It provided free and safe travel across the Silk Road, it isolated Russia, and helped spread the bubonic plague
During the 1950's, the US had adopted a policy of containment. The goal was to stop the spread of communism on a global scale. This included giving financial and military aid to countries who might fall into the hands of a communist government. A perfect example of this would be South Korea.
During the early 1950's, North Korea (a communist country) invaded South Korea. America, worried about the spread of communism, wanted to ensure that South Korea stayed free of this communist system. To do this, the US helped convince the United Nations to intervene in the conflict between North and South Korea.
Answer: On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. The creation of the PRC also completed the long process of governmental upheaval in China begun by the Chinese Revolution of 1911. The “fall” of mainland China to communism in 1949 led the United States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades.
That's about the time marxism had fully infected the democratic party. More options please