minh
(Shi and Tindall).
It makes every sense to say that the US Military despite being more equipped
militarily than the Vietnamese army had to face defeat. The reason can be attributed to
the knowledge of the Vietnamese Communist Army about the topography of the country