How the cold war promoted the civil rights movement in america, and how it promoted change

How the frosty state of struggle parentd the gracious rights sparkment in america, and how it promoted changeIntroduction. cold-blooded fight cites to the employment surrounded by the nations that affirmed socialism and they were nonched by the Soviet joint and those that support democracy and they were headed by the unite States. The polar warfare was fought propaganda, fiscal warfare, political arguments and with martial conflicts at times. The cold war is verbalize to have began around 1947 when Pre stancent Truman of the linked States affirmed his constitution against collectivism thereby provoking a cold war commenced between the unify States and the Soviet Union (Anonymous, 2002, 2). The war is said to have began as a precede of the clear cut differences in the goernance between the United States and the Soviet Union. For instance, in the United States, the domain had the privilege to select their profess leaders and again they were all in all in allo wed to come up with their own political organization and allowed the privileges to gather in the clay of meetings and issue communication (Anonymous, 2002, 3). While in the Soviet Union, the communist party had the ordinance to select the people who would constitute the organisation, they had no right to form their own political movements they were also not allowed the privilege of free communication and garner (Anonymous, 2002, 4).An new(prenominal) possible ca engagement of the conflict was as a resolve of global trade. While the United States wanted free trade among the dissimilar countries, the Soviet Union was assay to pr until nowt its member countries from trading with the otherwise countries in the terra firma. Russia for instance, was hesitant in opening up to the rest of the occidental countries through trade since it was afraid of this having an influence on its autocratic governance. This and so created a lot of tension between the United States and the Sov iet Union.At the end of the World War 2, Europe had collapsed and so the supranational antecedent was split between the United States and the Soviet Union. As a result of this, a lot of tension developed between these dickens unions as each one of them struggled to gain control over the world countries. initial war started during peace agreement conferences and it got deepened when President Truman declared his policy against communism (Dudziak, 2006, 3).The Soviet Union had already begun expanding her influence in Europe even before the world war came to an end. It did this by deploring its red army to various parts of Europe and by the time the war came to a halt, it was already in control of a larger draw of the eastern side of Europe (Dudziak, 2006,4). The communists controlled the select process in Europe and even win the first election and retained the powerful ministries of defense and military in the newly created government. Other factors that promoted the cold war wa s the Americans response to Russians influence on Europe which was rather quite negative, this furthered the bad blood between these two unions(Dudziak, 2006, 5).The reasons behind the establishment of courtly rights movements.The ingress of the United States into the world war caused it a lot for instance, a good public figure of the Americans were obligate to move into the coastal lands around the Pacific, Atlantic and the Gulf in regularize to translate labor in the war industries. At the end of the war, America was epochally better placed after the war than several other countries that had been regard in the war. The GI Bill was passed in 1944 in clubhouse to will support for the people who had been involved in the war to access didactics and economical development (Dudziak, 2006, 4).The Americans therefore looked for all the means and opportunities to rebuild their lives. though not all of them got an equal chance in exploring the available opportunities. The white s had an usefulness in all this and were able to be better placed economically than the other groups such as the Hispanics and African Americans (Dudziak, 2006, 4) These groups, commonly known as the minority groups developed an aggression in fighting for their civil rights in order to enjoy the complete rights and privileges that had been indicated in the temperament after the war (Dudziak, 2006, 5). The uprising of the civil rights movements in the US.The civil rights movements in the regular army refer to a fight especially by the African Americans to acquire equal. well-mannered rights as all the other Americans. This movements had a lot of influence on America and they lead to an improved approval of constitutional rights and it also receptive the rude to the pervasiveness and cost of racial discrimination. As a result of this, the African Americans came together with the some of the whites in the United States to protest against bigotry that was satisfying in the US. Fo r quite some time during the world war, a few African Americans had united to fight for equal rights but after the world war quite a number of the civil rights movements came into the limelight. A significant extent in the civil rights movements occurred between the years 1950s and sixties when strong civil rights lobby groups were organize and Martin Luther king Junior became the head of these civil rights pressure groups (Dudziak, 2006, 7).King arranged remonstration through public meetings, embargos and demonstrations. His presentiment was that the individuals who were seeking equal rights through tranquility and courteous would be in support of the movements that he believed supported peaceful lobbying for the equivalent privileges for both the whites and the blacks. In 1964 and1965 (Dudziak, 2006, 7), the movements succeeded in having the central government pass the civil rights act and the voting rights acts. These acts abolished racial segregation, pledged the African Ame ricans equal defense by the constitution and also guaranteed them the right to vote. Even though these acts were passed and the African American were genuinely impressed, the civil rights movements did not stop here as the African Americans keep fighting for equal remuneration and access to educational opportunities for the blacks and the whites(Dudziak, 2006,8).The cold war and the civil rights movements in the US highlight the correlation coefficient between the American approach to racism in spite of appearance its borders, across the borders and the international relations during the period just after the world war two. A weak correlation between the American home policy and unknown policy on racism and discrimination was evident during this period because racial discrimination (Dudziak, 2002, 76) economic and social inequalities and racial violence continued in the US. This sparked lot of international protests and the image of the United States became tainted international ly. It was rather absurd to have the United States trying to shape discrimination in the other countries while it could not handle the discrimination within its own walls.In order to clear up its tainted image, the United States defended itself by claiming that the existence of so many races within the country was a strong sign of racial equality in the country. The American government also decided to have control over the African Americans who were surviving in countries outside the United States they did this in order to prevent them from bringing to the international communitys attention, the reality of racism in the US(Dudziak, 2002, 79). For instance, the government seized the passports of W.E.B DuBois and Paul Robeson when they tried to expose the discrimination against the blacks in the US. A number of writers such as Richard Wright and Baldwin James were also forced to flee to other countries from those regions they continuously subverted the governments strategies and pol icies on solving the racism issue. Josephine Baker, a musician was forced to move out of the country due discrimination in the US which according to her was seriously interfering with her musical career. Even after she denounced her American citizenship, the American government continued to silence her through propaganda, liaising with the media in the countries she was to abase any information she gave and they also conducted investigations that could link her to communist governance in order to taint her name (Dudziak, 2002, 79). Even though the government was trying to silence the anti racism activists leaving outside America, President Truman tangle that as a result of the cold war that was raging between the US and the Soviet Union, it was important that societal amendments were made in order to put the US at an advantage in this battle. As a result of this, the presidents committee on civil rights in 1947 was formed this policy analyzed the need to tackle the civil rights i ssue in the country since it was seriously interfering with the countrys international relations. The President therefore recommended the senate to pass the civil rights laws that would abolish killings of the African Americans, allow the blacks voting rights and to establish a enduring civil rights body to look into the rights of the blacks. All these recommendations failed to see the light of the daylight this was as a result of the prevalence of the Southern Democrats in a number of the senate committees who had all along been opposed to granting equal rights for the African Americans and the whites(Dudziak, 2002,).Truman felt frustrated by the senates conduct and so he decided to use the authority of the administrative and the lawmaking divisions in order to handle issues change the government. He therefore decided to integrate the US Armed forces through administrative command (Dudziak, 2006, 8). He also allowed the filling of the amicus curiae briefings that were in support of the cases that were presented by the NAACP at the courts. These updates laid emphasis on the need to discontinue racism as it was becoming a drawback in Americas war against communism. The cold war therefore created a necessity to tackle the civil rights issues in the United States (Dudziak, 2006, 8).The changes brought near by the cold war.The cold war had a lot of impacts on a number of countries around the world. For instance, as a result of the cold war the communism system of governance ended, USA became the major super power, a number of the countries that had to begin with on been low the Soviet Union attained independence, the Warsaw pact got dismantled(Buzzle.com, 2005, 4), the two states that earlier on made Germany were unified again to form todays Germany after the demolition of the Berlin wall(Buzzle.com, 2005, 4), the Soviet Union crumbled, the Vietnam and Korean wars erupted and both The United States and the Soviet Union established huge caches of various ty pes of weapons (Buzzle.com, 2005, 4).Conclusion. The cold war refers to a conflict that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union while united sates supported democracy, the soviet union supported communism, this sharp differences was the cause of tension as each of the unions tried to draw a large number of the other world countries towards its ideologies. The cold war also intensified because the US acquired a lot of atomic weapons, the Soviet Unions acquisition of a larger portion of the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union was also worried about the US using the Western part of Europe to wage war against it. These factors and several others, created a serious tension between these two unions.At the end of the world war the Americans were looking for all the opportunities to improve their living standards but the minority groups such as the African Americans, Hispanics and the others felt exhaust and as a result they started fighting for the rights to enjoy the privi leges that the constitution had indicated for all the citizens. As a result of this, a number of civil rights movements were formed in order to fight for the rights of the African Americans that continuously became infringed by the white Americans. The US fought the Soviet Union by strongly criticizing its communist form of governance and this meant a war to promote human rights and democracy. The irony of all this was that the United States was also facing a serious domestic fuss racial discrimination. This made the USs efforts to fight communism futile as the foreign relations between the country and other democracies strained on the cause that the US was abating racism. President Truman therefore made recommendations to the senate to pass bill that would promote equal rights and privileges for all its citizens. But since the recommendations failed to go through the congress, Truman used his executive powers to desegregate the armed forces. In 1964 and 1965, civil rights act and the voting rights acts were passed that allowed the African Americans civil rights as well as voting rights. Work Cited.Anonymous. The postwar United States, 1945-1968. lcweb2.loc.gov. 2002. 15 March, 2010, Buzzle.com. Causes and effects of the cold war. Buzzle.com. 2005. 15 March, 2010, http//www.buzzle.com/articles/causes-and-effects-of-the-cold-war.htmlhttp//lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/postwar/postwar.htmlDudziak, Mary. Cold war civil rights. 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