The Contributions Of Neo-Colonialism During The Cold War

When the world famous liberal thinker Francis Fukuyama in his masterpiece declared that we were witnessing the end of the history, he was greeting the new political structure and also the new international environment, which is peaceful[1]. However, developments that occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed us that the dissolution of the Soviets was unexpected. The international society was not ready for peace and Fukuyama’s optimistic assumptions were far from becoming real. Moreover, the international society currently started to realise that the tension and the potential of mass destructive war during the Cold War era had provided a

“I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.” This declaration, made by former President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947, is part of the Truman Doctrine, and was the basis for U.S. involvement in Western Europe throughout the Cold War. Although the North Atlantic Treaty, and the resulting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), was established during the Cold War “to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down,” NATO has persisted since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990. This essay will seek to examine the U.S. decision to create and participate in NATO. It will begin by providing a history of NATO and the U.S. decision to participate in NATO before considering how this decision is both an instance of continuity and change in U.S. foreign policy since former President George Washington’s Farewell Address. The essay will conclude by considering the legacy of this decision and its impact on U.S. foreign policy. While this essay will consider the period of time leading up to the formation of NATO and will briefly touch on the present day, greatest consideration will be paid to the time period immediately preceding and following the formation of NATO in 1949.

In the later half of the 20th century, the two biggest world powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were locked in a state of high tension. An official war between the two could destroy the whole world due to the invention of nuclear arms. Instead, America and the Soviet Union fought through other fronts, such as proxy wars, technological races, and economic strength. The Cold War led to the creation of many policies, institutions, and ideals, which fundamentally transformed American foreign policy. However, the Cold War failed to fundamentally transform American life, although it did lead to new movements that changed American life.

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The role of America at the end of World War II was where the origins of policing the world originate. America had been engaged in a very costly war in terms of dollars as well as lives. But, despite the expense the United States came out of World War II better than any other nation that was involved. The Second World War was a battle between the Allied and Axis Powers. The Allied Powers consisted of the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, China, and France. This war was seen as the fight against Nazi Germany, and therefore resulted in a majority of the battles fought on German and Russian soil. The aftermath left the Soviet Union in bad shape. Close to twenty million Russians

New Imperialism was the third wave of colonial expansion, precursored by Catholic colonialism in the sixteenth century and Mercantile colonialism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As the nineteenth century began, it became apparent that Europe and the United States were the dominant forces of the world, and that they were in control of defining global society. Proponents of New Imperialism believed that modern expansionism was necessary for economic, political, and cultural purposes that would benefit their own country. Furthermore, proponents also believed that colonization would modernize and incite progress in the civilizations outside of Europe and the United States. Nonetheless, New Imperialism established deep lines of contempt regarding Western power, marked with violence, throughout the world. Therefore, New Imperialism was a paltry act done by the Western world which seems to have produced little benefit.

At the turn of the twentieth century the United States expanded into new distant places. The change that is most obvious in turn-of-the-century expansion was the addition of territory that was not on the continent of North America. Such a change made the U.S. something it had not been before: an Empire. American imperialism is the military, economic, and ethnic inspiration of the United States with other nations. Such effect often goes hand in hand with extension into foreign terrains, such as the acquisition of Alaska and Hawaii, The Spanish American War, The control of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone in Columbia; they all ended up as being part of the US and under its control. The reason why the US was expanding: to compete economically

What if you were forced to adopt a standing on the government? During the Cold War, which was in 1947 and continued to 1991, America forced its democratic views on a lot of communist countries. America helped decrease communism in many different parts of the world and many different countries. The two places in which America helped exterminate communism in, I will be focusing on are Russia or the USSR as well as Greece and Turkey. During the Cold War America stood for democracy because the whole “war” was about exterminating communism and promoting democracy.

The United States experienced a period of growth and maturation during the twentieth century. Now, this is not to say that this was the only period of growth, but it was a significant time during which the United States began to establish its military force at an international level. By establishing itself during the twentieth century as one of the world’s largest superpowers, America grew to be respected by most of the world’s nations. America also grew to become much more active in foreign affairs, even in ones that had no relation to the nation. The United States began to look for chances to expand their country, as well as opportunities to benefit financially from these territories. Imperialism is the word that best describes the foreign

The objective of ‘the U.S. foreign policy’ course is to develop personal ability for applying IR theories to the U.S. foreign policy. Then, students will be able to understand the direction as well as the grounds of the U.S. foreign policy. To achieve this objective, I will discuss major the theoretical issues through the brief history of the U.S. foreign policy until the Cold War. After that, I will examine the challenges which the U.S. confronts.

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have,” Gerald Ford (1974) said during his address to a joint session of Congress: a warning to the public about the consequences of giving the Government overwhelming control. After the U.S. gained their independence from the British Hegemony, the Founding Fathers of America adopted the Bill of Rights to protect the people from this very situation. The 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution clearly states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”. Nevertheless, by the 21st, the democratic, free nation of

U.S foreign policy is a complex entity, shrouded in a deep need to provide safety for Americans along with a desire to shape the world in a way which is conducive for the American economy to prosper. The Cold War made these goals increasingly difficult due to the fact that the U.S was in unprecedented waters. Never before in U.S history had America been so involved abroad during peace time. Unrestricted warfare for the most part, was out of the question; it was often far too dangerous and the consequences far too grave to consider sending troops into foreign lands to protect American interest. Also coming out the the second Wold War and a bloody conflict in Korea the American public had no appetite for war. Instead the U.S relied increasingly

During cold war times, the US’ had a theory of containment. Containment made to stop the spread of communism, because it was thought that if the US could not stop communist countries than it could work on stopping communism from spreading. In 1954, Vietnam was able to become independent from France. The country was divided along the 17th parallel, and North Vietnam and South Vietnam were created. Ho Chi Minh led North Vietnam and it had a communistic government, which was supported by China and the USSR. On the other hand, South Vietnam was a ‘democratic’ (anti-communism) government, which was led by Ngo Dinh Diem and supported by the US.

The United States foreign policy during the Cold War was specifically to prevent Communistic influence from the Soviet Union to the rest of the world. With areas like, China, Africa, Korea, Vietnam, and Eastern Europe already in the communistic view, “containment” policies were put in place. Containment was first heard of in the early 1940’s by a U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan. He proposed a strategy to stop communistic views. The first action of containment was with Harry S. Truman and his effort for aid in Greece and Turkey, addressed at a joint session of Congress. Truman showed how both Greece and Turkey needed assistance from the United States, and with this assistance, can help contain communism away from Greece, therefore having a better position on Turkey. The next act of containment was shortly after the Truman Doctrine, and it was with George C. Marshall’s speech in front of Harvard Grad Students. He proposed the Marshall Plan, a post-war European program to help aid countries that were destroyed during WWII. This was one of the strategies used during this time. Once Dwight

After World War II, the United States had effectively become the most powerful and influential country in the world both militarily and politically. During America’s rise to power, however, hostilities mounted between America and the Soviet Union, resulting in a fierce rivalry. The Cold War, which never involved direct military confrontations between the two nations, involved of the struggle to contain the spread of communism, extreme anti-communist attitudes in America, and a reemergence of the civil rights issue.