Conflicted Impact - Us History

CONFLICTED IMPACT

Conflicts arise and are dealt with in multiple ways. For the United States conflict was something the country became accustom to and after 1918 many wars began to be fought in order to settle the concern. However, it is the impact of those conflicts that have made new consequences throughout our society that are still being dealt with today.

After 1918 there were several wars fought throughout the United States and the Cold War (September 2, 1945 - December 25, 1991) was one. While the Cold War between the United States and its NATO allies was fought with the intentions to solve economic, cultural, social, and political problems it instead made some lasting impacts that can never be forgotten. One of the biggest impacts that the Cold War had on America according to faculty.uuc.edu was that there was an enormous amount of money spent by the Americans for their defense during the war. It wasn't until after the Cold War ended that President Ronald Reagan saw this as an issue factor and as a loss to America. According to Reagan's theory, "the robust Western economies could absorb the expenses of programs such as the Star Wars missile defense but the Eastern bloc countries crippled themselves trying to match them."

While the Cold War had somewhat of a lasting impact on the financial well being of the United States, so did the technology that was used during the war. The cold war was said to be fought with artificial intelligence including nuclear weapons. Throughout the war there were several indirect wars that took place and many nuclear threats made by the Soviet Union the United States. It was reported at one time that the Soviet Union planned to parade through the United States with nuclear weapons which resulted in the U.S. making threats to invade Cuba. In result of the nuclear weapons issue it caused both the United States of American and the Soviet Union to build up huge arsenals of atomic weapons and ballistic missiles. (Prabhakar Pillai, 2000).

Another consequence that took place in result of the Cold War was America becoming the sole empire of the world. After the Cold war the United States had made many treaties with different countries in agreement to stick together. The United States also gained more power when the Soviet Union feared that America would use the Western Europe as a base to attack them and resulting in the Union to collapse in 1991 which marked the end of the Cold War. By the United States becoming number one in the nation could be both beneficial or a nightmare for everyone. By America being on top this meant that they would be the resource to everything. Better jobs, pay, education, and even welfare. As time has passed this has still continued to be a consequence that other countries have been unfortunately faced with because in some form or another they have still had to turn to the United States for one resource