America After The Cold War

Many wars, rebellions, and revolutions have shaped the United States of America into what it is today. But no war, some historians argue, shaped this country so much as the Cold War. Being one of the longest wars in the United States ' history, it spanned from approximately 1947 to 1991*, a total of 44 years. It wasn 't a particularly common war, where the two opposing sides attack each other directly. It was a war fought with pawns and threats, with destruction and the manipulation of nations, with espionage and more moral wars than physical ones. Through secrecy and political finesse, the United States proved triumphant, but not before forfeiting the respect and trust of its citizens. Niccolò Machiavelli, a famous Italian philosopher, said …show more content…
Though it was one of the oldest countries involved in the Cold War, it was still incredibly young and inexperienced. In the stretch of time before the Cold War, the United States had undergone five wars, all in which their adversaries had directly attacked the United States based on its action. The Cold War was in very different circumstance. The Soviet Union during the first World War had one objective: to assimilate the entirety of the world into Stalinist communism*. After the war was over, clearly the Soviet Union had failed in its objective. Because it already had questionable relations with both the United Nations and the United States, it decided to continue with its nefarious plans. The United States, being the justice- seeking nation that it always is, attempted to stop the Soviet Union. In the entirety of the Cold War, the Soviet Union maintained its singular objective. It never, at any time, went to war to directly attack the United States. The United States had to deal with these unique circumstances in its adolescence. The fear and stress of participating in this war, virtually unassisted, pushed the United States towards