Most Significant Events
- Submitted by: xyhic
- Views: 734
- Category: History: American
- Date Submitted: 06/26/2011 03:58 PM
- Pages: 8
- Report this Essay
Most Significant Events
By Cody Schmidt
This paper is to show not only what I have learned in the past nine weeks but what I have learned about our past history. Our past is a vital link to our understanding of the future and we as a people can look back on past events as a precedent. Also the point of this paper is to show what I think personally influenced and changed the way our lives work today. When it comes down to it this paper is about my opinion of the facts and how I think our country was changed either for the better or the worse.
In this paper I will link certain events that helped form the America we live in today. First, I want to stress how much I think the cold war influenced our country. The cold war ideology that came from the aftermath of WWII changed wartime alliances after the war because of political believes on how to run a country. For instance the countries that were our enemies now become our friends and vice versa. After the war China and Russia became our main focus even though we helped them out in WWII because of their Communist views and ideas of expanding their borders. After we bombed Japan, China was the country that helped us out by letting us use their landing space, refuel and send our men back home. After the war high tension between us and China existed but never escalated as bad as the Russian American silent war.
The main way American Cold war policies and practices influenced and even changed internal relations was the overall fighting of communism. After WWII Russia wanted a huge chunk of Germany and the US clearly stated that we would defend any country being attacked by a Communist one. The United States drew a lot of attention worldwide from communist countries turning allied nations against us almost overnight. The United States was now on a communist hunting spree where government employees were being hanged because of inconclusive proof of their involvement with communist. After WWII the United States...
By Cody Schmidt
This paper is to show not only what I have learned in the past nine weeks but what I have learned about our past history. Our past is a vital link to our understanding of the future and we as a people can look back on past events as a precedent. Also the point of this paper is to show what I think personally influenced and changed the way our lives work today. When it comes down to it this paper is about my opinion of the facts and how I think our country was changed either for the better or the worse.
In this paper I will link certain events that helped form the America we live in today. First, I want to stress how much I think the cold war influenced our country. The cold war ideology that came from the aftermath of WWII changed wartime alliances after the war because of political believes on how to run a country. For instance the countries that were our enemies now become our friends and vice versa. After the war China and Russia became our main focus even though we helped them out in WWII because of their Communist views and ideas of expanding their borders. After we bombed Japan, China was the country that helped us out by letting us use their landing space, refuel and send our men back home. After the war high tension between us and China existed but never escalated as bad as the Russian American silent war.
The main way American Cold war policies and practices influenced and even changed internal relations was the overall fighting of communism. After WWII Russia wanted a huge chunk of Germany and the US clearly stated that we would defend any country being attacked by a Communist one. The United States drew a lot of attention worldwide from communist countries turning allied nations against us almost overnight. The United States was now on a communist hunting spree where government employees were being hanged because of inconclusive proof of their involvement with communist. After WWII the United States...