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 disagreements start to emerge. For example they did decide on a
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Indeed‚ Truman was the initiator of the “containment” policy‚ applied during the entire Cold War. His main actions were the German airlift‚ Korean War‚ the creation of the NATO and the creation of NSC-68 (which recommended increasing the military budget three-fold). Then‚ Eisenhower greatly expanded this policy. More than containment‚ Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John Foster Dulles wanted to “rollback” the communist extension. He also increased the tensions of the arm race with his “massive
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The Cold War was a “global; power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1945 to 1991” (textbook page 511). In 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union defeated Germany in World War Two. After the war was over‚ both wanted to be the leader of the world. The two countries remained allies with each other until communism began to spread in Europe. The spread of communism caused Americans to fear communism which lead to problems that affected the United States domestic
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Korean War: Impact on the 20th Century (Korean War. Digital image. Amvets.org. Korean War Veterans Association‚ n.d. Web. 03 May 2013.) Dillon Matthews 5/7/13 Period 3 Whats the point of a war when the winning country loses approximately 36‚000 men for no territorial gain‚ compensation‚ and they weren’t doing this to defend their own territory? The United States‚ over a period of about three years‚ spent what is estimated to 678 billion dollars in todays money on the Korean war. These are
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conceding to the dominant power which immediately gives up one’s freedom by letting them control you. This motivated the two superpowers in the Cold War as neither country wanted to concede to the dominant power. The Cold War had no large scale direct fighting and instead was political and military tension between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union and United States‚ opposing forces‚ pursued the desire to gain power and spread different systems of government by claiming land and forming
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11th of January 2012 How important was Berlin to the development and outbreak of the Cold War‚ 1945-1961? The first period of time we need to look at is the year of 1945‚ when the Second World War ended. This was also the year when the Yalta‚ in February 1945‚ and the Potsdam Conference‚ in July 1945‚ was hold in order to discuss certain problems and plans that occurred or should have been done after the end of war. The tensions‚ which had lead to the beginning of the Cold War started to emerge more
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Spies in the Cold War Spies had a great role in the cold war‚ a lot of spies were in different areas to find out what other countries were doing or planning to do to then bring back the information to the country they were working for. There were many types of espionage in the cold war for different countries in order to find information that can lead to a victory in the war. I will need to research the different types of espionage there was and what they were looking for‚ I will also need to
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Currently‚ there are several hundred foreign military bases globally‚ most of them owned by the United States. These foreign military bases arose after the allied victory in the world wars and during the Cold War. Each of these military base was put in place either with a specific security goal or for overall regional stability. While some of these bases were acquired through force‚ such as the ones in Germany‚ Italy‚ and Japan‚ others were gained in support of allies‚ such as the ones in England
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The Holocaust had a tremendous role in World War II. It was a mass murder of six million Jews‚ Gypsies‚ and homosexuals. However‚ the main people who were captured‚ persecuted‚ or turned into workers were the Jews. Adolf Hitler‚ the third reich at the time‚ thought that the Jews were a subordinate race and a threat to Germany’s racial community. Hitler believed that the other races didn’t harmonize with the Germans. The Holocaust began in 1933‚ the idea of the persecution of the Jews happened well
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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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