The Cold war was one of the most tense wars, with many close calls. The Cold War, if actually turned south, could have turned out really badly, possibly one of the largest wars between the two largest nations at that time. Although they never fought, the indirect war was started mainly due to the actions of
Korea, China, and Vietnam all encountered conflict with Americans during the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war. It had many causes and was influenced by many events, including both the Yalta Conference and the spread of McCarthyism. Tensions between Democracy and Communism were so bad that in East Asia the U.S did not even recognize the People's Republic of China until Nixon became president. Because of the nuclear technology of the time, the Cold War could have drastically changed the face of the
Historical Patterns As a democratic nation the U.S.A. has always had a rivalry with communism. Throughout history we fight to contain communism either going straight to war or boycotting goods and events.You start noticing this during the cold war, after that we try to contain it in Korea, and even later down the road communism showed up on our front door step when the Cuban Missile Crisis happened. The cold war wasn’t a war with guns but a war of wits. When the Cold war first began Franklin D Roosevelt was still our president but when Truman became the president he really kept on top of the subject. One way he did this was with the Truman Doctrine.
The institutionalization of political parties avoids despotism. In my opinion, and based off of Tocqueville’s book Democracy in America, successful democratic nations maintain their democracy through the balancing of powers in the government and institutions. It is important to maintain separate powers and avoid a single power source, otherwise nations transform from democratic to despotic. If these avoidance measures are taken, along with the acknowledgement of the downfall of excessive equality, it is possible for a democratic nation to be
During the 19th century there were two different schools of political thought that emereged in the government. The two schools debated over the rights of the individual citizen guarenteed by the government and also the governments role in an individual citizen’s life. Laisse-faire was one of these ideas which followed the logic that the government was “...to make no more laws than those useful for preventing a man or body of men from infringing on the rights of other men,” (Whitman) that the government owes nothing more then "...peace, order and the guarantees of rights." (Sumner) The other school was the idea of expanding rights and participation in government. This idea would be fostered by creating each citizen equal from birth thus
The definition of a cold war is: “A state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates” (Wikipedia). The war between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic exhibits the entire definition of a cold war. America didn’t want the Soviet Union’s communism to expand and the Soviet Union didn’t want the American Democracy to expand. Henceforth, the two dove into the Cold War that terrorized the world for 46 years with the threat of nuclear war. The Cold War was a literal cold war because there was no direct military conflict between America and the Soviet Union
“Factions” DBQ The development in separate political parties in the late 18th century was one of the defining occurrences in American history. This division in opinion over how the government should be run began at the time of the ratification of the Constitution (A). Many of those who signed the Constitution believed that America would be united as a one-party state. Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury, though, had other ideas. He was the leader of the organized political faction known as the Federalists, and thus separated himself from the Republicans/Jeffersonians/Anti-Federalists, the party headed by Thomas Jefferson that opposed Federalism.
Prior to the war, the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union was extremely volatile despite having been allies in World War II. The Cold War, if thought about too closely, was actually in a comical sense in that it was the United States and the Soviet Union fighting each other without ever actually fighting each other. Instead, each nation used other “client” nations to fight for their beliefs on their “behalf”. In the Korean War this was very evident. The Soviet Union, a communistic nation, supplied the weapons to the North while anti-communist United States supplied the
* Harry Truman – the president next to the Roosevelt. * Cold war- a war between US and the Soviet Union due to the failures of the UN. * Truman Doctrine – Truman’s doctrine to aiding countries to fight communist takeover suck as Greece and Turkey. * NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization. * 38th parallel – A board between communist North Korea and non- communist South Korea.
Faction, a problem could not avoid in American society because of the vast different opinions. In favor of republican, James Madison emphasized that the strong Constitution has the control to deal with violence and aggression caused by faction which those in favor of democracy could not because of its instability government. Furthermore, in the federalist no.51 he stated that the Constitution’s separation of power also helps mitigate the problem of factionalism. Believing in pluralist theory that power is relatively broadly distributed among many more or less organized interest groups in society, and the fear of majoritarian rule, James Madison one more time convinced that the Constitution will mitigate the problem of factionalism by diving