. It was truly the first documentproclaiming the United States as the “World Policeman” against Communism and justamplified the fact that America is no longer an isolationist country and our involvementin the global spectrum became very evident. The other very significant document inAmerican Cold War foreign policy was NSC-68, a document brought together by theNational Security Council in 1950, a relatively new organization set up to create adepartment of defense, as well as the Central Intelligence Agency. This document justexpanded thoroughly on the Truman doctrine, and packed the muscle behind America’snew foreign policy. NSC-68 called for an immediate upgrade of our defense systems. This was a pure military move, and would cost over $35 billion dollars a year. The threatfor massive retaliation started to surface from this as well, and the threat of a nuclear warwas ever-present, especially with the Russians successfully testing an atomic bomb in1949. This just called for an increase in nuclear armament, and if a war broke out, thisdocument would guarantee that if the United States would have to fight to the death, theywould, and they would also go down in a blaze of glory if necessary. This marked thefirst guarantee of a massive military response to any Communist forces wanting to testthe waters of democracy. This was also about the time where the “rollback” theory cameinto play, and Americans debated about not just stopping but penetrating any Communistmovements. These bold documents from the United States marked the beginnings of theheight of the Cold War that would come about roughly ten years later, where if a largescale battle broke out with Russia or China, human and land losses would be atrocious.The origins of the Cold War would be one-sided and incomplete if it did not include the actions that were occurring in Russia. An unorganized government, lead by adrunken and insane leader who ...
