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    History Of The Cold War

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    The Cold War Between 1948 and 1991 was another time of fear and geopolitical tension. The tension came as a result of World War II and developed over a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. Historians have indicated that the Cold War began when the Truman Doctrine was signed and that the war ended when the Soviet Union collapsed. The term “cold” was used because there was no actual fighting between the two nations rather‚ the war was fought with proxy

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    Sputnik and the Cold War

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    Russian Studies On October 4‚ 1957‚ when the Soviet Union Launched the first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik I‚ people all over the world would see a new age of technology. The launch of Sputnik added a lot more tension to the cold war. While the Sputnik launch was a single event‚ it marked the start of the space age and the U.S‚ U.S.S.R space race. The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement‚ Sputnik caught the world’s attention and put the American public

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    Cold War Dbq

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    Topic: The Cold War Research Question: The fall of the mutually friendly American Soviet relations was most significantly caused by the Soviet Union expanding it borders‚ violating its allied agreements‚ and imposing communist governments on its neighboring nations. Command Term: Analyze and Explain Dates: 1945-1990 Locales: Eastern/Western Europe Events: The end of world war two and the conferences during and following including Yalta‚Potsdam and Tehran. Also informations and influence of

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    Cold War Paper

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    cold w. Conclude with one question for further study on the Cold War era Describe the historical and political conditions of the Cold War era. The Cold War is increasingly treated as a historical period that customarily begins in 1947‚ when the Truman Doctrine sought to contain communism and the expansion of Soviet influence‚ and ends with the decline and fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc in the late 1980s. My thoughts are that this event occurred after war world II between

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    Inevitability of the Cold War In the aftermath of the Second World War the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as leading superpowers‚ and while peoples of the world were ready for peace‚ the Americans increasingly saw its relation with the its former wartime ally become tenser. As a result‚ nothing dominated American foreign policy more in the post war years than the question of European reconstruction in order to counter any soviet ambitions. Before the Korean War in 1949 the Cold War avoided entering

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    Cold War Interview

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    May 30‚ 2012 Block 5 Mrs. Hughes Cold War The cold war affected many countries and people. It lasted about 46 years and it had the most casualties. It worried and hurt millions of people world wide. There was so much that happened during the cold war. Throughout the war it seemed that people all around the world were scared for their lives and their families. People that grew up during the cold war grew up around nuclear bomb threats‚ watching or listening to the news about people talking about

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    Cold War Origins

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    The origins of the Cold War lie in the differences between the systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union. It is an interplay between ideology and pragmatic power politics‚ and the creation of tension and mistrust which had been evident since the Russian Revolution. During World War II differences were put aside‚ but the problems reappeared‚ and it was a changing post-war world. There are three major common explanations for the origins of the Cold War: traditional‚ revisionist‚ and post-revisionist

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    jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” By conforming‚ it signals conceding to the dominant power which immediately gives up one’s freedom by letting them control you. This motivated the two superpowers in the Cold War as neither country wanted to concede to the dominant power. The Cold War had no large scale direct fighting and instead was political and military tension between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union and United States‚ opposing forces‚ pursued the desire to gain power

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    Citizenship In Cold War

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    way the government advanced the propaganda around nuclear war. The Air Force Association convention served as a grand publicity stunt to show the “common man‚” how prepared the United States was for defense of a nuclear war. Air Force Magazine said‚ “A trip through the panorama provided a broad education in defense.” The primary goal of both the name and the convention was to normalize the idea of nuclear war to the American people. Universities across the country were targets of this propaganda

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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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