COLD WAR The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COLD WAR At the end of World War II‚ English author and journalist George Orwell used Cold war‚ as a general term‚ in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb"‚ published October 19‚ 1945‚ in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating
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Bibliography: John Lewis Gaddis‚ Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy (New York‚ 1982); Melvyn P Lefler‚ A Preponderance of Power: National Security‚ the Truman Administration and the Cold War (Stanford‚ 1992). Michael H Hunt‚ Ideology and American
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The Cold War was a conflict in international politics that arose between the countries of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Especially the United States and the Soviet Union in the period from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the Soviet Union collapse in 1991. The cold war was a fight between American capitalism on one side against Soviet planned economy. The two sides warring ideologies fought each other on many areas such as militarily‚ technology‚ politics‚ economy and culturally. Especially
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outlook of communism‚ the USSR began a spirited campaign to exert its influence over other nations. On the other hand‚ America took a more defensive stance by enacting a policy of containment‚ trying to stop communism’s spread to other countries. With the sharp‚ bitter divide between capitalism and communism‚ both superpowers engaged in frequent proxy wars. For example‚ in Korea‚ people were split between whether to adopt communism or capitalism. The north‚ supported by the USSR‚ attempted to capture
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atomic bomb in 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
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support for the containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere. The Kennedy Doctrine was essentially an expansion of the foreign policy prerogatives of the previous administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman. The foreign policies of these presidents all revolved around the threat of communism and the means by which the United States would attempt to contain the spread of it. The Truman Doctrine focused on the containment of communism by
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Currently‚ there are several hundred foreign military bases globally‚ most of them owned by the United States. These foreign military bases arose after the allied victory in the world wars and during the Cold War. Each of these military base was put in place either with a specific security goal or for overall regional stability. While some of these bases were acquired through force‚ such as the ones in Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan‚ others were gained in support of allies‚ such as the ones in England
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Within just a few years‚ however‚ wartime allies became mortal enemies‚ because of military‚ political‚ economic‚ and ideological differences. The alliance that had formed between the United States and the USSR during World War II was not strong enough to overcome the decades of suspicion and unease between the two super powers. Moreover‚ as both leaders had their own objectives‚ which were often mutually exclusive‚ and neither was willing to compromise.
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America did this to show the flaws of communism and aid countries to ensure no more communism spread. This method of containment proved to be successful because Western Europe was rebuilt and used a democratic government. The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki started the Cold War by introducing the nuclear age. This resulted in an increase in atomic weaponry
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Introduction There were many crises of the Cold War which affected the World. Some of the main crises were the Berlin Blockade‚ which forced the Americans to consider attacking the Russians on the ground. The Korean War‚ which brought the USA and the USSR into full battle under the gauze of the UN army and the North Korean Army respectively. Former President of the USA once said “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
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