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    The Bonus Army was a gathering of 17,000 U.S. war veterans and their families who assembled in Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand cash payments of their service certificates be provided in 1945 due to unemployment. However, the Bonus Army failed as the veterans were evicted from their camps by police and army troops, killing two people. The Cold War emerged as tensions grew between the U.S. and Soviet Union as the two superpowers vied for political, economic, and strategic dominance globally and the spread of communism threatened U.S. interests. Ownership of atomic weapons by both sides raised tensions further.

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    The Bonus Army was a gathering of 17,000 U.S. war veterans and their families who assembled in Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand cash payments of their service certificates be provided in 1945 due to unemployment. However, the Bonus Army failed as the veterans were evicted from their camps by police and army troops, killing two people. The Cold War emerged as tensions grew between the U.S. and Soviet Union as the two superpowers vied for political, economic, and strategic dominance globally and the spread of communism threatened U.S. interests. Ownership of atomic weapons by both sides raised tensions further.

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    The Bonus Army was a gathering of 17,000 U.S. war veterans and their families who assembled in Washington D.C. in 1932 to demand cash payments of their service certificates be provided in 1945 due to unemployment. However, the Bonus Army failed as the veterans were evicted from their camps by police and army troops, killing two people. The Cold War emerged as tensions grew between the U.S. and Soviet Union as the two superpowers vied for political, economic, and strategic dominance globally and the spread of communism threatened U.S. interests. Ownership of atomic weapons by both sides raised tensions further.

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    Bonus Army

    The Bonus Army was the common name for the gathering of 17,000 U.S war veterans,

    43,000 marchers together with their families and affiliated groups who assembled at Washington

    D.C. The demonstrators were labeled as Bonus Expeditionary Force, Bonus Army or Bonus

    Marchers. The Bonus Army was in a demonstration demanding for the redemption of cash-

    payments of their service certificates. The payment was to be done in 1945 but unemployment

    compelled the war veterans to demonstrate.

    However, the Bonus Army failed as the things they were fighting for were not

    accomplished. Instead of compensation, the veterans were evicted from their camps by police.

    They returned to the camps prompting the police tom shoot killing two people. The killings led

    to interventions by the army. They sent the marchers back home. The Bonus Army organized

    another march but the president offered them a campsite and tried negotiating a deal to end the

    demonstration.

    Cold War

    The U.S could not avoid going into a cold war. This was because, the two countries were

    supreme and stood up in politics and economy, as well as strategic interests [ CITATION

    Hen10 \l 1033 ]. The Soviet Union controlled Europe hence communism who already had parties
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    became a revolution threat to the U.S. The communists were isolated from the other states which

    increased the tension and fear among U.S. The U.S, therefore, began blocking and containing the

    spread of communism. The Soviet Union owned an atomic weapon making it useless for use of

    one for blackmail. However, the ownership of atomic bombs and weapons tensed the situation

    more raising its stakes[ CITATION Rob01 \l 1033 ].

    Works Cited
    Grogin, Robert C. Natural Enemies: The United States and the Soviet Union in the Cold

    War , 1917-1991. New York: Rowman & little Publishers, Inc, 2001. print.
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    Henretta, James A., Rebecca Edwards and Robert O Self. America: A Concise History

    4th Edition. Boston: Macmillan Higher Education, 2010. Print.

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