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    Cold War Tensions

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    The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was one of the defining conflicts of the twentieth century. Tensions between America and Soviet Union grew out after World War. The Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union went on for much of the second half of the 20th century. Rivalry led to raised tension‚ mutual suspicions thoughts concerning each other and last an array of worldwide incidents that brought the world’s superpowers close to a disaster.

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    During 1950‚ in an effort to reduce the military budget‚ President Eisenhower created the “New Look” Policy as a way to maintain security against the Soviet Union. He developed the “New Look” Military in order to intensify containment and deter the expansion of Communism. Although this was his intention‚ a closer examination shows that this policy during the Cold War was only successful in reducing military spending and did not contain the spread of Communism to other countries. President Eisenhower

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    Dominos

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    customers to keep coming back. CASE EXAMPLE Loyalty programs such as the Woolworths Everyday Rewards and Coles Fly Buys Loyalty reward program scheme help maintain a customer relationship. This highly successful marketing strategy was introduced during the early 1990s by the Coles Fly Buys program and was followed in 2007 by the Woolworths Everyday Reward scheme. These schemes offer rewards to those loyal customers who spend specified amounts of make repeat purchases. Qantas is another company

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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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    History Notes on Cold War

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    Nagasaki and Hiroshima Stalin was angry that Truman had not told him at Potsdam about the atom bomb (Trust issue) 1949 USSR developed atomic bomb  meant nuclear war‚ could be nuclear destruction‚ series of tense confrontations. Makes people careful and think twice before waging war. Nuclear bomb stopped cold war from getting to a “hot war” The USSR and Eastern Europe – The Iron Curtain End of WW2 the Soviets liberated countries from Nazis Countries were replaced with Soviet communism occupation

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    The Cold War (DBQ)

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    The Cold War The Cold War was "the struggle for global power between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II" (History book‚ pg. 874). The Cold War began by controversial wants and needs from two different countries and several different "weapons" were used to fight this controversial war. The feuds eventually kept building up‚ greater and greater‚ resulting in one great war. Two countries‚ the United States and the Soviet Union both took part in fighting. According to the

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    The cold war was marked by a conflict that spanned from 1947 to1991 involving subtle surveillance in the biggest cities of the world to violent battles in the tropical jungles of Vietnam. Its general ideas were for the United States to hinder the spread of communism or for the Soviet Union to expand their communist government. With this the cold war largely influenced the economic‚ revolutionary‚ and humanitarian aid of both rivaling nations for areas that suffered the most after World War II. Their

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    History: Cold War (Review)

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    History Unit 5 Test Review Cold War: refers to the period after the Second World War between 1945 and 1990‚ when increasing political and diplomatic tension between the West/United States and the East/Soviet Union created a constant threat of war. There were 2 speeches given in 1946 that alerted the world to the growing tension between the soviet and western world. 1. Stalin’s “Two Hostile Camps”: In February 1946 Stalin gave a speech to voters in Munich in the speech he predicted that the

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    World War II and the Cold War The world was left unhappy after World War I and another war broke out‚ World War II. This was followed by yet another war‚ the Cold War. The aggression of European and Asian dictators led to war. These dictators were totalitarian dictators. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens’ lives. One of the most infamous dictators of all time‚ Adolf Hitler‚ was the despot of Germany. Hitler created Nazism

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    Cold War 1960

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    The Cold War – Conflict of 1945 – 1960 The cold war was the conflict that happened during the time period of 1945 through 1960 between the democratic nations led by the United States and the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union. The cold war was fought in the most part by using propaganda‚ the economy‚ haggling with the occasional military clash. The politics of the cold war is mostly theory but can be categorized as a struggle to expand‚ contain

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