Containment (Communism, Korean War, Vietnam War)
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A Cold War story
The 20th century
US and Western Europe face off against the Soviet Union
Had an agreement
But Stalin changed it
Now this Iron Curtain
Is pulled across the Communist nations
Truman vows containment yea with troops and some money
Germany is now split into the east and the west
While McCarthy in the states uncovering the Communist Party
The Red Scare plants a fear of losing Democracy
With Communism on the rise
McCarthy’s list comes alive
And helps contain it here
While we charge right up with the Truman Doctrine
And become the World Police
To stop this spreading disease
This containment is for our survival
After World War 2,
The winners knew
To divide Korea half and half at the 38th parallel
North with Stalin
To share in common
His communistic talkin’
Yea North wanted the Southern part too
The US said, this wont spread
The Doctrine will justify
So MacArthur sends troops of men
In a Korean War
It’s Stalemate at 38 – Korea Divided
But it proved that the US had containment belief
Fast forward to the falling of the Berlin Wall
Yea containment made the Soviets fall
In the 1960s we have Vietnam
Split across the 17th - parallel
Sounds so familiar
The North was communist
And forced elections
Then guerilla Vietcong attacked the southern populations
The US said, this wont spread
The Doctrine will justify
Our peaceful troops escalate while war is dividing
The Tet Offensive devastates
Chase us to Saigon
Nixon pulls out and communism prevails