Cold War Tensions

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was one of the defining conflicts of the twentieth century. Tensions between America and Soviet Union grew out after World War. The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union went on for much of the second half of the 20th century. Rivalry led to raised tension, mutual suspicions thoughts concerning each other and last an array of worldwide incidents that brought the world’s superpowers close to a disaster. World War II served as a learning experience for the United States as well as helped show America's vulnerability for a major conflict (Johnson, 209.) Military readiness was essential to becoming an accession to post war society. For the Common Defense
A nation our size and with our wealth was vulnerable and lacked the ability to protect ourselves against Hitler and his armies. America had no military formation or field army to fight Germany. The skeletons of three and a half divisions were dislocated all over the United States.To train the remaining the combat troops was nearly impossible due to lack of transportation. Our nation’s air force lacked,equipment and modern arms. General Marshall and Pershing, tried to sway the nation to organize as well as and maintain a powerful defense policy after the last World War. After capturing Hermann Goering, Goering stated that America would become a definite rocket target had Germany had remained undefeated, specifically the in the east. The United States was able to escape the attack in the World War II,being that it was made aware. President Washington proposed the training of a citizen army in times of peace to help guarantee we would stay strong and not bankrupt military expenditures. Modern war at that time required the knowledge and skills of an entire nation, this then emerged the development of Universal Military Training.
On February 22, 1946, U.S. Diplomat George Kennan, sent out a secret telegram to the State Department outlining what would become the the American Policy of containment and helped to establish some tactics and strategies
“ Obviously we cannot all put on uniforms and stand ready to repel invasion. The greatest energy in peacetime of any successful nation must be devoted to productive and and gainful labor. But all Americans can, in the next generations, prepare themselves to serve their country in maintaining the peace…” (Johnson, 212). Any contribution to the power and protection of a nation relies on everyone, instead of the common thought of just men. Leaders and government officials tried to manipulate the general public view to do away with communism.“ Robbery, not war, is the ideal of communism(Johnson, 134). This quote shows how harsh the government viewed the ideals of communism. The quote shows how powerful the government felt about communism, and to which magnitude officials would try to negatively impact the public about communism. “My information showed that communism in this country was an organization of thousands of aliens, who were direct allies of Trotzky.” These characterizations of the russians helped change the opinions many american households had about communism. Officials equating the Russians to foreign beings such as aliens made people fear the life of communism therefore introducing objection to the minds of