Increased Military Spending During the Cold War Brought Stagnation to the Economy

shift expanded from protecting the state from external military threats to including an umbrella of new topics revolving around human rights. This also changes the military as the main key institution involved in security by including the criminal justice system and waste management agencies which are liable for crime and environmental dangers respectively. Barry Buzan from the Copenhagen School employ the five political sectors which are military, political, economic, society and environment as the…

This divided world created a globalized economy unlike ever before, one with communist countries and one with democratic. All the countries of the world, of each government type, were interconnected and dependent on each other. The countries of the opposite group were not traded with, all the trading was done within a countries own group. This created a situation where some countries were given opportunities to advance for the better of the group, democratic or communist. This caused many first world…

The threat of nuclear war in the 1950's was real and was one that was on the mind nearly every person in both the United States and the United Kingdom. After the end of the Second World War the world can be seen to be split into two sides, the East and the West, Communism and Democracy. After the Second World War the Soviet Union became paranoid with the West as well as the United States become paranoid of the Communist East, and after the Soviets had made their first nuclear bomb this created massive…

dollars in financial aid to be delivered to Greece and Turkey, both of which he suspected were threatened by a possible communist invasion. Cowie, a well-noted author, considers Truman’s speech to be the trigger for the transition of the Cold War from a temporary state to a permanent quarrel as it directly states America’s aggressive approach towards communist countries. Congress responded to Truman’s appeal by allocating the required funds along with US troops to administer…

During the Cold War, lots of East Germans had rights taken from them. The main causes were the East German government and Russia, which built the Berlin Wall, the main restricting barrier for the East Germans. Some of the rights that they East Germans lost, as stated at www.lowyinterpreter.org, “Many regimes in Eastern Europe refused to allow their citizens freedom to travel, and prisoners of conscience were jailed for trying to exercise their rights of expression, association and religion.” However…

(Brands 31). During spring of 1950, Truman's National Security Council had developed a blueprint for American policy in the Cold War; NSC 68 (Brands 32). The document, possibly inspired by George Kennan, portrayed the Soviet Union in an aggressive light stating that "The Soviet Union is seeking to create overwhelming military force" and called for a massive buildup of the Unites States military (Brands 33), but the realpolitik George Kennan believed in did not advocate for a military containment (LeCain);…

and unemployment increased and the country eventually fell into recession. The welfare state in Europe relates to the cold war because shortly after the cold war, the economy began to grow. Health insurance systems were introduced. Social democratic parties were formed, social continuity enforced. The right to welfare and economic growth helped to boost Europe’s economy. More jobs were created as a result of the cold war. The consumer culture in the U.S. relates to the cold war by the growth of…

others to try to match them. In 2012, the United States allocated 37% of its budget on military spendings but only 2% on diplomacy, development and war prevention. This is also more than spendings on healthcare and responses to poverty combined. The budget would contribute far more to security if it was spent on energy efficiency, foreign aid and arms control. ! ! Furthermore, the danger and paradox of military spending is that the bigger the budget, the more powerful the lobby because which can fight…

in the American leadership, attempted to place nuclear warheads on Cuba. The United States responded by blockading Cuba, and the USSR relented. Both the covert invasion and the later blockade were major diversions from the initial policy of non-military containment of the expansion of socialism. The creation of a communist state so physically close to the United States was of major concern…

imported goods by the government. The North supported any tariffs on imported goods for a few reasons insomuch they did not feel threatened. Industry was running rampant, so finished goods did not have to be brought over from England. There was no more need to import from England. If imports were brought in, they were more of a luxury than a necessity. All necessities were made on Northern soil by their own factories. Another reason that the North favored taxes was because they hoped that with higher import…