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    Thw Cold War

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    The Cold War as it is called was a war that started because of tensions between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. The tensions that developed were primarily over military‚ political‚ cultural and social ideas that varied greatly between the two nations. Each Nation and its allies developed a distrust that would last for many years and introduce new military and political methods that would shape our future. The Cold War was not a war as we would think with destruction

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    Sputnik and the Cold War

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    Russian Studies On October 4‚ 1957‚ when the Soviet Union Launched the first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik I‚ people all over the world would see a new age of technology. The launch of Sputnik added a lot more tension to the cold war. While the Sputnik launch was a single event‚ it marked the start of the space age and the U.S‚ U.S.S.R space race. The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement‚ Sputnik caught the world’s attention and put the American public

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    all was when japan decided to attack Pearl Harbor. The incident occurred on the morning of December 7‚ 1941 but the tension and actions that would lead to this conflict had begun long before that in the 1930s. “During the 1930s a combination of the Great Depression and loses during World War 1 led America to take more of an isolationist approach when it dealt with foreign affairs” (History.Gov). They advocated non-involvement in European and Asian conflicts and non-entanglement in international politics

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    Causes Of The Cold War

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    today. World War One‚ World War Two‚ the Cold War all come from the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. The victims were the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ Franz Ferdinand‚ and his wife Sophie. They were returning from an official visit to City Hall. The assassin‚ 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip was a Serbian nationalist. He thought the death of the Archduke was going free his people to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. But how could the death of one person cause the biggest wars of the last

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    Cold War Winner

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    was a complete victory‚ with Chiang Kai-Shek‚ the opposition leader‚ completely pushed out of China and into Taiwan. The U.S. did not manage to contain communism whatsoever‚ and its assistance to Chiang Kai-Shek did not help his victory. The Korean war is yet another example of the U.S. being unable to contain communism‚ even with its own troops. Although the U.S. pushed the border all the up to China‚ Chinese troops were able to push them down until the armistice settled upon the 38th parallel as

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    Nicholas Powell Dr. Reinhold Wagnleitner Fall 2014 American Power in a Globalizing World How has globalization impacted American power following the Cold War? Since I am not only a History major that has been focusing on both American and European history‚ I am also a Global Studies minor. One important conclusion that I have come to is that the events in a particular location‚ usually have global ramifications. Ramifications normally present themselves in the form of changes in policy‚ research

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    Decolonization Class Notes

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    Britain had set up colonies in North Africa and India in the 17th century. This brought Britain into conflict with France in the 18th century. The Seven Years War was the turning point in the British Empire. In 1759 the city of Quebec was captured from the French in Canada. Two years earlier‚ Robert Clive won the battle of Plassey that led the way for the British to dominate India. Defeat in the Seven Years War (1756­1763) and revolution in 1789 injured the French empire. France was able to regain their strong position and amassed a huge empire in North

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    Jfk and the Cold War

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    The Cold War (1945-1991) was basically an ideological standoff between the ideas of Communism supported by the Russians and Democracy/Capitalism supported by the Americans. Communism is a political ideology which has the central principle of ¡§communal or communist ownership¡¨ of all property and therefore the abolition of private property. Democracy is a form of government in which the people vote‚ have a representative government and via these representatives ¡§govern themselves¡¨. During the period

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    Cold War Escalation

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    I believe that there were three main events that caused the escalation of the Cold War. This essay is going to assess how these three events contributed to the escalation of the Cold War and how important they were to its continuation. In my opinion the first strains in the relation between the two sides started at Potsdam more then at Yalta. When we look at Yalta we only see agreements such as "Hold free elections in Soviet occupied territory"; "Set up UN" etc. but it’s in Potsdam that the first

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    example‚ World War I we have thrived on making a new and perfecting old military weapons. We haven’t only advanced in making weapons we accepted the idea of daylight savings this idea was used throughout World War I because of the lack of coal which was used for light. By pushing the clocks an hour ahead people were able to use one extra hour of daylight. However‚ the idea was cast aside for a while after the war‚ it eventually came back and stuck. At another point in history‚ The Cold War we began using

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