American Studies Unit Test Study Guide 8 Cold War Conflicts * Communism: state controlled all property and economic activity; totalitarian government with no opposing parties * Capitalism: private citizens controlled all economic activity; people vote * Distrust: (USSR) Stalin resented the Western Allies’ delay in attacking the Germans in Europe and US’s secret development of Atomic bomb; (US) Stalin’s 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler‚ and he prevented free elections in Poland
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One Critical Book Review October 3‚ 2010 Cold War-Period 1 Ivan Denisovich Shukhov was sent to a Soviet concentration camp‚ he was accused of being a spy after being captured by the Germans. He was not a spy but was still falsely punished by the government. My favorite quote of the book is‚ “Can they even tell what the sun to do?” This portrays that when the Communist Party declared that the sun reaches its high point of the day at one instead of noon. He is saying that the Soviet Union controls
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After World War II‚ came the Cold War. From 1945 to 1960‚ the role of communism vastly influenced the United States and left the country infused with fear. This fear significantly impacted the country as a whole‚ as well as the individual citizens. The Cold War was unlike most previous wars‚ for it was fought through confrontation and verbal threats rather than the use of military forces. However‚ it still widely impacted America. Thus‚ it is evident that although there was a rise of tension between
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Nuclear weapons in the Cold War changed how wars were fought because it was the beginning of an era where wars were no longer fought in the conventional sense. The creation of nuclear weapons meant that people lived in a constant state of fear of nuclear war. In order to ensure national security and protection states‚ primarily the United States and Russia the leading superpowers in the Cold War‚ needed to have a strong deterrence policy to prevent the other state from launching a nuclear attack
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The cold war was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union. The conflict was about democray and communism. In the late 1950’s the "Red Scare" came upon The US. The "Red Scare‚" in the US was the fear of being taken over by communists. In the US communism was viewed as treason. One of the causes of the "Red Scare‚" were the Roseber trial. The Rosenbergs were thought to have given high classified information to the Soviets.Some of effects were internationally‚ The Iron Curtain‚which was an imaginary
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In the historical disputes over Ronald Reagan and his presidency‚ the Berlin Wall speech lies at the center. In the ensuing years‚ two fundamentally different perspectives have emerged. In one‚ the speech was the event that led to the end of the cold war. In the other‚ the speech was mere showmanship‚ without substance. Both perspectives are wrong. Neither deals adequately with the underlying significance of the speech‚ which encapsulated Mr. Reagan’s successful but complex approach to dealing with
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LIBERALISM IN POST COLD WAR SCENARIO: ROLE OF NON-STATE ACTORS By: M.Sc Student Jawad Falak Course Title: International Relations Since 1945 Roll No: 2013 Semester: 2nd Submitted to: Sir Aleem Gillani Department of International Relations National Defence University Islamabad Abstract In the contemporary world‚ the battle for dominance for the political systems to govern International Relations is still raging. The end of the Cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union
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in March 1947 that the USA would “support free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures”1. This announcement made it clear that the USA had no intention of returning to isolation as she had after First World War‚ she was committed to a policy of containing communism‚ not just in Europe‚ but throughout the world‚ including Korea and Vietnam. After the Truman Doctrine was announced‚ Secretary of State General George C.
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THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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Madi C. The division of Berlin among the allied forces after World War II was a compromise that provided the United States with their primary weapon in defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War conflict. Victorious‚ the Allies began to divide and occupy the battered and weakened Germany on June 5‚ 1945. Areas in the western portion became American‚ British‚ and French zones‚ whilst the east was given to the Soviet Union. They will be more commonly known later as the eastern and western zones‚
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