American lose of the cold war
... The Cold War was also about being the best. ... The Cold War, although believed to have won by the U. ... America won the Cold war by default, by the USSR’s economic and politic strife. ... The Cold War began at the end of the Second World War, many countries were in chaos and the great powers of the world took advantage of this and divided many of the falling countries between them. One of those falling countries was Korea, one of the first major flash points in the Cold War. ... Eventual war broke out in Korea. ... Because of this it was believed that there must be a spy telling them all of America’s nuclear secrets and the added tension of the Korean War, started the Red Scare. The Red scare was a big impact on the American people; this is when they all finally realized there really were spies. ... Although there were American spies in the USSR, the terror was not so greatly felt, they did not have McCarthy creating panic. ... America this was the first major humiliation for America in the Cold War. ... America was and is proud; to have such unrest is a great humiliation and loss for them in the cold war. ... America was far more disrupted by these first events of the Cold War than their opponents. The fighting spirit and will to be the greatest was the next reason America also suffered the most during the Cold War. ... They lost many lives of American men, many who were forced to go, because they were drafted. ... Many young men and women protested the war in violent and non-violent ways to show that they did not support America’s choice to go to Vietnam and enter a war that was none of their business. ... America’s fears did not even come into fruition; Vietnam did not create a domino effect by becoming fully communist, making the point of the war even less and even more of a failure. The war was also televised; the people of the US could now see from their own living room what was happening in Vietnam, they did not like what they saw.