Describe the international and domestic issues of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

There were domestic and international issues that we faced because of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The international issues centered on the spread of communism. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism to various parts of the world. They tried to spread communism to Western Europe. We responded with the European Recovery Program, which offered aid to countries fighting the spread of communism. We organized the Berlin Airlift to respond to the Berlin...

There were domestic and international issues that we faced because of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The international issues centered on the spread of communism. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism to various parts of the world. They tried to spread communism to Western Europe. We responded with the European Recovery Program, which offered aid to countries fighting the spread of communism. We organized the Berlin Airlift to respond to the Berlin Blockade. They also tried to spread communism in Asia. We went to the United Nations to get help to remove North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union, from noncommunist South Korea. Our goal was to prevent communism from spreading.

We also were concerned the Soviet Union wasn’t following through on agreements it made with the British and with us at the end of World War II. The new government in Poland had few pre-war members in it, and there didn’t appear to be free elections. The King of Romania said he was forced to have a communist government, which violated the Declaration of Liberated Europe.

There were domestic issues regarding the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Many Americans were concerned that communists had infiltrated our government. There was a concerted effort to hunt down the alleged communists in our government. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, many people were accused of being communist and had to fight to restore their reputation, which was no easy task to accomplish. Many people in our country were concerned that we had fallen behind the Soviet Union when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space. This led to the formation of NASA and led to an increased emphasis on math and science education in our schools. People in our country were also concerned about nuclear war. People began to build their own bomb shelters to hopefully protect themselves in the case of nuclear attack.

The Cold War had a significant impact on the United States domestically and internationally.