How did the Cold War end and which challenges did the US have to face as a result?
To answer this question, I'll use 2 documents. The first one is an extract from a CNN interview of George Bush in 1997. Bush talks about a shift in the organization of the world and reflects on how America must behave in this new world. The second document is a picture of the front cover of The Miami Herald on the 12th of September, 2001. The headline,' "EVIL ACTS", Bush vows revenge for attacks' in addition to the date indicates that the newspaper deals with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
I'll first talk about the end of the Cold war and how things ended, and then talk about the challenges the country has to face.
I- The United States at the …show more content…
Thus, it would technically be incorrect to consider this the end when the world and the united states still had a lot of battles to lead.
In Document 1, Bush mentions the Helsinki Agreement which dates back to 1975, when he asks:"Are there human rights violations that make a mockery of Helsinki? Yes."
The conference which began in 1973 included an agreement to respect human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of movement across Europe. The US and the West saw the acceptance of these issues by the communist states of Eastern Europe as a significant step forward. In reality, the Soviet bloc governments ignored them.
Despite the dissolution of the USSR and the signature of these agreements, communism was far from extinct. Therefore, the outcome of the Cold War was the following: The world stopped being bipolar, because as said by Bush "the old order of two superpowers kind of dominating things is gone." but some ideologies stayed the …show more content…
Still, Bush gave the people a warning. He claims that there is a lot of change to be made and that even with their nation now free of any communist threat, America isn't exempt from new threats.
II- New Battles to face
A- New ideological threats
Indeed, the same year the Cold War ended, wars in the middle east emerged. George Bush responded to the 1st Gulf War by sending aerial and ground troops within Iraq and Kuwait.
Under Bill Clinton's presidency, America failed to go by the unspoken policy George Bush had led which consisted in taking part of the World's political affairs. America even declined to send troops into Rwanda to stop the genocide there in 1994.
Additionally, the country underwent their first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993.
Indeed, with the Treaty of Sèvres in 1921 and the Jewish population desperate attempts to migrate to another country during World War II, the Middle East gradually transformed itself into an area of conflict.
From there, terrorism started to appear in regions such as
To answer this question, I'll use 2 documents. The first one is an extract from a CNN interview of George Bush in 1997. Bush talks about a shift in the organization of the world and reflects on how America must behave in this new world. The second document is a picture of the front cover of The Miami Herald on the 12th of September, 2001. The headline,' "EVIL ACTS", Bush vows revenge for attacks' in addition to the date indicates that the newspaper deals with the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
I'll first talk about the end of the Cold war and how things ended, and then talk about the challenges the country has to face.
I- The United States at the …show more content…
Thus, it would technically be incorrect to consider this the end when the world and the united states still had a lot of battles to lead.
In Document 1, Bush mentions the Helsinki Agreement which dates back to 1975, when he asks:"Are there human rights violations that make a mockery of Helsinki? Yes."
The conference which began in 1973 included an agreement to respect human rights such as freedom of speech and freedom of movement across Europe. The US and the West saw the acceptance of these issues by the communist states of Eastern Europe as a significant step forward. In reality, the Soviet bloc governments ignored them.
Despite the dissolution of the USSR and the signature of these agreements, communism was far from extinct. Therefore, the outcome of the Cold War was the following: The world stopped being bipolar, because as said by Bush "the old order of two superpowers kind of dominating things is gone." but some ideologies stayed the …show more content…
Still, Bush gave the people a warning. He claims that there is a lot of change to be made and that even with their nation now free of any communist threat, America isn't exempt from new threats.
II- New Battles to face
A- New ideological threats
Indeed, the same year the Cold War ended, wars in the middle east emerged. George Bush responded to the 1st Gulf War by sending aerial and ground troops within Iraq and Kuwait.
Under Bill Clinton's presidency, America failed to go by the unspoken policy George Bush had led which consisted in taking part of the World's political affairs. America even declined to send troops into Rwanda to stop the genocide there in 1994.
Additionally, the country underwent their first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in February 1993.
Indeed, with the Treaty of Sèvres in 1921 and the Jewish population desperate attempts to migrate to another country during World War II, the Middle East gradually transformed itself into an area of conflict.
From there, terrorism started to appear in regions such as