Cold War Dbq Analysis
For instance, the strategic position of countries has been behind foreign policy decisions taken by the United States. Let’s go back to the Cold War, when tensions between NATO and the USSR where incredibly strong and the world was threatened by a nuclear-bomb war. During this period of time, the United States was part of a group of western allies called the NATO, which was supposedly interested only in winning the war against communism. To win the war both the NATO and the USSR established military bases near both Russia and The United States. Even thought NATOS’s interest was only winning the war, the United States’ wasn’t. The United States had national defense interests for resource possession, especially ones with great significance or uniqueness for the Cold War.
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Its position makes a strategic key to the rest of South East Asia, and losing it to communism was something that the US couldn’t afford (Source 2). Zinn explains this in an attempt to make the reader realize that although the United States was interested in winning against communism, it also had interests for resource possession that would bring wealth along with trade to its allies and consequently there would be an input of wealth for it as well. Also, the United States broke Iraq’s sovereignty for allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction, which posed a threat to it. In this case, the strategic position of the United States didn’t involve the economic interests but national defense ones for sure. ProCon.org says, “Legally, the conflict regarding access for United Nations’ inspectors and possible Iraqi procurement of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMDs) had always been between Iraq and the United Nations, not between Iraq and The United States. The United States therefore has no legal right to act on the dispute
Its position makes a strategic key to the rest of South East Asia, and losing it to communism was something that the US couldn’t afford (Source 2). Zinn explains this in an attempt to make the reader realize that although the United States was interested in winning against communism, it also had interests for resource possession that would bring wealth along with trade to its allies and consequently there would be an input of wealth for it as well. Also, the United States broke Iraq’s sovereignty for allegedly possessing weapons of mass destruction, which posed a threat to it. In this case, the strategic position of the United States didn’t involve the economic interests but national defense ones for sure. ProCon.org says, “Legally, the conflict regarding access for United Nations’ inspectors and possible Iraqi procurement of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMDs) had always been between Iraq and the United Nations, not between Iraq and The United States. The United States therefore has no legal right to act on the dispute