The Cold War The Cold War was "the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II" (History book‚ pg. 874). The Cold War began by controversial wants and needs from two different countries and several different "weapons" were used to fight this controversial war. The feuds eventually kept building up‚ greater and greater‚ resulting in one great war. Two countries‚ the United States and the Soviet Union both took part in fighting. According to the
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To What extent can USA and USSR be blamed for the start of the Cold War? After World War II‚ a new world order was created as USSR and USA emerged as the two superpowers. There were already existing tensions between these two before the war and the wartime alliance was more out of the need to destroy the common enemy‚ Germany‚ rather than out of mutual agreements between these two. It has been argued that the cold war was caused mostly by the USSR because of their Marxism- Leninism ideology and their
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The cold war was in fact the most particular war in the history of the world‚ mainly because this war didn’t have a direct conflict with the two enemy states. We learned the causes of the Cold War‚ the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan‚ how nationalism developed in the Middle East‚ how the Holocaust influenced the world‚ the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment and work of the United Nations along with the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact
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The Cold War was a time of distinct beliefs and intimidating behaviors. It all started when Soviet Union wanted to build a new communist society and spread communist ideology to other parts of the world. The opposition between the U.S and the Soviet Union lasted more than 50 years. Ethical‚ political‚ and economic factors drove to a war of major conflicts. Moreover‚ the U.S and Soviet Union’s differences in understanding policies such as the Cuban missile case‚ were just some of the conflicts that
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How far do you agree with the view that superpower misjudgements account for the development of the Cold War in the years 1945-53? The term Cold War has been used to describe the period of extreme tension between the capitalist USA and communist USSR. Many historians argue that the main reason for the development of the Cold War was the misunderstandings between the two superpowers. This view is further supported by Source 7 who states that‚ “American decision-makers misread Soviet security interests
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as the "Cold War". It could have been called this for many reasons. Perhaps it was the cold feelings between the west and the east. Or maybe it was because of the nuclear winter that would have resulted from open war. The most probable suggestion‚ however‚ is that there was no direct combat. In times of war‚ locations entailing heavy fighting are known as "hot-spots". In this war however‚ the east and the west never engaged in head-to-head combat‚ resulting in a "cold war’. Generally in war‚ battles
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The Cold War was a “global; power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991” (textbook page 511). In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union defeated Germany in World War Two. After the war was over‚ both wanted to be the leader of the world. The two countries remained allies with each other until communism began to spread in Europe. The spread of communism caused Americans to fear communism which lead to problems that affected the United States domestic
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In The Cold War: A New History‚ Gaddis reinterprets the historical record of the conflict; his sixth chapter‚ “Actors‚” focuses on the role that individuals played in the end of the struggle. Toward this aim‚ he discusses how both strengths and weaknesses of world leaders such as Reagan and Gorbachev had a profound impact on the international system during the late twentieth century. Gaddis’s consideration of “the importance and vulnerability of individuals in history. . .” extends the limits of
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the destruction of World War II‚ all major powers accepted tanks as a main part of their arsenal notably the soviet union. The Cold War had started a few years after World War II. Tanks had been an importance form governments to restrain their own people. The iconic picture of eastern Germany‚ or the communist control over eastern Europe; Tanks struck fear into the minds of many citizens (Tucker 137). The structure of the tank began to undergo many changes during the Cold War. As the 1950s came‚ nations
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The orthodox view of the Cold War’s origins was challenged by antithesis known as “revisionism”. Revisionists proposed new emphases its reasoning by stressing on the importance of American pursuit of its economic survival and that the Soviet Union was not solely to blame for the Cold War. Revisionists such as William A. Williams explained the emergence of the Cold War in terms of “dollar diplomacy”. Revisionists view the U.S foreign policy as inherently linked to the needs of Capitalism. In his
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