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    The Cold War era in the United States was a time of fear and anxiety. Tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States had risen to such a level that every interaction between the two nations presented a potential for danger. The film‚ Dr. Strangelove‚ directed by Stanley Kubrick in the early 1960s‚ portrays a scenario that is frighteningly plausible to the American people by playing off of their sense of foreboding and apprehension in order to make a point about powerlessness of the average

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    Event that led to the Cold War There were many events that took place after World War 2 that set in motion the Cold War and continued creating tension. Many of these events involved many countries and/ or their support either financially or with military personal. The main focus of the Yalta conference was to plan the post war world. In other words‚ Roosevelt‚ Churchill‚ and Stalin met and planned what they would like to happen after the war was over. Germany invaded Poland‚ their government

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    pivotal time in the Cold War between democracies and communist governments‚ particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War caused the two major powers to clash‚ leaving people in fear of a nuclear war. U.S. officials had the near impossible task of predicting the endeavors of Nikita Khrushchev‚ the leader of Russia (Targeted News Service 1). The Berlin Crisis was a conflict of interests that caused the separation of Germany. As one of many conflicts of the Cold War‚ the Berlin Crisis

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    in US leadership that would shape the war effort. They devised a military strategy of attrition through tactics of search and destroy‚ covert operations‚ and other factors in hopes of wearing out the enemy. While their strategy found some success on the battlefields‚ the ineffectiveness of search and destroy missions‚ the over emphasis on body counts‚ and the disconnect between everyday soldiers and their superiors about defining success would doom the US war effort. Argument In the

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    The American Civil War‚ a war that pinned the U.S.A against herself and created a rift between North and South. This complex war lasted about four years in which both sides suffered great casualties. Due to the intricacy of the Civil War‚ there is much that can be learned from what occurred over those years before during and after. The most interesting aspect of this civil war is actually the politics behind it. Specifically how Lincoln was able to change what the North was fighting for. After

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    1. What is the symbolism of the term “Iron Curtain”? Line separating Eastern (Communism) and Western (Not Com.) Europe 2. What decisions were made at Yalta‚ and what role did they play in the emergence of the Cold War. Allies would remove industrial machinery‚ railroad cars‚ and other equipment from Germany as reparations. And the polish government would be set up by the Soviets they promised it’d be free elections but they broke their promise and that created alot of tension. 3. Why did

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    The Cold War and U.S Diplomacy politic 300 07/31/2011 The Cold War Diplomacy When most people think of President Kennedy’s Diplomacy efforts‚ they will often refer to situations that were resolved using the doctrine of flexible response. This is when the military and White House planners implemented a policy that offered them a range of options to choose from: in dealing with a host of threats. These included: the increased use of conventional forces to small and large nuclear weapons

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    United States in 1846 was not justified in going to war with Mexico.  The United States did not have proper justification to respond with violence against the Mexican government.  The war with Mexico was also a product of the United States’ belief of Manifest Destiny.  Polk’s over ambition to seize new territory from the Mexicans and disappointment over their refusal to sell him California also possibly played a factor in his willingness to wage war against Mexico. The United States under the leadership

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    and did such things to Mexico‚ why were they the ones to declare war on Mexico? The Mexican War began in 1846 after Mexico opened fire on Americans north of the Rio Grande‚ which happened to be the Texas-Mexico border. As a result of this event‚ President Polk declared war between the two countries‚ although‚ due to prior events‚ it seemed more reasonable for Mexico to be doing so. The United States was not justified in going to war with Mexico because they robbed land from them‚ brought slaves into

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    Among the superpowers vying for dominance during the midst of the Cold War‚ smaller nations often struggled for simple rights and their own independence. The most widely-recognized and successful one of these revolutions‚ in addition to being largely bloodless unlike the dozens of others during its time‚ was in India‚ led by Mahatma Gandhi. In the aftermath of the World Wars‚ a lot of Asian and African nations attempted to gain independence and recognition‚ giving birth to the term ‘decolonization’

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