Causes and Effects of the Cold War The Soviet-American combat‚ known as the "Cold War" hung heavy over global affairs for more than forty long years; structuring the world with extensive military buildups‚ an unceasing nuclear arms rivalry‚ intensive surveillance‚ and relentless technological emulations. Further elaborated are the causes and repercussions of this menacing fracas drawn upon the world by the two superpowers; the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
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the Cold War The cause of the Cold War is debatable. Because the Cold War doubles as a conflict between two countries‚ the USA and the USSR‚ and between two ideologies‚ Capitalism and Communism. Several different causes can be suggested for the start of the Cold War. During the war‚ there was a mutual understanding between the two nations‚ which however began to evaporate soon after the war. Difference in ideologies and mutual distrust between the two nations led to the beginning of cold war. Both
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Chapter 8: From a World War to a Cold War (Contains Cuban Missile Crisis) Why did Cold War break out? This portion of the content deals with the reasons for the outbreak of the Cold War between the USA and the USSR Competing Ideologies: The Cold War confrontation between the USA and the USSR was a clash between the opposing ideologies of Communism (USSR) and Democracy (USA) Supporters of Democracy felt that Communism was akin to slavery and that only Democracy could offer freedom. On the
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Joseph Stalin‚ USSR The roots of the Cold War Almost as soon as the Second World War ended‚ the winners started to argue with each other. In particular‚ a bitter conflict developed between the USA and USSR. This struggle continued until the late 1980s. Walter Lippmann‚ an American journalist writing in the 1940s‚called it a ’cold war’ and the phrase has been widely used since. Historians have produced three conflicting explanations for the start of the Cold War: 1. TheUSSR was to blame. Stalin planned
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Sean Keith AMSTU Cold War DBQ Essay The growing fear of the spread of communism throughout the World during the Cold War era resulted in the United States making brash and misguided decisions stemming from the values of the containment policy. This era was marked by concern that other nations‚ especially those in the Western Hemisphere‚ would fall to Soviet influence‚ and additionally‚ that there were communist supporters within the United States‚ potentially in government offices. Americans
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Thesis Paragraph: During the time of the Cold War the Soviet Union were making advancements and trying extremely hard to beat the U.S and still trying to spread communism all over Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan there was an Holy War going on between the Mujahideen (Muslims wanting to overthrow the government) and the Amin government (1). The Amin government was for communism‚ which is where the Soviet Union would come in (1). The Soviets would join the war to help the Amin government maintain their
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The Cold War was a time of great competition between the United States and the Soviet Union; one of the competitions being the Space Race. Due to advancements in technology throughout the world pressured by the Cold War‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were able to push their way into space‚ each trying to outdo the other‚ eventually resulting in the United States putting the first man on the moon on July 20‚ 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The United States beating the Soviet Union to
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The Cold War began because of a clash between two world superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR. These two countries were in a battle for superiority but this battle never once led to a ’hot’ war as the United States and the USSR never actually fired at each other. The main reason there was such an initial clash between these superpowers is that each country had completely different ideologies. The USSR functioned in a Communist fashion and the United States operated with Capitalism. The
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Cold War My first inclination would be to answer the first question with a clear "YES". But come to think of it‚ the causes of war really have not changed at all‚ or at least very little. Rather than changes‚ there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of war which has dominated the last 50 years was the cause of ideology. However‚ due to the recent end of the Cold War‚ this cause of war‚ has significantly declined and is almost trivial. The causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological
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Did the end of the Cold War make Europe more or less secure? In the late 1940’s Europe was divided into two separate blocs. The Cold War for Europe was illustrated by the existence of two opposed camps across a divided Germany. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 brought about a transformation in the European security environment unrecognisable from that which had existed five years earlier. The system of two militarized blocs ceased to function. The Warsaw
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