Although the United States didn’t get along with most of the foreign countries in WWII, the U.S. interacted and intervened in the cold war from 1945-1989 by helping the foreign grow. They help them grow by giving them money and helping them when in need. In the first “cold” war, the US and the Soviet Union were divided and the US wanted everybody to be communist and will help anyone who wanted to be in that type of government. There was a political cartoon made about the American response to the Cuban revolution in 1959. It should the shape of Cuba surrounded by these wired gates that has the United States flag on it, (Document 4). Since Cuba changed their government to become communist, the US gate in the cartoon represent that they are protecting Cuba from any danger and that shows that US is helping Cuba. With the US and the Soviet Union being divided, that means that Korea itself was split where the Soviet Union was in the north, and the United States was in the south. President Lyndon Johnson had comments about south Vietnam in April 1965. He talked how it’s always been the United States that helped South Vietnam and how the US have “Helped to build, and we have helped to defend,” (Document 5). With the president saying that they help south vietnam build and defend shows that US is helping them when in need and need defending. By protecting a country from danger, and helping them grow as a country shows the United States helping the country when in need