Throughout the Cold War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, the main issue was communism. Although the United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, during the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were known as enemies. Soviet leaders boasted to other nations that communism would “destroy” free enterprise systems around the world. This attitude angered the capitalists, leading to the fifty years of the Cold War. The United States tried to create many tactics and strategies to stem the "bleeding" of communism, but during the Cold War, communism spread faster than it could be contained. The United States used the Marshall Plan, the Trueman Doctrine, and the Berlin Airlift to help lead people toward a capitalist form of government. Before the United States intervened in the Cold War, various domestic policies were “scattered around the United States” (Doc. 7). There were two main groups, the “Hawks” and the “Doves”. The “Hawks” wanted to finish what they had started and continue trying to contain communism. While the “Doves” wanted it ...