.:The Impact Of The Korean War On The United States:.

A NORTH KAREA THREAT

DURING THE LATE 1800”s and early 1900s, U.S. president worried about NORTH KOREAS PROGRAM TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS. By 1994, the situation had reached a crisis. Some U.S. scholars and government official feared another war might start on the peninsula. Talks on both sides helped end the crisis and improve relations between the two countries for a time. Still, the U.S. military experts predicted the North Koreans would eventually build nuclear weapons that would reach the United States.

George W. bush became president in 2001, he considered that North Korea is a threat to the U.S. security. Bush’s suspicions increased on North Korea after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and in Washington D.C.

Bush was convinced that North Korea was one of three nations that sponsored terrorist acts around the world. North Korea was also considered a threat because of its effort to build weapons of mass destruction. In 2002 North Korea announced it had broken an agreement stop its development of nuclear weapons.

It made it in to the war-addicted country it is today. During the cold war a large proportion if the budget went towards the military and technological research, forging the US armed forces into one of the most technologically advanced militaries in the world. During this time the US made DEW, NORAD & NATO.

Politically: Perhaps most famously, Americans strongly connected with the idea of a distant and ideologically foreign enemy. The "Red Scare" refers to a period of intense paranoia in the United States when even the accusation of communist ties could bring a person's career to and end and destroy a reputation. Joseph McCarthy held a series of hearings before the House Committee On Un-American Activities which served almost as show-trials, fueling the atmosphere of fear and anxiety.

Economically: The Cold War created an impetus for the continued upkeep and expansion of US military capability after the end of WWII. This diverted billions from social programs and to a great extent undid many of the formative political changes brought about by the great depression. While Johnson's "Great Society" programs addressed some of this shortfall, the financial constraints imposed by the ballooning budgets of the military contributed to the prevention of the development of a welfare state as we see in modern day Europe.

Ideologically: In identifying the USSR as "enemy" the United States sought to reject the ideals most commonly attributed to Soviet Communism. The hammer and sickle, long images of the power of the working class, vanished from American art (1930s vintage buildings in New York still have some embellishment that pre-dates the Cold War and such symbolism is present there). Moreover, the United States strongly rejected socialism and socialist political initiatives, further compounding the budgetary issues created by increased military spending.

Physically: The Cold War was not always cold. Thousands of Americans died in Korea and Vietnam. The United States has maintained bases around the world to better project American power into the USSR. The losses these conflicts produced can not be over-stated and the establishment of permanent overseas bases created the notion of the "military brat" an entirely Post-WWII phenomena.