Many political events occurred during the 1990's, inside and outside the United States, and many ended up resulting in years of terror.
As the U.S. was repairing its relationship with the Soviet Union, the government put into action a treaty that would reduce the Soviet’s chances of building more nuclear weapons. President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union signed the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty on July 31, 1991, alongside President George H.W. Bush, and would last until 2009. The treaty was designed for the benefit of the Soviets and other countries threatened by them. Earlier in the 20th century, the Soviet Union was in a race to build the strongest army, make the most weapons including nuclear and artillery, and to expand communism. With the new leader knowing the Soviet Union had to change it’s ways, the U.S. took the opportunity to instill a prevention plan in hopes that the Soviet Union would comply and cause less of a threat to the world. Soviet Union’s gain was that it was finally beginning to end its days of being seen as a threat to others so it could build better relationships with countries that were once enemies to help build its economy.
When the country of Iraq started to be seen as a threat to the United States’ citizens and its trade with the oil companies, the United States government knew it had to figure out a way to make sure it wasn’t going attacked and the economy wouldn’t be in jeopardy. Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, started to become very reckless and non-compliant with the United Nations and the United States. Hussein’s efforts to disregard other countries wishes of seeing if they had weapons of mass destruction left the U.S. no choice but to help support a new democratic government in Iraq. The U.S. efforts to help kick Saddam Hussein out of power was to be seen as a helping towards the Iraqis, enemies of Iraq, and the United States. The U.S. felt the need to liberate the Iraqis from an awful ruler, based off of U.S. standards, so the civilians would not be in danger of being victims of the supposed weapons. Other countries that weren’t friendly with Iraq and the United States were helped with this new act. It was a first step in helping the national safety of every country that felt threatened by Iraq. The United States also benefited by trying to get a democracy in Iraq because it would have better dealings with a country of the ideas and interests.