the red scare was a period of the of intenseness during the cold war. The United States where scarring the American people saying that communism was every where. The term communism had a different meaning during this time, what it meant was that you where unpatriotic. what lead to the red scare was the introduction of the soviet union buffer zone, the defeat of Chiang Kai-She, and the Korean War. The buffer zone was a a group countries controlled by the USSR. the idea was that if another war started the Russians would not have to fight on home ground.Chiang Kai-She was the leader of Chine who believed in a democratic government but was forced out of main land chine by Mao Ze-dong. The Korean war was a fight between South Korea and North Korea the South being democratic and the north being communized. North Korea almost pushed all the way through south Korea nearly taking over the hole country, but america intervened and eventually the the borders of south and north Korea where established at the 38th parallel.
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The Cold War was a time when Russia and the USA where at each others throats. Russia and The USA where fighting over wether Communism or Democratic was better. President Ronald Reagan came up with the idea of bankrupting the Soviet Union by out spending them in the Arms race, this was know as Reaganomics . America did this by leaking information about weapons that where To advanced for the time. One of these ideas was Strategic defense initiative (SDI) also referred to as Star Wars. This concept was that america would have a shield around so no long rage missals could reach america with out being shot down. The USA won the could war economically by feeding the Soviet Union lies. The period of the cold war know as Detent was in a sense a time of peace. Detente was a idea proposed by President Richard Nixon and was continued by Gerald Ford, and Jimmy carter Until Ronald Reagan was put in to Presidents and end Denente. The for major events of Detent where Ostpolitik, The Helsinki Accord 1975, SALT 1, and SALT 2. Ostpolitik was a treat to unite Eastern Germany and West German, and for German to become democratic. The Helsinki Accord was a law passed by over 31 countries to increase human right in the USSR and to make it easer to cross borders from Communist and Democratic countries. SALT is the Strategic Arms Limitation Talk this was made because america wanted to limit the amount or nuclear weapons. SALT 2 was another treaty but was put to a halt because Russia invade Afghanistan. The Period know as Detente end in 1980 because of President Ronald Reagan. The most important out of all of these was SALT because it limited nuclear warfare. The USA did in fact lose the Vietnam War. Reason that the US lost this "War" is because they lost support on all fronts. the people in Vietnam wanted the United States out of there country, especially the younger generations such as collage students which would protest of there school grounds. The US also lost a ton of support from the American people many of the american people could not figure out why we where in Vietnam and spending all this money there. The US lost there support for this war and the North Vietnamese won because of there public relations victory. The domino affect did happen in South East Asia. As soon as the americans pulled out of South Vietnam they lost to north Vietnam ushering in Communism. along with Cambodia, and Laos they also fell under Communists regime. 9/11 has changed the face of the world forever, especially in America and how the world looks at the country. The 9/11 attack orchestrated by Osama Bin Laden had the effect he intended, the effect being anti-Americanism. The reason for this is because of the actions taken by America. By deploying military forces in the east it has caused an increase in fanatical Islamic groups among the muslim community, along with costing tens of thousands of lives and mass destruction of multiple countries in the east. It has also cost billions of dollars and much of this money has been borrowed, causing instability in the world economy. 9/11 has also caused higher security in world travel specifically in air travel and border crossing. The internet has effected the world in positive and negative ways. Positives being the increase in communication and social networking, service commerce, and the ability to have open opinions. The communication and social network world has greatly increased since the creation of the internet. Now no matter where you are you can get in contact some way or form to whomever you want. In terms of service commerce, it was a chore int he past to start a bank account or search for new house but with the internet, it is all a click away. Another great thing about the internet is the ability to have an open opinion, you can start blogs, unlimited access to news and media. The negatives to the Internet is crime and unethical practices, and anonymity. Crime over the internet can range from piracy to terrorism, with many good thing there are always people trying to exploit or us them for negative out comes such as the internet. Anonymity over the internet is positive and negative but the majority of the time it is used in a negative way, a good example of this is the use of hate blogs towards a group of people of a race or religion. With the good there are always the negatives that is just part of life. |