How does the Cold War affect how Americans view the world today?

As the War of 1812 with Great Britain approached during the Republican administration of James Madison, the War Hawks saw silver linings everywhere. "Republicans even came to see the war as a necessary regenerative act—as a means of purging Americans of their pecuniary greed and their seemingly insatiable love of commerce and money-making," historian Gordon S. Wood writes in Empire of Liberty. "They hoped that war with England might refresh the national character, lessen the overweening selfishness of people, and revitalize republicanism." The money cost of war was dismissed as insignificant compared to national honor and sovereignty. Indeed, the war was called the "Second War of Independence." Wood quotes the newspaper editors of the Richmond Enquirer: "Forget self and think of America."

b. ensure mutual protection from communism.

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depending on what kind of map for example a pltical maps works in many ways this iss how it works it shows the areas and places the democratics and the repbulcicans reside for example if   texas chooses trump for president there a republican state and if   califronia chooses hillary there a democratic state.