Emilia Grillo Cold War Literature Research Paper November 23‚ 2014 Confessions of the Cold War Contradiction Throughout the Cold War‚ the people of the United States prided themselves on their difference to the Soviet Union. They reveled in the contrast between a freedom-providing democracy and an enslaving communism. However‚ at this time there were many American citizens who felt that their democratic rights were being infringed upon‚ all in the effort to eradicate any sign of communism from
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During the Cold War period there was a conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and the democratic nations led by the United States. The United States and the Soviet Union represented two opposing government systems. One of the direct threats to the citizens of America was the possibility of a nuclear war because of the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ evidence existed to show how horrible a full-blown nuclear exchange would possibly erupt. This began because Cuba
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How Ronald Reagan Won the Cold War Ronald Reagan was the key individual whose political‚ economic and military initiatives were later responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and victory of the United States in the Cold War. The policies implemented by the Reagan Administration were released in declassified National Security Decision Directives stating to use “economic‚ military and political initiatives..[to] convince the Soviet ruling that unless it shared power
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Communism‚ weather people say it or not was the main cause of the Cold War. The Cold War started because Russia and China wanted to spread communism to every country of the world. The U.S wanted to stop this from happening. Even though it was considered a war it didn’t actually have any fighting between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The U.S. decided we did not want to have communism in our country. Karl Marx‚ the “creator” of communism created a pamphlet called the communist manifesto which explained
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Race After fighting alongside each other in the Second World War to defeat a common enemy‚ differing political ideologies resulted in high tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet communist government‚ initiated during the Bolshevik Revolution‚ posed a direct threat to the goal of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism across the globe. These rising tensions manifested themselves in the form of the Cold War-a series of conflicts and antagonism between the two nations
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Although I think that a lot of people think of Reagan when they think of the end of the Cold War and the collapse‚ to give him the whole credit for the triumph or victory is wrong. From the beginning of his presidency Reagan wanted nothing more than to see the Soviet Union fall or to at least stop growing. He and many others looked toward our military to be ready for in that readiness he said we will find Peace. His administration spent billions of dollars on defense contracts to research and develop
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Connections Between the Cold War and the Bridges of Spies Many connections such as a weakened Europe post World War II‚ tension between the U.S and the USSR‚ and a broken Germany‚ can be made between the Cold War and the film Bridges of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Matt Charman‚ and Ethan & Joel Coen. During World War II countries in Europe had many of their cities and towns destroyed‚ governments weakened and even overthrown‚ and economies weakened. During the Cold War these countries
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Reem Akram Chaudhry (History IB HL) History Arguments The Cold war – Mike Sewell Provide evidence for each of the arguments listed. 1. The cold war was brought about by the inability of the victorious powers to come to an arrangement among themselves. “The Anglo-American solidarity in rejecting the idea came as a surprise to the Soviets.” (pg 19) Ideological mistrust and memories of Munich remained strong. This was reinforced by Stalin’s suspicions that Anglo-American strategy was
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‘At the root of the Cold War was the German Question.’ Discuss. 1945 was a momentous year for change; the war was over‚ an atomic bomb had been used Germany was divided‚ decolonisation had created a power vacuum‚ and a harrowing symbiosis between America and the USSR had developed. The Cold War which subsequently arose was not like the other endemic wars of the past millennium‚ it was a combination of two kinds of war; it was both an ideological confrontation and a struggle to maintain the balance
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(Benard‚ Cheryl. “The Cold War Experience.” Building Moderate Muslim Networks‚ pp. 7–34.‚ www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/10.7249/mg574srf.9.pdf?refreqid=excelsior:ad7a721f5c5a0644a3af3d54eecf4357.). Retrieved from JSTOR The Cold War occurred in 1945-1991 it was between the U.S and the Soviet Union. The U.S wanted to spread democracy while the U.S.S.R spread communism in Eastern Europe. The Iron Curtain that split Europe had two sides; the west was the democratic and the east was the communist. The author’s
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