Us Involvement In The Cold War Essay

Presidents are a big deal to the people, but are they overrated. They are good at involving us into other nations disputes. They are also good at involving themselves or people close to them in scandals. This makes them and the American people look bad. During Woodrow Wilson 's presidency, the United States got involved in world war I due to the U.S claiming neutrality. At the same time they were aiding the allies with weapons. The Germans sunk the Lusitania ship because they found out U.S ships were carrying weapons for the allies. Aside from aiding the allies with weapons, we were also building up our military with the national defense act of 1916. The U.S used the Zimmerman telegram to convince people that we needed to join the war. Also, …show more content…
However, Stalin withdrew the Soviet forces and at the same time set up pro communist governments in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. This made Americans believe that Stalin was violating the promise of free elections in Poland that Winston Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt agreed to at the Yalta conference in 1945. In 1946 Truman 's administration received a telegram stating that communist beliefs would lead the Soviets to expand their power all over the world and that only the U.S could stop them. I feel that our presidents always have a way of engaging the U.S into wars instead of preventing them and in a way not make us look bad.
Furthermore, presidents not only involve us in wars, they also make us look bad. During Richard Nixon 's presidency, a guy named Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon papers that informed everyone that the U.S had been involved in the Vietnam war since before they found out. So president Nixon used some men known as the plumbers to go after any leaking information on the war and after any of his enemies like Daniel Ellsberg. In addition to the plumbers listening to phone conversations, five men from CREEP broke into the