what where the goals of Untited States foregin policy during the cold war?
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Limit the expansion of communist influence globally.
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The Soviet Union disintegrated in 1989-90.\n\nThe Post Soviet states are:\n\n* Baltic states: Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.\n\n* Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan\n\n* The Transcaucasus: Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.\n\n* The Eastern European states of Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova.\n\n* Russia because of its uniquely dominant role in the region is generally treated as a category unto itself.
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China. \n\nTaiwan was in the UN in the place of China until the 60's
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B... eventually. US took over most of Britain's mid-east role, France lost out in Vietnam and Algeria, and so on and so on.\n\nAnd the Warsaw Pact was between the USSR and Eastern European States from 1955 to 1991. Duh
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During the Cold War, many countries relied on the protective umbrella offered by the US which included troops on the ground to ensure a commitment to defend our friends if attacked.  It did keep the peace.  Now that that particular threat is over it is not surprising that many countries wish to be far more independent.  Perhaps they had to like or lump US foreign policy then, but not now.  Only time will tell whether the world is really less dangerous, especially if there is little protective cooperation against terrorism.  I believe the US has that right.
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That would be Marxism. I.e. the belief that people of Earth can leave in perfect harmony w/o wars or exploitation, "to everyone according to need, from everyone according to ability" and so on. \n\nAutocratic socialism established in Soviet Union was viewed as a temporary transition phase, necessary to fight the remains of imperializm in other countries and iniside Russia itself. \n\nI am pretty sure Lenin would disapprove of Stalin's repressions inside the country.
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"untied states"?\n\nwhere the heck is that?
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The Cold War was a very dangerous time, in which highly-organized military threats existed side-by-side with Soviet-aligned terrorists.  Any moral or national-identity clarity came from the basic need to (1) survive, and (2) prevail.  That clarity was of the same sort that Benjamin Franklin referred to when he said, "The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully."\n\nNostalgia can only come in retrospect, with the knowledge that we were going to win.  At the time, it was not necessarily a sure thing; and there always was the very real risk that a miscalculation or misperception could touch off a massive nuclear exchange.  The Cold War contained several real, full-scale wars, in which millions of people (not just our comparatively few soldiers) died.  The lives of generations were stunted as they served as pawns in proxy wars throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.\n\nAcademically and politically, I am among the very last of the Cold Warriors, studying under government officials doubling as professors as the Communist bloc crumbled.  We were no flaming liberals--we were foreign policy pragmatists who came from all over the map of domestic politics.  All of us were absolutely thrilled to see the bastards go down.  None of us wanted a rematch.  We looked forward, joyfully, toward the chance to concentrate on all the other things at home and abroad that needed attention.  Too many of those stagnated for lack of resources and attention during the long, long Cold War.
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The main American Cold War policy from that period was known as containment and was the brainchild of George Kennan. It's main doctrine was set out in a famous artcile published in Foreign Affairs called "The Sources of Soviet Conduct" by "x" who was later revealed to be Kennan. It argued that the Soviets were intent on expanding their influence and that the best policy the Americans could pursue was a strategic long term policy on countering their expansionist tendencies
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CRUSH CAPITALISM!!!!\nSeriously dude, how hard was that?  Think about Berlin, etc.  Also, a lot of the ethnic cleansing had been done in Russia by this point (enough Ukrainians killed off for Stalin).  Uncle Joe Stalin was in charge and FDR had given him rule over a lot of territory unnecessarily.  Comintern would be supported, and the Cold War against the US and the rest of the capitalist world be maintained, especially through vicarious conflicts, like the Korean War, where the Russian Communists supplied weapons and troops to a few idealogical Koreans to "give the gift" of Communism.  The Koreans requested help from the US and the Greeks, etc. (the Greeks had just recently defeated a Communist incursion).
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Yes,\nI don't have a source but i do remember when it all hit off in Afganistan after 9/11 there were reports in the European newspapers critisising US foreign policy.\nThe CIA is known to hava assisted and trained Afgani fighters, and supplied weapons. The critisism was that they assisted them in getting rid of the russians at the time and then were not happy with the resulting government and their policy's so in they went to cause some more turmoil.\nWHY?? Cos the USSR was a big enemy then.
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The USSR was bent on world domination, and we had to maintain a balance of power or face nuclear war.The arms race and space programs and Vietnam,Korea were results. Domestically, anti war and civil rights issues nearly split the country.
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America emerged as a single superpower giving rise to unipolar political world.\n\nThose fighters trained and armed by America for War against USSR were free and they turned their energies against America.\n\nEurope and China emerged more strongly on economic fronts as opposing poles to this new unipolar world.\n\nClash of Civilisation (between West & Islam) saw new dimensions with clash of ideologies
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Reaganomics was a successful strategy against the former USSR.\n\nIt increased spending on defense and military by 100X thus bankrupting the Soviet Union as it tried to keep up.
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Half of those countries are now secular enemies , so I wouldn't worry to much about a reforming of the soviet union . But Russia will never be a close friend of the US , they don't trust us and maybe they shouldn't
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Henry Kissinger, was instrumental in pushing foward the policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which led to a lessening of tensions between East and West during the Cold War. Detente led to a policy of engagement that culminated in the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. He also secured the normalization of relations with China through what has now been called "ping pong diplomacy".
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Sputnik.  The Soviet Union.