Most Significant Events During The Cold War
Most Significant Events
Danielle Wilson
Axia College of University of Phoenix
September 20, 2009
Selecting an event from certain decades is not as easy as it may seem. Some of the decades had more than one event going on but only one had a significant impact on that decade. So the events mentioned will be those who have had a powerful impact culturally, economically and on government policies but those who had an influence here in the United States. The following decades are being put into the light and those are the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and the 90s.
1950’s – The Cold War The Cold War and its ideology which crystallized after WWII had changed the wartime alliances that had existed during the Second World War. The American …show more content…
This organization was made to be a mutual defense pact between the United States, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This improved our relations on an international level because it was peacetime that we were trying to establish. The goals that were set during the Cold War I believe were met but also other goals were met as well like the forming of NATO, the Truman doctrine and the improved relations that we had with most of …show more content…
“Eisenhower was also able to use the communist threat during the Cold War to gain a political consensus about the government 's role in fighting communism” ( WikiAnswers, 2009). “Eisenhower was adamant on keeping the status quo in Washington and did not change many things in the post-WWII America because the economy was so good” (WikiAnswers, 2009). He did not want the economy to suffer so he did not want to change a many aspects in fear that the economy would go down the tubes. The Cold War lasted well into other decades and actually was not over until the 1980s. The United States seemed to carry on even though we were in this war for so long. The Cold war ideology only changed one of our alliances after the Second World War. The communist nation the Soviet Union would prove that peace would be harder then everyone imagined. New Alliances were made and defenses were mutual which brought the nations together to fight if war should ever arise again. But even after all of this the United States came out on top at the end of it all.
1960’s – The Civil Rights
Danielle Wilson
Axia College of University of Phoenix
September 20, 2009
Selecting an event from certain decades is not as easy as it may seem. Some of the decades had more than one event going on but only one had a significant impact on that decade. So the events mentioned will be those who have had a powerful impact culturally, economically and on government policies but those who had an influence here in the United States. The following decades are being put into the light and those are the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and the 90s.
1950’s – The Cold War The Cold War and its ideology which crystallized after WWII had changed the wartime alliances that had existed during the Second World War. The American …show more content…
This organization was made to be a mutual defense pact between the United States, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. This improved our relations on an international level because it was peacetime that we were trying to establish. The goals that were set during the Cold War I believe were met but also other goals were met as well like the forming of NATO, the Truman doctrine and the improved relations that we had with most of …show more content…
“Eisenhower was also able to use the communist threat during the Cold War to gain a political consensus about the government 's role in fighting communism” ( WikiAnswers, 2009). “Eisenhower was adamant on keeping the status quo in Washington and did not change many things in the post-WWII America because the economy was so good” (WikiAnswers, 2009). He did not want the economy to suffer so he did not want to change a many aspects in fear that the economy would go down the tubes. The Cold War lasted well into other decades and actually was not over until the 1980s. The United States seemed to carry on even though we were in this war for so long. The Cold war ideology only changed one of our alliances after the Second World War. The communist nation the Soviet Union would prove that peace would be harder then everyone imagined. New Alliances were made and defenses were mutual which brought the nations together to fight if war should ever arise again. But even after all of this the United States came out on top at the end of it all.
1960’s – The Civil Rights