How can you have a war without bloodshed? The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that developed after World War II. The Cold War started on March 12th, 1947, and ended on December 3rd, 1989. The Soviets and the United States competed for natural resources like oil, allies, influence and prestige, space exploration, and weapons technology which caused threats of nuclear war between the two nations. The main cause of the Cold War was disagreements about the practices of communism versus democracy. The Cold War had a significant impact on domestic policy and society in the United States, citizens suffered the loss of our First Amendment right to freedom of speech and McCarthyism became a big …show more content…
First, Document 4 exclaims the impacts that the war has caused through a graph, The charts and graphs show the increase in spending money on weapons was at its highest at the beginning of the war, While the graphs showed that education was at its lowest at the beginning. The increase in the charts was because the US was in a weapon war with the Soviets. The two were competing to see who could make the most nukes the fastest, this caused the US to prepare in case the Soviets were to attack them. The charts show how the Americans decided that making nukes and weapons and being more advanced was more important, than caring for the well-being of United States citizens. Secondly, the picture in Document 6 states the quote “Hey–Don't forget the Bottom Part, Too” The picture shows the man climbing up the ruins of a building which represents education in America and how it wasn't sought after. After the Soviet Union launched its first satellite, the US was worried that they would be able to bomb them from space, which wasn't true, The US came to realize that they needed better education, they decided to create NASA a complex science program and put more funds into science and education as a
factors that have led the United States to take foreign policy decisions that favor it were the desire for control, power, and capitalist diffusion during the Cold War. In Latin America, as previously explained, the “School of the Americas” and other policies were imposed in order to have access to local power, which would favor the US in the Cold War. According to Terrence Dillon the US couldn’t afford to lose against communism in America. Therefore, the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine were imposed
political ideologies and agendas, set forth to dominate each other in international politics. This period of time, also known as the Cold War, initiated an era of crazed hysteria in the United States as these two governments frequently clashed and bitterly fought. As a result, the frightened public grew delirious as the world grew dangerously close to a calamitous nuclear war, which ultimately prompted the Eisenhower administration to hinder the spread of communism and encourage the U.S. population to
There were many causes to the cold war and there was a lot of tension built because of nuclear bombs and weapons but the biggest was the lack of trust and tension between the United States and the Soviet union. The tension started to build between the US and the Soviet Union when we bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But when the US threatened to bomb russia with a nuclear bomb russia thought it was a bluff but after we did bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki they knew we were dead serious about bombing Russia
After fighting along the United States against Nazi Germany in World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States soon became enemies, locked in the grip of the Cold War with the fear of a nuclear holocaust. Fear was a constant emotion throughout the entirety of the United States, no one knew exactly what was going to happen. The Soviet Union’s leader, Joseph Stalin, believed in communism, in fact the reader can concur that Americans were taught that communism was a bad thing, which worried most