The Cold War was a battlefield of spies‚ espionage‚ and counter espionage. Information was the deadliest weapon and security and survival were at the center of the dispute. Both sides were mired in uncertainty‚ acting with the utmost care to avoid fatal missteps. They relied heavily on their espionage services to supply intelligence on the real intentions of the opposing side behind the public posturing. Nowhere in Europe was more heated than Berlin at this crucial time. Military forces of the Western
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The Cold War was borne out of two fundamentally different forms of governing a society: capitalism and communism. Opposing ideas have never been clearer in history then when looking at the capitalist United States and communist Russia immediately after World War II. Who is to say that free enterprise is wrong? Who is to say that all people working toward the common good is wrong? Sadly‚ strong opinion coupled with intense fear on both sides could have been disastrous for mankind. While the Cold
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The Cold War was a time of immense fear in the United States and the Soviet Union. Secrets‚ spies‚ and distrust had created a tense brinkmanship that would last for decades. Although fighting never took place the back and fourth threats were enough to keep both countries on edge. The war in its entirety was rooted on differing ideologies‚ but the dissimilarities between our two countries‚ which played a keep role in the wars creation‚ originated long before the events of the Cold War began to unfold
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Question1 Containment was the foreign policy put forth by the United States to challenge Russia during the Cold War (Kennan and Containment‚ n.d.). This Policy was based on a letter written by George Kennan called the X Article (Jones‚ 2008). The letter called for the United States to contain communism from any further expansion. Under President Truman‚ this became policy and would continue for many years and Presidents after him. Since the letter did not define the terms on how to contain communism
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The Cold War happened during the world War 2‚ the UNited States and the Soviet union fought as allies against the Axis powers. The Cold War supposedly never heated up into actual armed conflict. So it was never really a war. There were wars involved like Korea and Afghanistan or United States and the USSR. That relationship was real tense. This war for geopolitical reasons. The cold war is !ore like a time period from 1945 to 1990. After WW2‚ the United States and USSR were the only two nation
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soviet threat When Truman became President‚ on April 1945‚ US‚ Britain and SU were in the same alliance against Germany and Japan. At that time‚ only SU and Mongolia were official communist countries. The events about soviet treat came fast. After the war‚ communist governments were installed in Poland‚ Romania‚ Hungary‚ Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia‚ forming the "Soviet Bloc”‚ under the soviet dominance and control. With the Red Scare in the back history‚ all the recent communist aggressive movements
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Influence of the Cold War The decades following World War II were all centered on the concept of decolonization‚ the dismantlement of Imperial empires established prior to World War I throughout Africa and Asia. Due to the aftermath of World War II‚ countries around the world experienced massive independent movements whose objective was to eliminate colonization and form new independent nations. The process of decolonization was separated by three different approaches: civil war‚ negotiated independence
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After World War II‚ two superpowers were emerging‚ the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic. Tensions rose between the two‚ eventually starting the Cold War. The Cold War was a state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet Union and The United States during the years 1945 and 1990. The soviets and americans clashed on many topics‚ mainly the constant fight between communism versus democracy and capitalism. A multitude of propaganda was being utilized on both sides
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How far did ‘peaceful coexistence’ ease Cold War tensions between the Soviet Union and the USA in the years 1953 – 1961? The term ‘peaceful coexistence’ refers to a theory developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War that said capitalist states could ‘accept’ each other. This policy began just after Stalin’s death on 5th March 1953. 1961 is significant here because it marks when the Berlin wall was put up overnight on the 13th August‚ demonstrating the end‚ from a Soviet perspective‚ of the
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The Cold War happened between the years of 1945 and 1991‚ it was a time of military‚ political‚ and economic tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Just after the second World War had ended‚ complications came up around the area of international power‚ who would gain more power and who would lose power. The main thing the Soviet Union attempted to do during this shifting of power was they tried to gain more territory in order to solidify their spot as a world wide power‚ while the
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