How did the Cold War transform American foreign policy
How did the Cold War transform American foreign policy?
Introduction
This essay will explain, describe, and outline factors, events and speeches that show how the cold war transformed American Foreign policy.
To fully understand the cold war we must to travel to the past, even before the second wold war. America was the first democratic country in the world, with a private enterprise ideology, which can be called of capitalism.
In contrast with URSS, which after the Bolshevik revolution, under Lenin controls adapted, a communist regime, where the state represents the people and owns everything.
These two ideologies communism (authoritarianism) and capitalism (democracy) are the opposite, like water and wine; they do not go together, which made of these two countries natural enemies.
Even before the Great War, URSS had strong intentions to expand the communism, and US were the most powerful economic country, an example for the world, however the great depression outlined that there is no perfect system and for the eyes of the world communism was a valid option.
Although both countries had massive differences, a major event made these two natural enemies became allies. The world war against Nazi camouflaged all issues behind. It brought two different ideologies under the table and formed a powerful alliance, alongside with UK and others allies countries. 1 American position before the Great War
US did not want to get into the world war 2, it was a massive issue inside the country, Franklin Roosevelt was elected with a promise of do not send any troops to fight a war overseas, as his remarkable speech describes “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” (Roosevelt, 1940).2
America was reluctant to get into the war mainly because they were focus in sort out the domestic issues left by the great depression. Firstly, US found
Introduction
This essay will explain, describe, and outline factors, events and speeches that show how the cold war transformed American Foreign policy.
To fully understand the cold war we must to travel to the past, even before the second wold war. America was the first democratic country in the world, with a private enterprise ideology, which can be called of capitalism.
In contrast with URSS, which after the Bolshevik revolution, under Lenin controls adapted, a communist regime, where the state represents the people and owns everything.
These two ideologies communism (authoritarianism) and capitalism (democracy) are the opposite, like water and wine; they do not go together, which made of these two countries natural enemies.
Even before the Great War, URSS had strong intentions to expand the communism, and US were the most powerful economic country, an example for the world, however the great depression outlined that there is no perfect system and for the eyes of the world communism was a valid option.
Although both countries had massive differences, a major event made these two natural enemies became allies. The world war against Nazi camouflaged all issues behind. It brought two different ideologies under the table and formed a powerful alliance, alongside with UK and others allies countries. 1 American position before the Great War
US did not want to get into the world war 2, it was a massive issue inside the country, Franklin Roosevelt was elected with a promise of do not send any troops to fight a war overseas, as his remarkable speech describes “I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” (Roosevelt, 1940).2
America was reluctant to get into the war mainly because they were focus in sort out the domestic issues left by the great depression. Firstly, US found
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