The first confrontation of the cold war took place in:
a. vietnam, when the french attempted to reestablish colonial rule.
b. latin america, where agrarian revolutionaries gained the upper hand thanks to soviet aid.
c. north korea, where chinese communists imposed a strict authoritarian regime.
d. japan, when soviet troops tried to establish tokyo as a joint occupational zone.
e. the middle east, when soviet troops occupied northern iran seeking access to oil fields.