Bernard Baruch's Containment Policy After The Cold War

The Second World War ended, between the reality of a Europe devastated and weakening the international system and Germany, a crumbling on the verge of being split, the United States and Soviet Union emerged as the superpower in the world, the wealthy and the powerful. Both countries quickly control the entire system of international politics. However, the Soviet Union-United States with two opposing ideological stand on opposite sides of the battle. A series of consecutive conflicts emerged, while not causing a direct confrontation, but it was the beginning of a historical period known as the "Cold War".

Bernard Baruch, a financier and advisor for many United States presidents, is said to be the first person to use the term Cold War. The cold

After the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet Union started developing arms control and achieves balance of nuclear weapon with the United States. The Vietnam War led to the frustration of American public about the policy of intervention during the cold war. “As Nixon and Kissinger had hoped, the warming of U.S.-Chinese relations furthered their strategy of détente, their term for easing conflict with the Soviet Union. Détente did not mean abandoning containment but instead meant focusing on issues of common concern, such as arms control and trade. Containment would be achieved not only by military threat but also by ensuring that the Soviets and Chinese had stakes in a stable international order. Nixon’s goal was “a stronger healthy United States, Europe, Soviet Union, China, Japan, each balancing the other.”(Page 894). When Richard Nixon took office in 1969, the war in Vietnam has lasted almost four years. The bloody conflict was killing more than 25,000 American soldiers and countless Vietnamese people as of that time. Nixon campaigned in 1968 with the promise of a "peace with honor" in Vietnam. First of all, he assured American allies in Asia will keep the commitments in Vietnam. Second, President Nixon marked the official announcement about the plan "Vietnam war” that the U.S. military will gradually withdraw from the conflict in Southeast Asia and will be replaced with the army of South Vietnam. The peak phase of peace is the 1972-1973, but it does not last