The Cold War Containment policy was a complete bust because we pour money into failing countries so they there economy was strong enough to where they wouldn't have radical thoughts of communism this was referred to as the Truman doctrine and then the Eisenhower doctrine that funded the middle east. Then we went into the police action "war" in Korea so that the domino effect wouldn't allow other nations to fall to communism
It is important because in 1836, during the Texas Revolution, somewhere around 200 rebels including Davy Crockett and James Bowie held out against 1,800 Mexican Soldiers under the command of Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator at the time, for thirteen days.
The Warsaw Pact.
The Warsaw Pact was given that name because the agreement was signed in Warsaw, Poland. Established in 1955, the Warsaw Pact included the <span>Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The nations signing the treaty called on each other to defend of any member of the Pact that was threatened by enemy forces. The formation of the Warsaw Pact was in direct response to the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). </span>
The desert located in Northern Chile bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and to the east by the andes mountains is Atacama Desert!
