America as Superpower -- Confrontation in a Nuclear Age (1947-Present)

I. M. “Always” Wright
Assignment 3
3/9/2020
American History
Dr.Stansbury
America as Superpower—Confrontation in a Nuclear Age (1947-Present)

Introduction
Cold War was a period of political as well as social tension between Russia and the USA
along with their allies popularly known as the eastern as well as western block. Post cold war
was too filled with tensions because of the proxy wars. The aim of the essay is to discuss the
strategic concern and confrontation from cold war to post cold war.
HISTORY AND ISSUES
One of the strategic concern during the cold war was the domino theory where the USA
suggested that if one state accepts communism then the neighbouring states too would follow the
same path each will fall like an aligned row of dominos. It was suggested by President
Eisenhower thinking about Vietnam (Zobnin, 2016). The strategy was primarily devised to see
the activities of South east Asia. It was devised to support non-communism in Vietnam. They
feared that their failure to prevent communism in Vietnam had little impact than they had
thought in the domino theory (Zobnin, 2016). Vietnam war was considered to be one of the
confrontation of the USA in the cold war period and was known as the proxy war. Though the
USA and Soviet Union did not go to war however each of them supported different sides during
the war (Wiest & McNab 2016). The war was to prevent the spread of communism throughout
the Southeast Asia. It was considered as a struggle because it never took shape of the war but at
the same time it was very dangerous. The American morale had become weak after the war.
After the cold war the USA had other strategic concern relating to WMD. The latter was
considered as a political as well as sensitive construct. The USA defined it explosives and
radioactive weapons. They defined these weapons as unconventional so that they would be able
to distinguish it from munitions (Atrey et al., 2019). Throughout the post cold war they were