When hearing about WWI and WWII in a history class it often seems as though those events that shaped today's world happened forever and a day ago, but the truth is it was more like yesterday. WWI ended only 99 years ago and WWII ended only roughly 72 years ago. The world would like to think that those events are in the past, but the truth is the next major war is just on the brink of arising. Society today is passive aggressive so arising conflicts often go unnoticed or disregarded until eventually this tension explodes. Take 9/11 for example, there was passive aggressive tension constantly due to the U.S.’s direct involvement in the middle east and eventually it erupted into the greatest terrorist attack on U.S soil. So although there
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Feeling threatened by NATO, the USSR created the Warsaw Pact six years later in order to preserve communism and their country itself. According to document #2 the United States and its allies were the members of NATO while the USSR and allies (Eastern European countries) formed the Warsaw Pact. Based on the different government types of the two alliances it can be inferred that this alliance was a matter of Democracy vs Communism at its peak and ultimately led to the famous cold war. The Cold War was ultimately passive aggressive tension and competition between the democratic U.S. and the communist Soviet Union and this tension increased the likelihood of conflict between the two nations. Even to this day the U.S. and Russia are on opposite sides of major issues and although there was not an actual fight in the cold war there's no telling what the future …show more content…
Document #5 highlights this showing the U.S and the USSR in the lead of how many Nuclear tests each performed from 1945-2016 with the U.S at 1,030 and the USSR at 715. Based on these statistics we can infer that the nuclear tests were not only to assess the power of the weapon, but threaten other nations, much like the U.S sending a rocket the moon. These specific threats were really emphasizing and showing that unspoken tension between the two nations during the cold war. Nuclear tests due to this event now have a new meaning in the world's eyes and ultimately that increases the likelihood of conflict between nations. North Korea for example has had Nuclear tests in both 2016 and now 2017 as of late according to document #5, and because of the cold war this seems like a threat. Typically throughout history when someone feels threatened conflict soon follows much like the USSR in response to
Feeling threatened by NATO, the USSR created the Warsaw Pact six years later in order to preserve communism and their country itself. According to document #2 the United States and its allies were the members of NATO while the USSR and allies (Eastern European countries) formed the Warsaw Pact. Based on the different government types of the two alliances it can be inferred that this alliance was a matter of Democracy vs Communism at its peak and ultimately led to the famous cold war. The Cold War was ultimately passive aggressive tension and competition between the democratic U.S. and the communist Soviet Union and this tension increased the likelihood of conflict between the two nations. Even to this day the U.S. and Russia are on opposite sides of major issues and although there was not an actual fight in the cold war there's no telling what the future …show more content…
Document #5 highlights this showing the U.S and the USSR in the lead of how many Nuclear tests each performed from 1945-2016 with the U.S at 1,030 and the USSR at 715. Based on these statistics we can infer that the nuclear tests were not only to assess the power of the weapon, but threaten other nations, much like the U.S sending a rocket the moon. These specific threats were really emphasizing and showing that unspoken tension between the two nations during the cold war. Nuclear tests due to this event now have a new meaning in the world's eyes and ultimately that increases the likelihood of conflict between nations. North Korea for example has had Nuclear tests in both 2016 and now 2017 as of late according to document #5, and because of the cold war this seems like a threat. Typically throughout history when someone feels threatened conflict soon follows much like the USSR in response to