the whole questions is, wat was at least one action the united states should not have taken during the cold war becuz its outcome had more negative effects than positive? incude these to support ur questions:\n-involvement in wars\n-support for foreign leader\n-money spent on anti-communist cause\n\nplz help me, i need the answer now!!!!!
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They shouldn't have been so lax in dealing with the USSR.  An extra involvement in a foreign war; such as a well-placed nuke on the Kremlin, would have helped end the cold war and negated the modern influx of communism and socialism into Western Europe.
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it was the U.S. trying to stop the spread of communism. pesidents such as Truman used this as a foreign policy. Truman created the Truman Doctrine which orignated when Greece and Hungary were being supressed by Communism. They requested help and Truman said that the U.S. would provide money for anyone trying to stop communism.\n\nNATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was also created to stop the spread of communism. it was basically a pact between european and american countries that they would help eachother resist communism and an attack on one was an attack on all.\n\nVietnamn: we went to vietnamn to stop communism from spreading to south vietnamn. but we sucked and basically failed because saigon fell to communism after we left.\n\nthe cuban missile crisis: JFK learned that the soviets were putting missiles and bases in Cuba. HE spent 13 days negotioating with the soviet union and eventually got them to stay out of cuba if we removed our missiles from turkey and promised to stay out of cuba.\n\ni can't think of anymore right now but theres a lot.\n\nthe marshall plan was also created after world war two to keep communism out of the weak european countries.
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Where you from, la la land?\n\nHow many times has the United States gone to war without first attempting to solve problems diplomatically?  I'd say protecting our country from nuclear weapons and helping to defend entire countries is worth going to war over if necessary.
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well maybe you should have researched from a more historical point of view, right from the monroe doctrine to american-mexican wars to present. you will find that americans have been meddling in the affairs of other countries right from its inception, first in latin america and after WWII, in other countries (when it emerged the only unscathed and extremely wealthy nation in the world). so in the eyes of majority of people around the world, (and here i am talking about people who think for themselves, not people who are easily led by popular media, which is usually pro-US anyway), americans have always been viewed as cavalier adventureres at best and murdering cowards at best, who bomb impoverished countries from heights before moving in their army. even when the americans are not directly involved (as in physical presence of armies), they usually have a hand in almost all politics of the world, by more subtle means-economic warfare....\nall this is being exposed daily, mostly thanx to the internet, and needless to say, world opinion has turned sharply anti-american especially after the cowardly iraqi war that the yanks waged. \nso 'bad guys' yeah, americans are being considered more and more of that which is unfortunate really because the most spirited and creative resisitance to the american policies have come from within US itself. unfortunate, yes....understandable, absolutely. america is an empire, an empire in decline.\nso perhaps americans had better heed what gibbon said about sparta, a strikingly military oriented nation not very disimilar to US\n"when sparta fell, all wondered in awe, none mourned'
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Just an escalating arms race between the US and the USSR with other lesser countries often caught in the crossfire.  There were skirmishes between these lesser countries but no actual "war" took place.  It was a big threat, that the US and USSR would begin a nuclear war.  Thankfully that never occured
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If you know the history well, you wouldn't say U.S lost to V.N, you need to look at the bigger picture during that era. I want to say that the U.S has not lost a war, yet. \n\nThe U.S abandoned South Vietnam to allie with China against the U.S.S.R during the Cold War. \n\nLogically speaking... how can can the U.S lost to a third world country back in the day...when in the past the U.S has defeated Germany, Italy and Japan, and many other countries? It's rediculous to say that U.S lost to VN.
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The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война , Kholodna-ya voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.\nThe global contest was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along cold war lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The USSR was actually the best thing to happen to the US.\n\nAt least the US had an ostensible enemy, and since a Mutual Assured Destruction was the only way to fight this enemy, War needed to be "defered" indefinately.\n\nNow, unfortunately - With the downfall of the USSR, the US has not only become a super-power, it has become a  "HYPER-power."\n\nThis makes other countries worry about our presence.\nThey believe that the US is out the "take over the world!"\n\nHell...  They can't even feed Detroit!!!!\n\nYou honestly think the US wants to take care of a bunch goat-eating Muslims who do nothing but sit in dirt all day and hum a bunch of sh-t?!?!??!?!?\n\nBelieve me, if the US wants the world,\nI'd be going to Katmandu on a domestic flight tomorrow.\n\nLighten up, world!
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In 1823, in his his 7th annual State of the Union Address, President John Monroe stated that the U.S. no longer recognized the right of any European Power to colonize in the Americas.  He further stated that the U.S. would remain neutral in any conflict between European Powers, or between a European Power and it's colonies, unless the latter was in the Americas, in which case the U.S. would consider the war an attack on itself.  We started ignoring that one in WW1 and have never looked back, the Falklands Conflict between Britain and Argentina was a clear violation, we didn't bat an eye.  Given the technology available even as far back as WW2, that kind of isolationism simply isn't an option any more.  Be nice if it was, I agree, but it ain't.
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The Ultimate War... However, one cannot assume that just because a country has a nuclear warhead they will use it... They haven't yet. America was the developer of the nuclear bomb, and we are also the only ones to have used it in a war (i.e. WWII). And we used it twice... Cuba is screaming at us, "Listen to me! We have nukes!" But they won't do shit with them. Russia, the Cold War, this Long War... All just government propaganda to get you to go along with gas prices and avian bird flu. Pride is not about nationality, it's about being a human being and being alive, for that matter... Just because your country says that you have a nuclear bomb doesn't mean they're going to use it... Just save it for a rainy day, I suppose. Just so that when everybody is dropping the bomb, that one little country (we'll call it Kerplakistan) can join in and not feel left out. If every country had a nuclear weapon, though, America would be bombed first, and we have more nukes than there are countries in the world! In conclusion, it may bring world peace, world destruction, or a wholly new world order.
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Go to this website and type in The Cold War:\nhttp://www.bartleby.com/65/
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That is a good question.  If you look at American history you can see that from the Spanish American war to now, the US has no inhibitions against using military force to support its vested interests whether they are the United Fruit company in the Central American nations, colonial commerce in China, or suppressing resistance to American occupation in the Phillipines.  After WWII, under the doctrines of Cold War\nidiology there wasn't a year we were not engaged in undermining countries with political leaders we did not like\n( Domincan Republic, Chile, Indonesia, Congo,) or creating puppet governments and fomenting civil war, ( Vietnam ).\n\nAs an American I am NOT in support of these actions,\n\nDuring the Reagan Admin, the US supported dictators such as  Park, ( S Korea), Marcos, ( Phillipines ), Botha,( S.Africa), Pinochet, ( Chile), and others that oppressed their own citizens.  This was fine as long at they opposed communism. \n\nI don't doubt in this current crusade to maintain access to oil in the Middle East, we are behaving like the Roman Empire and supporting governments that support our aims, no matter how badly they treat their citizens. \n\nI don't think Americans in general support these actions.\nTo a great extent we are goverened by corporations, big business, idiology, short term economic policy and now, \nNEOCON doctrine, wars are inevitable and beyond our ability to prevent.\n\nIn earlier history, we had a civil war over soveignity and slavery as well an on ongoing genocide of the indigenious\ninhabitants. Americans execute more people than any other country in the world except for China.  We are a violent society.\n\n  When I travel abroad, I tell people I am a Canadian.
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well, sorry, but Ronald Reagan is involved in my answer.  The end of the Cold War was a pretty major one.
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Frankly I was not aware of this till now. But I did some 1 hour research for you question and here is what I found out.\n\nKennedy used "Castro-Card" to defeat Nixon as the Cold War was in full force. But he was unaware that the CIA had all planned and was more than happy to have the hawkish Kennedy to get elected.\n\nApparently Kennedy developed cold feet and tried to avoid "US Involvement" and did some utterly stupid changes to the plan which nothing but doomed the invasion. Its the worst fiasco to hit the Kennedy Administration.\n\nHere are some links with more material for your essay. If possible buy/rent that book "Decision for Disaster: Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs ". You will blow your peers' essays with your explosive view points...\n\nAll the Best. Please do message me as how you did and what score it fetched to you..\n\n.:Fishie:.
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The reason is a mix between natural disasters and totalitarian government (cannot call N Korea's Communist because communism means that EVERYONE gets the exact same things). For those who blame the US for not helping N. Korea, please go back & check your facts because the US did try to send food & basic necessities but the N. Korean government refused it as well as they refused help from the UN & the Red Cross but mind you they (N. Korea) wouldn't mind if we were to send them money!
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If the administration would have allowed unrestricted bombing of North Vietnam from the beginning of the war. I'd said 1 and 3. But seeing how Johnson wanted to approve every target, the best choice would be none of the above.The bombing was too little too late.
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The truth is, that no American can claim credit for the end of the cold war and the fall of the wall dividing West and East! The true heroe was Michail Gorbachev! When he declared his glasnost and perestroica the future path was already visible! Under previous Russian governments, like Stalin, Chruschev or Breschniev, this would have been totally impossible! It is just a sad thing, that the world does not want to give credit to the one who deserves the credit!