Containment – An Age Of ParanoiaEssay Preview: Containment – An Age Of ParanoiaReport this essayContainment – An Age of ParanoiaQuestion: To want end could the era that Containment Policy was centered be considered an “Age of Paranoia” in the United States of America?Content/Outline:I.Introduction [of thesis statement]i.Assume that the reader has already read the definition on Containmentii.Hint conflicts to be used lateriii.Closing sentenceII.Fear of Russiai.Iron Curtain [and events that required US demonstrations of power]ii.Propaganda of the USIAiii.SAGEIII.Fear of Internal Instabilityi.Communismii.Crimeiii.LiberalismIV.Fear of the Unknowni.War and the Domino Effectii. “The Bomb”iii.The Universe – UFOsV.ConclusionWith the clash of Capitalist and Communist ideology, the United States had to go great extremes to maintain national security and demote Russian invasion. Hence, the era of the Containment Policy is – in principle – an age of paranoia for the United States of America. After the Second World War, no one ever wants such a catastrophe to even happen again – and the fear of such an event coming to pass was astronomical; and with such fear of the collapse of Democracy, the nation of the United States – now handed the reigns of international security – had to ensure the stability of their own nation and that of others.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Stalin was on the move to expand the USSR and this raised many fears of an eventual Russian invasion into the United States itself. Not only that, but the Americans had to restore the crippled European countries that were no match for the Soviets. With that, the Americans had an immense weight on their shoulders to establish a bloc power against Russia. Beyond that – the the Americans had to persuade other civilian populations [and their own] that they were doing a just cause; they used the United States Information Agency to spread their own propaganda to make their actions just in the eyes of the populous to ensure security. Lastly, the SAGE air defense program was the greatest extent of American paranoia of Soviet Russia. SAGE,
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(March 19, 1945) – The Pentagon was convinced that it could not simply make its new home in America with the help of the US military.
By the spring of 1945, US General Howard Hunt was the first senior Pentagon official to publicly demand the surrender of the Soviet Union. In this sense, the decision was all but clear. Washington accepted the Soviet Union’s right to exist as a legitimate nation on a free world stage by a pact signed in 1953. And it did so without the Soviet leadership ever meeting its prerequisites, such as independence and a free and independent Europe. While Washington had been committed to the USSR’s survival, for some reason the Soviet leaders realized that no one in the United States wanted the future of their own country. In a March 19 incident, General Hunt and another US military man, General Richard Myers, were forced into a meeting at the U.S. Naval Air Station Charleston between the Secretary of Defense and the President when asked, “When you ask why the President cannot do more, you’ll see from the history of how one was sent there – it’s why your old guys are with the Soviets.”
Sgt. Richard Myers received a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union calling for war with the Soviets, claiming the President should “destroy an entire country in one fell swoop”.
The US military had to rely mainly on the Russian disinformation campaign against the US, including its own and the USSR’s efforts to gain the support of non-Sikh and non-Sunni opposition forces, to win the war. The disinformation campaign could bring much more than a few thousand American prisoners to their graves as well as much other American assets. Once the US learned from the Soviet record that the Americans were doing the worst [they needed to “find out”], it could do little else other than to use the disinformation campaign to try to obtain as much as possible American support to the Soviet cause. Moreover, from the first moment that the CIA was ever exposed, even before the assassination of Ronald Reagan, American morale was already on the run as well. The US government had already worked to subvert foreign policy by its propaganda arm, the State Department, to gain control of the public conversation in America about the Soviet Union. As the US military waged a full range of propaganda against the Soviet Union, the US government wanted the public to believe that the only real “problem” with the USSR was that it was not a Communist dictatorship but an “enemy power” which was controlled by the KGB, the KGB. However, although the US military was unable to maintain any sense of security despite their efforts, their efforts were still aimed at obtaining Soviet support to build military units in the western cities that they wished to protect against Soviet expansion. In this way, the covert military campaign against the Soviet Union led to further development of US military capability. US military operations against the Soviet Union were still being conducted in the name of national security as planned by the Pentagon at the time, but as soon as their objective were