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    Jfk and the Cold War

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    The Cold War (1945-1991) was basically an ideological standoff between the ideas of Communism supported by the Russians and Democracy/Capitalism supported by the Americans. Communism is a political ideology which has the central principle of ¡§communal or communist ownership¡¨ of all property and therefore the abolition of private property. Democracy is a form of government in which the people vote‚ have a representative government and via these representatives ¡§govern themselves¡¨. During the period

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    events of 1945-1946 turn war-time allies into Cold War enemies? During the Second World War‚ the United States and Russia had been allied in order to defeat Nazi Germany. However‚ following the end of the war and the victory over Germany‚ relations between America and the Soviet Union began to decline‚ culminating in the Cold War. Whilst the orthodox view of the Cold War‚ as held by historians such as Thomas Bailey‚ is that Stalin and the USSR were responsible for the start of the Cold War in their

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    The Cold War (MKULTA)

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    Following the end of World War II in 1945‚ the United States economy began to prosper. However‚ the end of the war brought on another kind of war‚ the Cold War. With suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the United States began to conduct research on alternate means to protect the national interest through an improved interrogation processes. One of these highly classified programs was known as “Project: MKULTRA.” According to Dr. Horowitz (2001)‚ the basis for MKULTRA

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    The Cold War (DBQ)

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    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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    Cold War Dbq

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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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    Cold War Globalization

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    Nicholas Powell Dr. Reinhold Wagnleitner Fall 2014 American Power in a Globalizing World How has globalization impacted American power following the Cold War? Since I am not only a History major that has been focusing on both American and European history‚ I am also a Global Studies minor. One important conclusion that I have come to is that the events in a particular location‚ usually have global ramifications. Ramifications normally present themselves in the form of changes in policy‚ research

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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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    Phases of the Cold War

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    After the Second World War‚ the USA and USSR became two Super Powers. One nation tried to reduce the power of other. Indirectly the competition between the Super Powers led to the Cold War. Then America took the leadership of all the Capitalist Countries. Soviet Russia took the leadership of all the Communist Countries. As a result of which both stood as rivals to each other. Definition of the Cold War: In the graphic language of Hartman‚ “Cold War is a state of tension between countries in which

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    Cold War Diplomacy

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    The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy The Cold War was the dominant conflict of the Twentieth Century. More than any other event‚ it defined the roles that virtually all nations played for almost 50 years. It was a truly World- Wide War‚ a content between two rival superpowers between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which for many years held the entire planet hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation. By the time it was over‚ its players had spent the staggering sum of $15 Trillion (Windle‚ 2011).

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