The end of the cold war has given the United States much more advantage in shaping its policy choices because uni-polarity ceased the opportunity of regional players that they enjoyed within the bipolar world System. Rajesh Rajagopalan explained in his article ‘Extra-regional Powers and the Emerging Security Scenario in South Asia’ that it was the regional powers‚ India and Pakistan‚ that achieved their strategic objectives by subverting American and Soviet agenda in this region. T.V. Paul also
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“announcement” of the start of the Cold War(History.com). At this time the term was first used to refer to the actual metal barrier that cut the continent in two‚ but it soon became a reference to the ideological barrier also. The iron curtain is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact Countries NATO countries after the Cold War in 1991(wisegeek.org).The iron curtain extended the borders of Europe and the barents sea to the black sea. World war one was also one of the main reasons
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Cold War Fears DBQ Essay Deep Patel Harry S. Truman has now his terms as president. A new president has stepped up to the plate‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower. However‚ Eisenhower needs to pick up where Truman had left off. He has to keep the country stable and deal with foreign policies. But‚ Eisenhower needs to face another issue at hand. With the Cold War going on‚ Americans are starting to fear the aftermath of the Second World War. From things like the Red Scare to the spread of communism
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global nuclear war‚ with the two most powerful nations‚ United States and Soviet Union entangled in a standoff. The Soviet Union‚ under Premier Nikita Khrushchev had secretly deployed medium range ballistic missiles and intermediate range ballistic missiles to Cuba with Cuban leader Fidel Castro ’s consent. The missiles which posed a direct threat to U.S cities‚ military installations and the general population were intended to counter a strategic imbalance between U.S.S.R and U.S incase war erupted‚ given
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During the Cold War‚ both USA and USSR have faults. But Stalin’s action was most to blame. He has the most aggressive actions compared to the actions done by USA. He did not keep his promise which he had agreed at the Yalta Conference. He had dominated the countries in East Europe and spread Communism‚ causing dictatorship and people imprisoned due to the disloyalty towards Stalin. Also‚ a lot of Stalin’s actions had offense USA. However‚ things done by Truman such as the propagandas posted and increased
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The Space Race and the Cold War “That’s One Small Step for Man‚ One Giant Leap for Mankind”. These words were heard worldwide when astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped foot on the moon. When the Apollo 11 mission launched on July 16‚ 1969‚ carrying astronauts Neil Armstrong‚ Michael Collins‚ and Buzz Aldrin‚ the world was immersed in the middle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union which had in essence split the globe into two radically different ideologies that
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The Cold War was the economical‚ political‚ and militaristic rivalry between the Soviet Union and the U.S. The competition although tense never resulted in actual shots being fired or a hot war. The Cold War began after the unraveling of the alliance of the two nations after the surrender of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II and the replacement of former President Roosevelt by former President Truman. Truman did not have the natural skills in political maneuvering that Roosevelt had and
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1955‚ President Eisenhower announced that the United States would launch a man-made satellite into the unexplored universe‚ thus beginning the space race. At this same time‚ tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were rising as the Cold War was ongoing. Since the competition between the countries was higher than ever‚ not four days had passed since Eisenhower’s announcement before Russia announced their own plans to go to space. The technology to do this amazing feat was yet to be discovered
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a direct result of the Cold War era. The Intelligence Community grew from the 1980’s‚ to more than 100‚000 federal employees working throughout 25 organizations specializing in numerous different aspects of collecting and analyzing data. After the Cold War ended the number of agencies and employees were reduced due to reduction in budgets and the military intelligence suffered the deepest cuts. However‚ the vast intelligence capacity had grown so large during the Cold War era that our enormous capacity
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start of the Cold War following the end of World War II on September 2nd‚ 1945. The uneasy alliance between the Big Three powers - the United States‚ the United Kingdom‚ and the Soviet Union - began to quickly deteriorate after the demise of Nazi Germany and the surrender of Imperial Japan. Without a common enemy‚ the ideological differences between the Western powers and the Soviet Union became more pronounced. These irreconcilable differences marked the fundamental origins of the Cold War. Brief
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