John le Carré: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold This book is a spy story‚ about bluffs between the British Secret Service and the German Democratic Republic. I found it very difficult to understand. The stroy occurs during the Cold War‚ in the 1950s and 1960s. The main character is Alec Leamas‚ a british agent in charge of East German espionage. He is recalled to the Circus‚ because there are no agents left. Control asks him to ’stay in the cold’. That means one last mission for
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pivotal time in the Cold War between democracies and communist governments‚ particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War caused the two major powers to clash‚ leaving people in fear of a nuclear war. U.S. officials had the near impossible task of predicting the endeavors of Nikita Khrushchev‚ the leader of Russia (Targeted News Service 1). The Berlin Crisis was a conflict of interests that caused the separation of Germany. As one of many conflicts of the Cold War‚ the Berlin Crisis
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Containment was a policy used by the Americans used stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine
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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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1. What is the symbolism of the term “Iron Curtain”? Line separating Eastern (Communism) and Western (Not Com.) Europe 2. What decisions were made at Yalta‚ and what role did they play in the emergence of the Cold War. Allies would remove industrial machinery‚ railroad cars‚ and other equipment from Germany as reparations. And the polish government would be set up by the Soviets they promised it’d be free elections but they broke their promise and that created alot of tension. 3. Why did
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The Cold War Era Lizette Martinez Kaplan University SS310 Sec.25 Exploring the 1960s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Ion Motkin August 16‚ 2011 The Cold War Era The cold war era was a depression period of time for the American families. The Soviets sent the first satellite‚ sputnik‚ into space in 1957 using soviet superiority in the space as a crude threat against the American people due to lack of understanding and constant provoking between the democrats and the communist (David‚ 1994)
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Truman and the Cold War I. Postwar Domestic Adjustments A. Initial faltering economy – inflation rises‚ GDP down‚ strikes 1. Taft-Hartley Act – put limits on labor unions a. Outlawed closed shop‚ labor leaders take non-Communist oath 2. Sold war factories cheaply to private companies 3. G.I. Bill – paid for school for soldiers; home‚ farm‚ and small business loans B. GDP growth lasts next two decades – Americans – 6% of population controlled 40% of earth’s $ 1. Middle class
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Daniel Perez Pd.1 Apr/12/13 Essay Outline (Cold War) Germany: In what ways and results was Germany the key focus of the early stages of the Cold War? Thesis: Germany had been the early stages of the Cold War in which the Berlin wall had symbolized as well as different views of Germany that led to additional tensions. Part 1 Yalta -Potsdam -Tension because of disagreements -reapportions Blockade -West views was different from the east views -removal of blockade Berlin Wall “Iron
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After World War II was over‚ two super powers emerged in a tight bipolar system - the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War began in 1947 when the U.S. “openly stated its opposition to Soviet expansion” (Roskin & Berry‚ 2010‚ p. 9). However‚ as the 1960s approached‚ it was becoming clear that the influences of these truly great powers were declining (Hermes‚ 2001). Kennedy’s doctrine couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time. His attest to the importance of flexibility essentially
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CHAPTER 1: WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR * Periods of hostility and high tension between two great post-war superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR in the period of 1945 – 1989 * An ideological conflict * A conventional and nuclear arms race * Wars fought on proxy on the battlefields on Asia‚ Africa and Latin America * Economic rivalry * Development of huge espionage networks * Harry S Truman: “the war of nerves” COMMUNISM VS. CAPITALISM THE WEST | THE USSR |
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