Containment In The Cold War

In suit from the previous dilemma of WWII, the United States had fallen into a position of authority in terms of being considered a “great global power” in several sanctions of European countries. This newly founded mindset that occupied the mass majority of United States citizens only came to further exemplify the prestige that was offered through the success of a nation in one of the most demanding situations in all of history. However, those higher standards that the United States found themselves in would soon come to close upon the arrival of the Soviet Union’s communist revolt to the previously westernized manifestos that came from the European nations. The event of the Cold War brought about several highly anticipated dilemmas …show more content…
This concept was set into pace in order to assist the ideas predicating the prevention for a tremendous loss in American freedoms and footholds on other countries in Europe and the Middle East. In further association to the act of containment, the former wartime prime minister, Winston Churchill, remarked the declaration of the infamous “iron curtain” and its connection between the United States struggles with the Soviet Union. The aforementioned conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union has since dissipated, however the implementations of the ideological concept of containment has managed to establish itself once again in the ongoing conflict between the United States and the Middle East. This concept is represented through the newly enacted reforms of the Syrian Refugee Crisis and President Trump’s immigration ban in an attempt to minimize the level of terrorism that has plagued the United States over the previous …show more content…
The theoretical implementations that surround the ideas of Communism suggest that the government has supreme authority through its total control of a nation's land and means of production. The communist ideals center around the standard of equality in terms of the social and economic factors of any society in the modern age. However, the theoretical ideals that surround the concept of Socialism focus more toward the social sector rather than the private means of economical production. These ideals continue through the use of moving more toward production planning rather than market forces and come to needing satisfaction rather than profit accumulation. However, these two ideas of economic standings possess differences in the terms of Socialism growing directly out of the branch of capitalism (the first form of a new society) and Communism being merely a further developed or higher staged branch of Socialism. The aspect of Socialism has been implemented in the societal countries of Venezuela, where it failed miserably in an attempt to stabilize the country and ended up placing the people in terror a supreme state of fear, and also in Brazil, where it caused a demographic of oppression in terms of poor treatment. Whereas the concept of Communism has been