Question

Create a structure/ frame of an introduction, thesis, supporting evidence, analysis, and proper context for the following questions.

4. Discuss the impact and major turning points of the Cold War.

- How did it change American foreign policy?

- How did it influence domestic issues of race and equality?

Answer 1

During the Cold War, friction between the US and the Soviet Union started to build up. It was like a bomb at any moment that might go off and the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly lighted the fuse to that bomb. Yet the bomb started to be removed piece by piece after the Crisis. One outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that both sides captured missiles positioned near each other. The Soviet Union removed the missiles in Cuba, and the United States agreed as soon as possible to withdraw missiles in Turkey. The decision to remove missiles in Turkey and Cuba not only reduced the tension during the crisis, but eventually reduced the tension during the Cold War

Many people believed missile withdrawal in both Cuba and Italy did not alleviate the tension in the Cold War. The withdrawal, however, decreased the tension as it decreased missile armament on both sides. When the Soviet Union found out NATO had placed nuclear missiles in Turkey and Italy, they replied by placing nuclear missiles in the west facing Soviet Union. This has shown that an arms race between two nations begins by putting nuclear missiles near another country. Due to the fact that nuclear missiles could cause server damage to a region and the risk of starting a nuclear war, this significantly raised uncertainty.

The policy of non-intervention of the United States was upheld for much of the nineteenth century. The United States' first major foreign intervention was the Spanish-American War which saw it invade and rule the Philippines.
In the wake of the First World War, US foreign policy's non-interventionist impulses were in full effect. Second, the United States Congress refused the most desired provision of the Versailles Convention, the League of Nations, for President Woodrow Wilson.

To all the post-war era was not the same. Black veterans came back from war hoping to be welcomed as heroes. Instead, they found that racial segregation had recently intensified in the South, taking jobs from them and giving them to white veterans. Many turned to the civil rights movement, which was increasingly increasing in scale. Protesting, however, in the 1950s challenged the conformity standard, and civil rights were often treated with skepticism.