Essay On The Effects Of The Cold War

For about 40 years plus the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. feuded with each other over their different views of economics and political ideas; this was called the Cold War.The policy of containment was to keep something isolated or preventing the growth of a certain influence. The Cold war started after World War II when the Soviet Union disliked the idea of a democracy and the U.S. disliked the idea of communism. Communists believed that everything was owned by the government and the U.S. had the economic theory of capitalism which let things be privately owned by the business not the state. Russian leaders believed that communism must spread throughout the world but the U.S. didn’t, this caused a great tension between this two. The effects of the Cold war showed how the U.S. practiced containment. The U.S. created the Truman Doctrine which helped struggling countries, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War, and Cuban Missile crisis.
The first policy of containment was because of American spy George Kennan and his Long Telegram to the U.S. on February 22th, 1946 “The U.S. should be patient and vigilant in practicing containment against the U.S.S.R.”(Kennan). This meant that the U.S. shouldn’t attack the USSR and should focus on other ways to stop the spread of communism. During
On June 25th 1950 North Korea (Doc C, Map) . North Korea was supported by China and they were communist while South Korea was supported by the United States; the U.S. decided to join the war. The map portrays that the U.S., South Korea and those in the United Nations were nearly pushed off the Korean peninsula. North Korea attacked because they wanted to help the spread of communism. General Douglass MacArthur then helped South Korea push back North Korea back to the Chinese border. This shows the American policy of containment because this demonstrated that the U.S. was fighting against the spread of