Truman Administration Policy Changes In East Asia

The cold war in east Asia between the Soviet Union and the United States had its origins in the tensions after the Second World War.The collapse of Nationalist China, upon whose postwar support the United States had counted, was followed by Japan became the key to U.S. policy in east asia. Then, as the Korean War broke out and dragged on without the victory American armys traditionally had won, President Harry Truman and his administration lost popularity. These problem in Asia pressured the administration's diplomatic into a policy of global anticommunism and containment, and resulted confrontation with the new Communist China. This was one cause of the tragic U.S. involvement in southeast Asia, especially in Indochina.Indeed, the events in Asia in the late 1940s and early 1950s were to have a profound impact on American foreign policy for the next two decades.