The Cold War was not won on the battlefield by the United States but instead won through the economic side of war because the Americans had alot more money than other counries. When Ronald Reagan came into power as the United States 40th President his thoughts on economic growth being most effective by lowering the publics barriers to produce services. This economic way of thinking was called "Reaganomics". It had four main foundations that involved the reduction of: government spending, federal income tax and capital gains tax, government regulation, and tightening the money supply to reduce inflation. The whole bases of Reaganomics was to use the United Staes strengths against the USSR. The Strategic Defence Initiative which was refernced to Star Wars was created to prevent missile attacks from Russia. Because of this idea of Star wars the US had installed into the Russians minds, they wasted extensive amounts of money trying to match the US and solve the problem, but the russian never could get to the US level and pulled out. Destroying their economy. This left the United States way a head of Russia with their economy. The US used their strength -money- against the Russians and prevailed in winning the Cold War through economics.
The four detente factors worked together to prevent nuclear involvement in the wars. The procedures that greatley impacted this movement was the Nuclear non- Proliferation Treaty, Ostopolitik, Helsinki accords and the Salt Talks. Personally, I think that the Treaty of non-Proliferation would have had the most impact on the world at the time. The creation of this treaty was successfully established in 1968. This treaty acted as an influence on various countries around the world, to remind them of the negative impact nuclear weapons have. Documented in this treaty it was clear that if a country did not already have nuclear weapons they were bound to the word and not allowed to begin creating them. This treaty was the powerhouse behind limiting nuclear weapons to only five countries the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and China.
The U.S has fought in many wars and won many battles through out history on this planet, and yet one that stands out the most is for its role in changing American citizens attitudes of war and the fact that the cruelty was broadcasted. This war may have not been an actual defeat for the military but more so America as the people frowned upon and questioned what was actually happening in war and when troops where sent to fight. This created a domino effect as the U.S pulled out of Vietnam, the surrounding countries became communist that same year. The whole Vietnam crisis is mainly seen as failure as the U.S did not really achieve anything other than becoming more scrutinized and known for the brutality. This showed the Americans had weakeness in certain area's at the time and wasnt completley putting communist to bed.
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