The Cold War on the Home Front -during the Korean War

INTRODUCTION : THE COLD WAR

Throughout World War II and its immediate aftermath , the policy of the United States has always been based on the principle that the peace and security of the postwar world should be guaranteed by the projected international organization , which would settle disputes among the Nations , known to this day as the United Nations (U .N . The main purpose of the said organization is to extinguish the need to resort to traditional power politics in resolving international issues . The United States was hoping that this would result to the

withdrawal and dismantling of its military forces from the ravaged parts of Europe This Concept unfortunately did not come to materialize and would have to be abandoned because it has become apparent that the said notion would not work amidst a rapid territorial expansion being done by the Soviet Union . Because of this , the inevitable face-off between the United States and the U .S .S .R took place

The Cold War is an event which took place almost immediately after the close of World War II . The war was called as such because although it was a balance of power contest essentially in a class with the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars , it was different from them since the military combat which had took place was merely incidental The reason for this is because the development of nuclear armaments made any resort to military confrontation between the two combatants so far-reaching ' in its likely consequences causing both parties to be extremely wary of armed combat , an event which may indirectly cause a nuclear weapon powered third World war . With some exceptions , of which the major ones would be the Korean War and the Vietnam War

The American Journalist , Walter Lippmann was the first man to popularize the term Cold War which was a term taken from a book with a similar name . On one side of that contest was the U .S .S .R , which in the final stages of World War II had extended the area under its domination to include all of Eastern and Central Europe up to the line from the Western Baltic Sea in the North to the Adriatic Sea at Treiste in the South . On the other side were the United States and later a coalition of European States under U .S leadership . Over the next few years , the emerging rivalry between these two camps hardened into a mutual and permanent preoccupation . It was this phenomenon which led to the formation of The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N .A .T .O ) on 1949 by the Western States led by The United States , and the U .S .S .R dominated Warsaw Pact which was born on the year 1955 . Although centered originally in Europe , it was inevitable that these two superpowers would come into blows in a lot of local conflicts in almost every part of the globe . The Combatants in the beginning are almost evenly matched . The U .S .S .R...