The Cold War and War on Terror were literally not any typical war that we witnessed throughout history. Although, they were unique and each had their own causes and effects, yet in some ways they are connected. In the Cold War, was a war between two superpowers enemies but no actual fighting occurred, however, there was a stockpile of nuclear weapons and money was being spent like an actually Wars being fought. This war causes a bipolar system in the world where there were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. The Cold War was a real complicated war because it was more a fight about ideology, Democracy and Communism. The attacks of 9/11 that caused the death of 3000 Americans, have reshaped and changed the way Americans …show more content…
There have been many major events that could be referred as successes or failures, during both the Cold War and the War on Terror. Starting with the Cold War, the victory at the Greek Civil War on October 1949 was the first successful containment of Communism. The Truman Doctrine, which provided support for free countries struggling against communist and totalitarianism, Prevent communism countries and the Soviet Union from encroaching on free nations and Shore up support among western nations for those countries fighting Communist expansion, was an important step into defeating communism. However, two major failures occurred when we lost China to communism and when the Soviet Union acquired a Nuclear Bomb. The successful communist revolution in China created fear over the increasing communist threat. Led to purges in the state department of officials who “failed” to predict the fall of the KMT or were suspected of Communist sympathies. “But Beijing was certain to want much in return, Truman insisted, and making concessions to the Chinese would only make them increasingly aggressive”(Maximalist P.60). In the fall of …show more content…
The United States was no longer the sole country in the world possessing nuclear weapons. Changed strategic calculus of conducting the Cold War. Development of NATO on April, 1949 NATO treat signed, probed Western European nations to act to resist soviet aggression and come to each other’s aid in the event of a soviet invasion. “Before he sought the presidency, Eisenhower had been picked by Truman to be the first commander of NATO; Dulles had recently negotiated the U.S. peace treaty with Japan” (Maximalist 66). The German Rearmament created a dispute that divided the alliances for five years, “In 1953 the transatlantic debate about who should spend how much centered, as it had since Acheson’s 1950 “Bomb the Waldrof,” on the issue of German rearmament”(Maximalist 73). France wanted for the U.S. and Britain to keep their troops in Germany for at least the next 20 years, in order to secure their safety from Germany. However, Eisenhower not only refused to keep troops in Germany, but also refused to promise that U.S. forces would stay in Europe. The Korean War, where President Eisenhower insisted that the United States never aimed to unify Korea and was ready to accept the boarders of the thirty-eighth parallel. However, he wanted the Chinese