The Cold War Did Not Become a Truly Global Conflict Until After the Cuban Missile Crisis:
The statement allows us to examine the development of the Cold War by exploring how regional conflicts expanded into global Cold war orientating the examination around the Cuban missile crisis so as to conclude how accurate the statement is. Theodore Sorensen states, ‘When, in the late 1940's, we faced a global Cold War against another system of ideological fanatics certain that their authoritarian values would eventually rule the world, we prevailed in time…’ In consideration to Theodore’s statement which suggests the globalization of the Cold War had already begun by the late 1940s, we can assess globalization era of the cold war and explore aspects which pursue Theodore’s perception. However, I must agree to a certain extent that the statement bears much reliability acknowledging the fact that aspects of the Globalization of the cold war seemed to have been experienced before 1962.
The statement given depicts the Globalization of the Cold war to have been truly been initiated by the event of the Cuban missile crisis 1962 and not before, however, this can be argued. We discover that by 1948 the cold war had become global in areas of the Congo, Vietnam, Guatemala and in 1950 the Korean War, which involved the Americans, Soviets, PRC and other nations through the involvement of the UN. In accordance with the statement, however, we do observe significant globalization in aspects of the Cold War seen in Africa Middle East and America where major confrontations evolved to the point of near nuclear war.
The Cold War after World War II when the US dropping the atomic bomb on Japan. Russian spies got the information on how to create the bomb and Russia soon had it after. The US and Russia started having an arms race to create the first hydrogen bomb, which the US got first then the USSR one year later. Then it evolved into a spread of capitalism (the US and Western Europe) vs. spread of communism (USSR). Countries such as Poland, China, etc. fell under communism, so the US wanted to end communism causing wars in Vietnam and Korea. Already by 1940, it seemed that the cold war was having a global impact however the statement clearly states ‘fully’ thus we must pursue for firm evidence to conclude to the accuracy of the statement.
Understanding key terms will determine the interrogation of the statement. Globalization can ultimately be defined as the growth to a global or worldwide scale whereby many nations are involved. The term ‘fully’ depicts the cold war as one hundred percent becoming global after 1962.These depictions were seen after the Cuban Missile Crisis which extended the cold war into the Americas and shortly after Africa and the Middle East, where major confrontations took place.
However, we do see that before 1962, there had already been multinational involvement in the Middle East, whereby the conflicts such as the Arab-Israeli war where...