To be sure, not everyone was happy with these arrangements. There were, after all, those left out of the benefits of Yalta – the Third World as a whole, the least favored groups within the western world and the Soviet satellite states of East/Central Europe who endured their yoke but did not celebrate it. Those left out erupted with some regularity, and on occasion with particular force: China in 1945–8, Vietnam, Algeria, Hungary in 1956, Cuba and southern Africa. These successive eruptions posed problems for the US world order and, indeed, for the Soviet Union as well. But they were like punches to the stomach of a strong boxer; the punches could be absorbed, and they were. The big exception was the Vietnam war, which began to bleed the USA, both in terms of finance and lives lost, and therefore in terms of US national morale.