Cold War Dbq

When people hear the word war, they automatically think of troops on the ground, bullets flying and unfortunately death. This is not the case when we are talking about the Cold War between the United States of America and Soviet Union. This war would last from 1945-1989 and would test both countries use of propaganda, beliefs, and political ambitions. We will explore how the war started, what policies were implemented, and the eventual end of the war.

The Cold War was between two countries, The United States of America and Soviet Union. During World War II, the United States of America and Russia were allies fighting a common enemy, Nazi Germany, and once the war had ended political ambitions and trust issues started to drive a wedge between

As Russia would continue its expansive tendencies, Truman would implement his Truman Doctrine or containment plan to slow the spread of communism to the rest of Europe. Truman told Congress that "it must be the policy of the United States to support free people who are resisting attempting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures (History of the Cold War, 2017)." Harry Truman formed the National Security Console, they would advise Truman to use a show of force to handle the ongoing treat to democracy in free world. This policy was known as Massive Retaliation headed by Eisenhower which stated to use atomic weapons if attacked (History of the Cold War, 2017). This way of thinking would lead to an arms buildup and increase of military spending in the coming months in both countries. The United States stated that they would be building a bigger and more devastating bomb called the Hydrogen Bomb (BBC, 2014). Not to be out done Russia would play catch up and tests would go on between both countries. During these tests the world would see the raw power of these weapons. This would Strike fear in the United States and there was a panic of an Atomic War between both

The United States and Russia wanted to prove they could frontier the next best thing space. Each eager to prove to the world they would be the first to engineer satellites into space (Britannica). Russia would be the first to accomplish this on October 4th, 1957 they launched the first satellite into earth’s atmosphere (History of the Cold War, 2017). Not to be out done the United State accomplished this feat as well a year later.

However, the Cold War had an affect on domestic policy socially and economically. “Socially, the intensive indoctrination of the American people led to a regression of social reforms. Economically, enormous growth spurred by industries related to war was aided by heavy government expansion. The New Deal felt the greatest impact of the cold War”(McCarthy).

Eisenhower wanted to keep the New Neal in place. He wanted to democrats to regain control of Congress. In 1956, the Interstate Highway Act was enacted. (Lecture 2/13) By this, our infer structure was inmoved and also business benefited from this. Social security benefits were expanded and minimum wage was increased. (Lecture