Communist expansion into China, Korea and Vietnam led to the Cold War's most destructive and prolonged "hot wars". Both Korea and Vietnam started to turn against its own country to split into two. Thats why today we have not just Korea, but North Korea and South Korea. To save Vietnam, US troops intervened and hoped to stop a communist victory. In the end, Vietnam united their country under communist control by 1975. Our efforts had failed.
The United States started to emerge as the "superpower of the west" from 1945-1975. WWII and the Cold War gave the US a chance to take over what had been Britain's previous role. The United States was shipping off it's soldiers to various countries around the world. By 1970, the US had more than 1,000,000 soldiers in 30 different countries, was a member of four regional defense alliances and an active participant in a fifth and much more. Along with United State's dominating military, political, economical power, their popular culture was expanding rapidly. American rock and roll was becoming a big hit. By the 1990's, American movies took about 70 percent of the markets in Europe and there were 20,000 McDonald's restaurants in 100 countries. Brand names such as Kleenex, Coco Cola, Jeep, Spam, Nike and Kodak started being used worldwide as well as words like "groovy", "crazy" and "cool".
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