Why was the United States so interested in preventing communism in the former Belgian Congo?

Constituting a series of civil wars, the Congo Crisis was also a proxy conflict in the Cold War, in which the Soviet Union and the United States supported opposing factions. ... A nationalist movement in the Belgian Congo demanded the end of colonial rule: this led to the country's independence on 30 June 1960.

The Congo Crisis of the early 1960s served as a satellite conflict between the

United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Scholars have argued about

U.S. motivations and interests involved in the Congo Crisis. The major division between

scholars is between those who contend the United States acted for national security

reasons and those scholars who argue the United States desired to establish a neocolonial

regime to protect economic interests pertaining to vast Congolese mineral wealth. The

argument of this thesis is that the United States policy in the Congo between 1960 and

1965 focused on installing a friendly regime in the Congo in order to protect its national

security interests. This argument lends to the introduction of a new term to classify U.S.

actions: pseudocolonialism. The previous term, neocolonialism, denotes a negative

connotation based on economic greed and does not satisfactorily explain the motivations

of the United States. By examining the value to the United States of Congolese uranium

and cobalt as well as Congolese geographic location, the singular explanation of

economic greed is weakened.

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the option which was not a function of missionaries in the northwest was the first one - they established posts for trading furs and other goods.

missionaries were sent around the world to spread religion and their knowledge and others - they were not merchants who sold furs and other goods.