The Power Of The United States During The Cold War

After World War II, America became a world power and aimed to use that power to promote and protect freedom, democracy, and justice around the world. The United States used its power to rebuild the countries around them that had been harmed during the Cold War. America’s dedication to proving its use of being a world power was successful in protecting and promoting freedom, democracy, and justice by creating acts such as The Civil Rights Movement, which involved the Montgomery Bus Boycott, The Marshall, and The Truman Doctrine. America used that dedication to promoting and protecting freedom by constructing The Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was “a nationwide movement that fought for equal rights for African Americans and for an end to racial segregation and
America provided the European countries with over 13 billion dollars to help repair their damaged nation caused by the Cold War, they helped rebuild their countries because they wanted Europe to not get distracted by the Soviet Union’s influence of communism. America knew that if they rebuilt the broken and damaged countries economically and democratically, then Europe would have an easy time resisting the pressure put upon them by the Soviets. Another topic that goes hand in hand with America promoting freedom, democracy, and justice is the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was a policy created by Harry Truman aiming to contain the spread of communism from countries in Europe. President Truman wanted to provide military and economic assistance to countries lacking those things so that they did not fall under the effect of communism, if those countries fell to communism then the domino effect would be in use leading other countries around them to fall into