Survival of Authoritarian Regime in Philippine and Malaysia

The Cold War was the name given to the political economic, military and ideological contention that occurred between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and their allies after World War II. The two forces never directly engaged in military activity in light of the fact that both had atomic weapons that if utilized, might have had crushing outcomes for both sides. Instead, proxy wars were battled. A proxy war results when contradicting forces utilize outsiders as substitutes for battling each one other and is ordinarily launched by a power that does not itself partake. The Korean and Vietnam wars are two examples of proxy wars on the grounds that the U.S. and the Soviet Union did not directly engage one another however, Soviet endeavors to spread and bring together both Korea and Vietnam under communist rule provoked mediation either by the United States and/or by their allies. These two occasions were simply a few of the impacts of the Cold War in Asia. This paper will examine each war individually and in more detail and endeavor to persuade that the Korean and Vietnam Wars were the immediate aftereffects of Soviet endeavors to expand communist influence in Asia and the United States and their allies' approach of forestalling and holding such endeavors.

The U.S. Cold War began shortly after WW II. The two world superpowers, the Soviet Union and the U.S., wanted to spread their own form of government. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism to the “satellite nations” under its control, while the U.S. wanted to spread democracy to the newly created zones in Europe. NATO was created by North American countries to deter the Soviet Union from attempting to invade Western Europe. In retaliation to the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact with its Eastern satellite nations. Both alliances were created to deter the other from trying to influence nations under their spheres of influences, and during the Cuban Missile

Cold war was one of the reasons why Australian went to war in Vietnam, Americans and the Russians were competing as who was the super power. Cold war began in 1945 to 1991; it was about arms, race, building ammunition to become powerful in the eyes of the world. Cold war as although there were many small or localised conflicts, none actually drew the large powers into full scale war. It was mainly involved by the people of untied states of America and its allies against the Soviet Union and its allies. There was fierce completion between the two allied groups for influence and power. There were threats for the cold war to be broken out into hot war with the fear that atomic missiles would be

After the World War 2 between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc, the relationship developed primarily between the USA and USSR; eventually leading up to a war called the Cold War. Although the Cold War was between the United States and the Soviet Union; ultimately, the Cold War was mainly caused by the USSR because of Stalin’s dominating behavior, the USSR’s military and territory expansion, and USSR’s aim of spreading world communism or USSR’s dislike of capitalism.

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After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two new superpowers and as archrivals. The United States wanted to keep the Soviet Union from spreading communism by force so the United States came up with a plan of containment, which was to block the Soviet Union wherever possible to contain the spread of communism therefore beginning the Cold War. (Davidson et al., 2005)

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Although modernization was not perfect there were many countries that benefited from U.S. help. In fact countries such as India, Ghana, and Egypt embraced the help of the U.S. America’s assistance. With all three countries U.S.’s support in empowering their economic growth was successful. Although modernizations was to help these underdeveloped countries the primary gaol of the U.S. is to decimate the prevalence of communism. American policy makers for foreign affairs “viewed many postcolonial leaders as politically immature and unprepared for self-determination, they exercised little restraint in trying to undermine governments

At the end of World War 2, the Allied Powers were faced with a very difficult decision. The USSR, was unlike the other countries in the alliance. It was a communist country with a totalitarian dictatorial ruler. Stalin went to seize large parts of Eastern Europe, and China, North Korea and many other countries followed in Stalin's model. Of course, communism was becoming a dangerous force that spread like wildfire. How the West dealt with containing the black hole, that was communism at the time, was to help non-communist countries strengthen themselves. The spread of Communism in East Asia made having an eastern ally very important for the U.S . General Douglas MacArthur set forth a mission to make non-communist Japan a stable ally to the U.S.

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Schedler argues that authoritarian regimes – particularly since the end of the Cold War era have been replaced by electoral authoritarian regimes that combine the façade of electoral democracy with systemic abuse of democratic procedures. They have reproduced institutional arrangements present in the democratic system, such as elections, the legislative and judicial powers, and independent local governments. However, these institution creations are never meant to become autonomous, rather manipulative in order to be instruments of pretentious delegation of power from the executive.

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