In this lecture, Dr. Totten argues that flashpoints across the globe confirmed the perspective of Americans that there was a global monolithic communist threat to the free world. Americans confronted the Soviets in Berlin and the North Koreans in the Korean War. Despite the Korean War resulting in a stalemate, it confirmed that war could occur without the usage of atomic weapons.

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