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After World War I, many Americans promoted an isolationist foreign policy during the 1920s and 1930s. However, after World War II, our nation embarked on more robust, international stance in which the United States has dominated global affairs ever since.
The first phase of this change was during the Cold War. Growing out of post-World War II tensions between the two nations, the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century, resulting in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster. Both wars in Korea and Vietnam stemmed from this period.
The second phase of international engagement followed the fall of the Soviet Union. In 2001, the United States was attacked on September 11th via coordinated terrorist attacks in Washington DC and New York City, killing nearly 3000 civilians.* As a response to this attack by Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, the United States went to war in Afghanistan with the stated mission to capture bin Laden, destroy al-Qeda, and prevent the emergence of other terrorist networks. Then the United States expanded its presence militarily in the Middle East with a second war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
During the period of time after Vietnam to the wars of today, many Mountain Lakes citizens have joined and served in the military. And during that time, one Laker died serving his nation in the armed forces.
Conflicts in which Lakers Served & Sacrificed
World War I World War II Korean War Vietnam War Post-Vietnam
* Two Mountain Lakes residents, David J. Rathkey and Alayne Gentul, were tragically killed on 9/11.
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