How Has The Cold War Affected America

Did you know that the Cold War is still going on today? During the late 1940’s the United States just got out of WWII and the Great Depression. Amongst this time, the American Government wanted to take a new stance on its Domestic Policy. They came up with the idea of Isolationism, where we would stay out of other people's business so we do not get into another unnecessary war. Some might say that the Cold War did not affect the US, but these events all took place before the Cold War even happened, and challenges only increased as we moved forward. The Cold War strongly affected the United States’ Domestic policy and American society, because tensions increased with the Soviet Union leading to nuclear warfare, communism begun to spread in the world, and it got us involved in many wars. Many of the issues relating to the Cold War regarding the United States, was the Soviet Union. During WWII, the United States, France and the Soviet Union were in an alliance. But shortly after the war ended, the Soviet Union broke off from the alliance and seeked for new forms of …show more content…
So the United States repositioned themselves to a new Domestic policy, the idea of Containment. Where if any form of communism presents itself in a country, we will go in and clean it up. Because communism began to spread very quickly throughout the world, the US could not that happen and put a threat on its own government. President John F. Kennedy once said, “Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both” (Kennedy). The negative effects of communism to a government were too devastating to the President, and he made his point clear that the United States will do everything in its will to contain and stop communism. The United States’ Domestic policy of Containment continued to proceed them deeper in the Cold