You are to correlate the projection of America abroad (foreign policy) with civil rights activism (domestic policy) supporting my argument that the Cold War ideology enabled the Civil Rights movement to be as successful as it was.

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A Correlation Between the Ideology of the Cold War

and the Success of the Civil Rights Movement

After the Second World War , America continued to face a lot of internal and external pressures and issues as it transcends into becoming the powerful nation and icon of democracy that the country is known for today . Externally , the United States faced a long term trouble with the Soviet Union that resulted to what was known as the Cold War . There were deep-rooted ideological , economic

, and political differences between the United States and the Soviet Union ' even before the World War II and from 1945 to 1989 (H . W . Poon . Other than the fear of one dominating the other in terms of global power , America and Russia do not agree in the way a country is supposed to be run and how the people should be treated

For many decades , these two countries were immersed on besting out each other that resulted to the historical events of the Cold War . But other than the war with Russia , America also faced other internal issues , the most significant being the Civil Rights Movement of the Black American against the racism and discrimination they were experiencing in the nation . The Civil Rights Movement from 1955 to 1968 proved to be one of the first victorious attempts of the Black American to dissolve segregation in the nation and achieve equal rights with other Americans After analyzing the overlapping occurrence of...