During the Cold War the threat of communist expansion was ever-present. What country was the United States?

Question

During the Cold War the threat of communist expansion was ever-present. What country was the United States trying to “contain” during this era, and what event nearly lead to nuclear warfare

Answer 1

probably about a dozen countries in Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and South America...it was everywhere over the decades in places like Korea, Congo, Vieetnam, Eastern Europe, Cuba...that's why we had attack submarines and aircraft carriers around the world...I had a friend in submarines in the 70's to 90's...he won't talk to me about the missions they did...the CIA was alive and well.

Answer 2

During the Cold War the USA tried to 'contain' communism wherever it appeared - Korea, Vietnam etc. USSR was their main enemy, although China made a strong claim as leader of the communist world by the 1970s.

The event that probably came closest to bringing the world to nuclear war was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962

Answer 3

We tried to contain Russia and it boiled over into the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 4

The Soviet Union [present day Russia]

Answer 5

Cuba.You are referring to the Cuban missile crisis.

Answer 6

Russia..
Russia putting nuclear missles in Cuba...

Answer 7

I think that it was Cuba and John F Kennedy got shot because of it.

Answer 8

mostly Russia.... near disaster was the bay of pigs w/ cuba. and all "communists and eastern-block countries were the enemy!!!!

Answer 9

the USSR aka "the soviet union"