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    Cold War The Cold War was a time of major conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that started after World War Two. The Cold War dominated international affairs for many years and the space race and the arms race developed because of this competition. By the end of the 1980’s each side had spent trillions of dollars to possess nuclear weapons and the means of delivering these weapons on their enemies. Though many Americans were against the use of nuclear weapons‚ because of the

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    yifeng 11235946 Gened 111-16 The cold war The Cold War was out broke between the 1940s to the 1990s. It was the conflict between the United States and the USSR together with their respective allies. The powers at war engaged in boosting their respective defense systems that led to massive spending of their national resources.( Ronald 157) The Cold War was surely expressed through in many areas‚ according to Ronald Kidd(2009)‚ author of The

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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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    Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies Timothy J. White For Americans and many in the world‚ the Cold War dominated international relations from 1945-1991. Only the nuclear balance of terror prevented this uneasy peace from becoming all out war‚ and few if any events could be understood outside of the context of this bipolar rivalry. As the Cold War came to an end‚ some thought we had witnessed "an end to history."(1) Instead‚ we have witnessed a fundamental change

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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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    After the Second World War ended the Cold War began. The Cold War was a struggle between America and the USSR. The cold War impacted places all around the globe such as Latin America‚ Asia‚ and Europe. During the Cold War the continent of Europe was divided. (Doc. 1) Western Europe was non-communist while Eastern Europe was communist. During the Cold War the U.S and USSR were known as the superpowers. The American led military alliance was called Nato while the Soviet led alliance was called

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    directly‚ were actively engaged in the Cold War. This war did not end until the USSR broke apart in 1991. The Cold War was both created and prolonged by the interconnected economic and ideological tensions of the East and West Blocs. The ideological systems of the two powers were viewed as being complete opposites in their goals and experienced increasing animosity toward each other. This in turn influenced the economic policies that drove the main powers of the Cold War even further apart. By far‚ the

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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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    The Cold War: the Balance of Power & Strategic Deterrence When I was in the White House‚ I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30‚000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. Jimmy Carter Cold war (a term coined by the English writer George Orwell) was a prolonged state of military and political tension between the two major powers that emerged at the end of the second world war‚ namely The Union

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    The Cold War Michelle Goon SS310 Exploring the 1960’s Professor: Karen Lloyd Unit 2 Assignment Date: 2-12-2012 The Cold war started in 1945 and lasted until 1991 (Timeline of the Cold War‚ n.d.). During this time the world had many political views and agendas to deal with. There was the election between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960 and the election of Kennedy into office in 1961 (Farber‚ 1994) . There were mixed views on the types of government and the battle between countries to maintain governmental

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