The Cold War was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The west was led by the United States and Eastern Europe was led by the Soviet Union. These two countries became known as superpowers. Although the two superpowers never officially declared war on each other‚ they both sided with different countries in proxy wars such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War. They also fought each other in the arms race and the space
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The Cold War The Cold War was the period after the World War II of political conflict and military tension between the USSR and the United States of America. It lasted from 1945 to 1991‚ with the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). As the name indicates‚ it was a “cold” war; this means that no actual bullets (or any other kind of weapon) were fired between these two factions‚ although many conflicts during the war were propitiated and supported by them. Some of the biggest
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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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fact that the odds were in the favor of the U.S. from the beginning. They had the advantage of money‚ supremacy‚ and the ability to protect Europe with its weapons‚ army‚ and such‚ while poor Europe was rebuilding itself from the damages done in World War II. Not to mention they were being controlled by a horrible dictator‚ Josef
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Following the end of the Second World War‚ relations between the Soviet and the Western bloc deteriorated quickly. British prime minister Churchill said that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was like ’an iron curtain’. Relations were generally tense during the ensuing Cold War‚ typified by spying and other covert activities. The British and American Venona project was established in 1942 for cryptanalysis of messages sent by Soviet intelligence. Soviet spies were later discovered in Britain
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Cold War Review Questions 1. After defeating the Germans‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were two nuclear-armed superpowers. 2. Containment is the purpose of which was to resist the extension of Soviet expansion and influence in the expectation that eventually the Soviet Union would collapse from internal pressures and the burdens of its foreign oppression. 3. The United States tried to contain the Soviet Union in the East of Europe. They were kept in Russia‚ Germany‚ and Vietnam
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During the Cold War‚ Poland was under Soviet influence. Poles had a difficult time practicing their religion. Due to his country’s inability to practice Catholicism‚ Pope John Paul II grew troubled. This led to June 2nd-8th 1979‚ when the Pope visited Poland to awake the religious zeal and pride under the weight of the Soviets. Pope John Paul’s interactions brought hope and faith to Poland and influenced Gorbachev and Reagan. Before his life as Pope‚ Karol Jozef Wojtyla‚ raised in Poland‚ learned
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Stalinism undoubtedly contributed to worsening Russian-American tensions that resulted in the start of the Cold War. Levering states that the ideology based on Marxist principles was not one that encapsulated the views of the Russian people at the time as a whole‚ but rather the doctrines of solely Russian rulers. Leninism didn’t allow for capitalist USA to cooperate to the extent it was willing to and even those within the Communist Party such economist Eugen Varga were disregarded for having this
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Republic likely would have taken a far different path going into the Cold War. As it was‚ the Soviet rescue increased the popularity of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia and established it as part of the Soviet sphere of influence in eastern Europe‚ which lead to forty years of oppressive communist control‚ nearly as miserable for the Czech as life under Nazi occupation. Still‚ life seemed hopeful after the end of World War II finally came. Though the communist party had gained immense popularity
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Huang 1 Zhanchuo Huang Professor Anderson English 2‚ Final Draft 11 December 2013 Secret: Production over Safety “Production takes precedence over safety” was a quite common idea in Rocky Flats during the Cold War (Iversen 409). In Kristen Iversen’s non-fiction memoir‚ Full Body Burden‚ she investigated the top secret about Rocky Flats – the nuclear weapons plant. She revealed the truth for the innocent citizens lived near around the radiation area and unfolded the concealed information of
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