World War II caused the Cold War which led to making a huge impact on the 1980’s. The Cold War went on for many years after the war and affected how everyone lived each day. The Cold War also affected entertainment over the years. A lot of settings and plots in films‚ television shows‚ and books took place in the Cold War‚ or stories about World War II. The Cold War took place between the USA and the USSR. Many arguments had to do with capitalism vs. communism. Both were longing to have expansion
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The American Civil Defense program during the cold war reinforced American cultural ideals of individualism and self-sufficiency. During the cold war there was fear of the other countries use of nuclear weapons against the United States. Since this fear was gradually increasing throughout the U.S. president Truman established the American Civil Defense program to help protect citizens if there was a nuclear attack on American soil. Because of the increased fear of a nuclear attack the government
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The complex dynamic between the Soviet Union and the United States of America was not ever present‚ but evolved out of a series of key disagreements during World War II. With the onset of Operation Barbarossa‚ Nazi Germany shifted emphasis from an already dominated Western Europe to its eastern border with Russia. The betrayal of the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact came as a surprise to Stalin‚ who quickly began mobilizing fighting aged men to bolster his vulnerable ground defenses. The resulting
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Effects of the Cold War on Canada The distrust between the Western World and Communists‚ as well as the conditions after WWII caused the Cold War to begin. From 1946 to 1991 a mass arms race rose and Canada was stuck in between the grudge of capitalism and communism. The Cold War affected Canada through Canadian citizens fear of being nuked‚ sexism against women and the unfair treatment towards communists & socialists. With Canada’s ally the United States partaking in the Cold War with the Soviet
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The Cold War began because the Soviet Union felt like they were the only ones contributing to World War II. Joseph Stalin‚ former premier of the Soviet Union‚ had trust issues regarding his allies‚ which are identified as the United States and Great Britain. Many deaths‚ secrets‚ weapon advancements‚ and destruction of property played a role in Stalin’s belief in being the only contributor during World War II. Unfortunately‚ this led to the Cold War. A chart showing the costs of World War II‚ comparing
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Revolutionary War was also known as the American War for Independence fought between Great Britain and the original 13 colonies; Connecticut‚ Delaware‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ New Hampshire‚ North Carolina‚ Pennsylvania‚ Rhode Island‚ South Carolina‚ and Virginia. The Revolutionary War was fought for independence from Britain and unity of the colonies; this eventually led to the development of the United States as an independent nation. The American Civil War was a war between
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The Cold War triggered an explosion of growth and interconnectivity. And it came close to triggering several other literal explosions. Global economy changed abundantly because of the cold war. Fighting broke out in many developing countries‚ stunting the growth of their economy‚ and widening the gap between the poor and rich. Other developed countries spent exorbitant amounts of money stockpiling weapons. Although the cold war did not have all good effects on the economy‚ it did lead to
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Truman administration simply assumed‚ or perhaps hoped is a better word‚ that the American atomic monopoly would somehow intimidate the Soviets from breaches of the peace for fear of precipitating an all-out war. But if that was Truman’s intention‚ it did not appear to work. The bomb was supposed to be the ‘winning weapon’‚ but by 1948 it was abundantly clear that the West was neither winning the Cold War nor preventing Moscow from
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Although I think that a lot of people think of Reagan when they think of the end of the Cold War and the collapse‚ to give him the whole credit for the triumph or victory is wrong. From the beginning of his presidency Reagan wanted nothing more than to see the Soviet Union fall or to at least stop growing. He and many others looked toward our military to be ready for in that readiness he said we will find Peace. His administration spent billions of dollars on defense contracts to research and develop
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Time Period 8 Study Guide 1. The economic growth following World War II was caused primarily by the efforts of the president and the federal government in response to fears about another Great Depression as 1946-1947 put America into a postwar recession. The Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944‚ otherwise known as the GI Bill of Rights‚ allowed the 15 million veterans returning from the war to continue their education through government grants. The federal government also allowed veterans over $16
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