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US - INDIRECT CONTROL MULTI-FACETED POWER
CULTRUAL
Western popular media – cinema and literature – sought to highlight differences in political systems and society. USSR was portrayed through tales of poverty, espionage and paranoia to generate suspicion around the nation, and to illuminate differences across superpowers
Hollywood was used as a tool to 'act in the nation's interests' - propaganda was a key tool to project 'American values' and juxtapose freedom with communism
When the USSR began overtaking USA in terms of numbers of nuclear warhead, Christianity was used as a vehicle to condemn nuclear weaponry shaping the USSR as immoral, war - mongering and without values
POLITICAL
foreign policy for the USA during the Cold War was dominated by containment of the USSR and of communism. the USA used the spread of democracy and capitalist values to contain the USSR's influence and isolate communist states across the world. NATO is a clear example where the USA used political allegiances to directly confront the USSR. Europe become such a significant site of Cold War geopolitics in action, with NATO nation in the West separated from the Warsaw Pact countries by the iron curtain
MILITARY/ECONOMIC
Operation Cyclone
USSR invades Afganistan (1979)
US foreign policy = containment of communism
C.I.A financially backing Afghan rebles - covert investment
1979 $700,000
1987 $600 million
biggest ever financial investment
military hardware, arms and intelligence
USA economic muscle
1989 USSR withdraw - closely followed by the collapse of the Berlin wall
Pakistan recipient of military hardware and aircraft
the USA also gave substantial loans to the UK following WW2 as part of the Marshall Plan. The USA provided up to $13 billion (now equivalent $114 billion) Western Europe in 1940s and 1950s. The reason - a modern, developing, liberal Western Europe provided a sting frontier against the spread of communism from the East