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The 1950s was the first full decade of the Cold War. The United States were the leader of the West and one of the two superpowers confronting each other diplomatically, ideologically and militarily. The Soviet Union got its first atomic bomb in 1949, but the US was militarily more powerful still in the 1950s; it had developed more nuclear weapons that the USSR.
In 1950s, the Korean War erupted after the invasion of the South by the communist North. Washington, following its doctrine of containment of the Soviet Union and its ideology, got involved and sent troops as a United Nations mission to support South Korea to stop and expel the aggressors. Communist China sent its troops , too, to fight with their North Korean comrades. The Soviet Union sent weapons and ammunitions. The war went on until 1953, when an armistice was signed.
Besides, Washington supported the Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan and confronted the communist government of Beijing, led by Chairman Mao Zedong.
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