Sovereignty: America's Tool for Unity and Disunity

Sovereignty is the power of self-rule, self-determination, freedom, and can belong during and after World War II, the United States struggled to unify under Cold War fears, political unrest, and international pressure. Sovereignty acts as a tool of both unity and disunity as the United States attempts to navigate suburbanization, foreign policy, race, generational differences, and shifting political ideologies while establishing itself as a world power. During World War II and the beginning of the Cold War social unrest plagued American citizens as fear for the future in an atomic age resided in the minds of many. The making of suburban dreams included privacy, older views of modernity and exclusivity. This push for privatization influenced

Subsequent involvement in Africa, Korea and eventually Vietnam created tensions with anticolonial activists and ultimately the American people as the rules of sovereignty were challenged. However, these actions supplemented the international political power of the United States and therefore aided its maturation of world power status. The United States’ thirst for control of international resources over the human rights of international lives mirrored the stonewalling of minority groups at

The new white Left established itself away from the ideologies of their parents and instead focused on modern organization tactics. From it stemmed the radical Weather Underground. Disney’s atomic children morphed into political activists, angry with the idle government and the lack of unification amongst Americans. Weather Underground represented the extremist dissociation of the Old Left and New Left, and the generation disunity it caused. They wanted to establish new sovereignty, revolting against their parent’s antipathy towards