The role of The United States in the world was very apparent following World War II. The world knew the United States was a force to be reckoned with after the dropping of the Atomic bombs in Japan. President Truman understood the …show more content…
Many historians note that it was not until Reagan that the Cold War began to heat up again; however, The United States made up some lost ground as a world power during Carter’s Presidency when the Soviets failed to defeat the Afghan Mujahedeen revolt and were forced to leave Afghanistan. This can be seen as very similar to The United States’ failure to destroy the North Vietnamese and after the Soviets left Afghanistan they lost a similar amount of respect as a world power that the United States did following