Should The United States Be Conflicted In The Cold War?

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This source believes that all countries should have a right to have their own policies, also that all countries should, “pursue its own goals”, and avoid interfering with another countries policies. Throughout the countries of the world they’re many different ideas and policies on religion, race, culture, etc., that all conflict with each other in different ways. Some believe that when these countries conflict with one another there should be some kind of interference between them to fix the situation by means of compromising. Some countries think that they should interfere with others in certain situations especially when it conflicts with their beliefs. When the United States and the Soviet Union conflicted in the Cold war, them interfering …show more content…
Around the time of World War II Germany led by Adolf Hitler slowly took the rights of Jews and then committed genocide. A reason for this is because Hitler was left alone with his beliefs unrestricted for too long. In the Cold War the U.S and the Soviet Union (both because they were unrestricted) decided to plant armed nuclear weapons against each other. If these countries would have made agreements or restrictions on certain weaponry this world wide scare could have been completely avoided. An outcome that happened because of the Cold War was the proxy wars in Vietnam and Korea. One reason for why these wars happened was the lack of restrictions in the countries moral guidelines. There are many who believe in the source when it says that every country should be unrestricted. They believe this because being unrestricted allows a country to grow into what they decide. An example of this is, when the Cold War was occurring, having no restrictions allowed for the U.S and Soviet Union to do whatever they needed to show that they were the bigger superpower. This also helped speed up the information humans knew about nuclear power and

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