The First Presidents of the Cold War Did you know the Cold War was called the Cold War because of the “icy” relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union. Each president had to deal with the Cold War‚ but Truman and Eisenhower wanted Communism to be contained while Kennedy wanted flexible response. It all started out with Karl Marx. He created the idea of Communism‚ which is the theory of everything being publicly owned and workers get paid based off their abilities(Ayers 756). This led to the
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The Cold War era was shaped by America’s mission to spread democracy and to perfect the world. America still tries to impose their will on the rest of the world. The Cold War liberal concept of “political religion” emerged with the thought that: “[…] man is a ’religious animal’ whose propensity to devotion can consequently be exploited for non-religious ends.” (Toscano 205) Furthermore Toscano explains that: “[...] political religions are marked by an enthusiasm for abstraction […] but in the case
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Arrived‚ at the End of the War On Christmas Day 1991‚ at 7:35 p.m.‚ the Soviet flag flying over the Kremlin was lowered and replaced by the new Russian Federation flag. The USSR officially ceased to exist on December 31‚ 1991. The fall of the Soviet Union signified the end of the Cold War (Nye 2). Obviously‚ this was a huge moment in our world’s history; a 44-year-old tension between two of the most powerful countries in the world‚ which almost brought us to a combative war‚ was destroyed. But how
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The Cold War: 1960’s The Cold War‚ was it really cold? No‚ “The term "cold war" first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called "You and the Atomic Bomb (War‚ 2017)." It seems that The Cold War started because of communism‚ and started off with the involvement of Vietnam. “Vietnam can really we consider part of the domino theory. In an interview with the press in September 1963‚ President John F. Kennedy expressed his belief in the domino theory‚ stating that "We should
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point in history. This point in history contained evidence of the roller-coaster of a relationship between two great nations‚ the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The Cold War differed immensely from other wars. The Cold War was not a conventional war between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ but more a war of threats. A well-known term during this time was “Arms Race.” This term was the race between the two nations in the development of nuclear weapons. The fear of one of these nations
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Who is to blame for the Cold War? The Cold War starting in 1945 was an escalation between two super powers that were threatened by each other and determined to prove their power. It was political conflict‚ hostile tensions and a series of miscommunications between the Communist World‚ the USSR and the capitalists‚ the United States that made the Cold War a reality. Although the Cold War was caused due to certain circumstances and miscommunications between the powers‚ the United States is largely
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The Cold War was an almost 50-year long stretch of tense relations between the United States and the Communist-ruled Soviet Union. The Cold War started very quickly after World War II and finished with the 1991 destroying of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The dread of Communism invasion in the U.S. government‚ media outlet and different associations influenced American legislative issues‚ culture‚ and even day by day life‚ especially in the early
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Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II. During the Cold War era‚ two major political beliefs were involved in the Cold War: Democracy‚ which was the US and its allies‚ and communism‚ which was the Soviet Union and its allies. The Cold War was caused by of the action’s that were taken by the USSR resulting in a Cold War. There are a lot of reasons that can show why USSR is to blame‚ however‚ the most important ones are: Stalin: the major cause of the Cold War‚ and
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key historic nature that developed in the Cold War with direct relation to fighting against Communist Soviet Union. Holding both domestic and international pillars that were statured upon military use and fighting against anything that stood for evil. Neoconcervation developed this notion of the democracy being the light of good and any competing ideology shadowed the darkness of evil. This can be directly seen with the progression Bush took against the War on Terror. Where Bush use complete and total
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The Cold World and U.S. Diplomacy The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy On April 12‚ 1945‚ Harry S. Truman‚ the Vice President of the United States‚ was elevated by the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Presidency of the United States. During Harry S. Truman’s time in the Presidential office he faced many obstacles‚ yet formed many doctrines as solutions to these obstacles. His most notable contribution to date is the Truman Doctrine‚ which focused on containing the expansion of communism
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