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    The End of the Cold War

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    nuclear explosion‚ are we going to war with America today?" This is what it was like for many people living in the Soviet Union‚ a.k.a the USSR‚ or present day Russia‚ around 1985 during the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of tension and‚ on many occasions‚ near-war conflicts mostly between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was basically started after so-called diplomatic relations between the USA and the USSR started to dissolve after World War II. The war ended in 1991‚leading to the downfall

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    Cold War and Communism

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    Assignment: Cold War and Communism David Moore HIS/130 October 23‚ 2012 Kurt Scheffler Assignment: Cold War and Communism I have served in the Armed Forces overseas and I have experienced what it is like to be under constant threat of some form of attack. Either from gun fire or random explosions it is definitely no picnic. I can only imagine the fear that the people of the day felt. The not knowing if there is going to be an Atomic Bomb drop on your city. Even with warning the chance of

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    Origins of Cold War

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    the Cold War in Europe: Stalin or Truman?” The cold war was a period of intense antagonism between the two superpowers- the United States and the Soviet Union‚ lasting from 1945-1991. Both leaders‚ Stalin and Truman‚ had a huge role to play in the cold war‚ but ultimately‚ it was Stalin who was more to blame for the origins and development of the cold war in Europe. Stalin’s foreign policy tended to be expansionist‚ as can be seen from the sovietization of Europe. By the end of world war two

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    Cold War and Communism

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    Cold War and Communism HIS/135 There are situations in life that can arise at any moment‚ without our control. Nuclear war and terrorism are two of these situations. There are things we can do to prepare for these situations‚ but are we ever really prepared? To live under the threat of nuclear war must have been terrible. To know that at any moment a something very catastrophic could happen to us and our family‚ and there are only a number of things we can do to protect ourselves‚ is a

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    The political feud between capitalism and communist regimes came to a head during hostile period of The Cold War (1947 - 1991). Ideological conflicts directly fuelled many of the key events of The Cold War‚ including the berlin blockade. The different political ideologies became the underlying motive driving the post WWII political and military hostilities with propaganda often being used to demonstrate the strong underlying corrections. America and Russia were the fronting nations in the ideological

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    Causes Of The Cold War

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    August of 1945‚ World War II finally came to an end. After six years of fighting‚ most of the world was left in ruins‚ debt‚ and overall devastation. As the world fell apart‚ so did the relationships forged during the war. The differing ideas of how the world postwar should be between the United States and the Soviet Union caused major tension and mistrust. “The Cold War first emerged over clashing Soviet and American interest in Eastern Europe” (Roark‚ pg 713) The Cold War was fought from 1947 to

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    cold war and communism

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    Cold War and Communism HIS/135 September 8‚ 2013 Jordan Billings Cold War and Communism Watching the duck and cover makes one think‚ would hiding under a desk or jacket against a wall really save someone. Seeing this makes one think if living during the time of a nuclear war would be desirable‚ not that one has the choice but it would have to be a thought. According to this duck and cover video‚ a nuclear bomb warning can happen at any time and one would find somewhere that was considered

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    Cold War Presentation

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    Cold War Presentation A General Overview The Cold War was an ideological war between the two world superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ beginning after World War Two. After the war‚ Germany was left defeated‚ and Britain and France were left drained and exhausted. The United States and the Soviet Union‚ though also drained‚ held considerable power‚ and both soon became the new world superpowers but they had "conflicting ideologies and distrust to each other and constantly

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    Cold War Escalation

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    I believe that there were three main events that caused the escalation of the Cold War. This essay is going to assess how these three events contributed to the escalation of the Cold War and how important they were to its continuation. In my opinion the first strains in the relation between the two sides started at Potsdam more then at Yalta. When we look at Yalta we only see agreements such as "Hold free elections in Soviet occupied territory"; "Set up UN" etc. but it’s in Potsdam that the first

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    India in the cold war

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    military conflict between two world powers. (Tassin‚ 149) His idea was breaking away from western politics and usher in an importance in domestic development for countries who are struggling because of the tension placed by those involved in the cold war. As the non-alignment was formed‚ it adapted the five principals of Nehru as the basis of the agreement. Comparing the five principals of Nehru with the Eisenhower doctrine‚ it would be contradictory to each other. The American doctrine would

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