US Foreign Policy During The Cold War

The biggest moments of history majority the time was involved with other nations. Both World Wars, Revolutionary War, and The Cold War, these are just some of the conflicts that had worldwide involvement. The United States of America had a big role to play in each of those conflicts. The United States had many occasions to stir up another war, but the U.S. implemented the foreign policy to prevent that. Foreign Policy is an action the government makes to handle with other countries. Thomas Jefferson in his First Inaugural Address in 1801 said ‘Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.’ (State). During the Beginning of the U.S. nation, there was belief to be strictly neutral during a time of war. Alliances were a big cause to WWI, a chain reaction of nations supporting their allied nations ended up with the involvement of the whole world. Treaties are a common form that portrays what Foreign Policy does. During the Cold War, The U.S. signed the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaters as well as other nations, agreeing to not develop nuclear weapons. The aim of the treaty was to establish some sort of peace with all nations; that demonstrates what is mentioned in Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address.
The Korean War was a massive conflict between U.S.
and North Korea that also demonstrated Foreign Policy. June 25th, 1950 was the start of the Korean War (Zissis). North Korea had the support of the Soviet Union during the war. South Korea has the support of the U.S., so when North Korea infiltrated South Korea, that is when the United States got involved in the Korean war. North Korea and the Soviet Union supported communism and that was the focal point of the Korean War. Another action of Foreign Policy is to promote democratic values which the U.S. supports (ushistory.org). When the United States joined the Korean war its objective was to stop the spread of communism. Since the alliances are joining and become a part of the Korean war, there was a fear that potentially a World War 3 would emerge. World War II ended with the use of nuclear weapons, so around this time of the Korean War, most the countries had their hands on some sort of nuclear
weapon. July 1953, the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement happened to end Korean War and establish peace; unfortunately, there were around 5 million casualties combining both sides. (Council on Foreign Relations). General William Harrison was a United States Lieutenant that was a part of the signing to end the war. Even after the war, Korean was still split horizontally and a demilitarized zone was established. To present time there is still a guarded border between North and South Korea. The United States still supports South Korea and spreads its democratic values. There were a couple of occurrences where North Korea said it didn’t recognize the Korean Armistice Agreement anymore but no actions have yet been recorded (Council on Foreign Relations). United States almost went to war again with North Korea when there were threats of nuclear activities. To avoid it the Agreed Framework was made in 1994 stating that North Korea would not do any nuclear activities(PBS). Tensions between North Korea and U.S. still occur and the cause revolves around nuclear weapons. It started in 2003 when North Korea withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (Kirgis). This means that North Korea will have nuclear activity again. North Korea has talked about taking steps towards denuclearization. But instead, tests are continuously being