The Cold War: A New History By John Lewis Gaddis
The book I had chosen to write about is The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis and it focuses on the famous historical period of the Cold war. The Cold War: A New History enlightens the reader of the major turning points of the Cold War and new insights into all. This book was mainly written to inform readers of a period in time known as the Cold war and explain reasons, background and events connected with an easy way for the reader can understand. John Lewis Gaddis has three major arguments in his book the The Cold War: A New History.
The despite United States effected to arrange mutual agreement with the Soviets Union after the war at the Yalta Conference, tension build up throughout the years that led to an even further separation between the two …show more content…
Gaddis’ clearest illustration of this argument is the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed even when it had one of the strongest militaries and also had a nuclear bomb program in place. Gaddis view the military was a conflict because rather than being result of power it was result of poor policy decisions and missed opportunities. And by this many argue that this could've been avoided by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The second argument was the Cold War dictatorships. Gaddis points out that's American, Soviet Union, China and several other countries in Europe had authoritarian government in the 1948. During the twentieth century, communism failed to deliver on its promise of providing workers with a better life fell out of there favor.
Gaddis says: “What never happened, despite universal fears that it might, was a full-scale war involving the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies…For the first time in history no one could be sure of winning, or even surviving, a great
The despite United States effected to arrange mutual agreement with the Soviets Union after the war at the Yalta Conference, tension build up throughout the years that led to an even further separation between the two …show more content…
Gaddis’ clearest illustration of this argument is the fact that the Soviet Union collapsed even when it had one of the strongest militaries and also had a nuclear bomb program in place. Gaddis view the military was a conflict because rather than being result of power it was result of poor policy decisions and missed opportunities. And by this many argue that this could've been avoided by the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The second argument was the Cold War dictatorships. Gaddis points out that's American, Soviet Union, China and several other countries in Europe had authoritarian government in the 1948. During the twentieth century, communism failed to deliver on its promise of providing workers with a better life fell out of there favor.
Gaddis says: “What never happened, despite universal fears that it might, was a full-scale war involving the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies…For the first time in history no one could be sure of winning, or even surviving, a great