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    John Lewis Gaddis is a history professor at Yale University‚ lecturing an undergraduate class every Monday and Wednesday on the Cold War. He wrote The Cold War: A New History based on questions some of his prior students had on the Cold War‚ as well as making a shorter‚ more understanding book for students to read. Gaddis provides a fantastic overview of the Cold War but could have organized the information a lot better. For instance‚ if he put it in chronological order rather than jumping back

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    Research and analyze the key historical steps that have lead to the transformation of the Cold War Internet to the modern day age of Internet communication. Unlike Technologies like the light bulb or even the telephone‚ no one singly invented the internet. It has evolved over time. The internet got its start in the United States more than 50 years ago as a government weapon in the Cold War. For years‚ scientist and researchers used it to talk and share data with one another. Today‚ we seem

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    policy of the United States during the Cold War. As a result‚ I spent a lot of time researching the many aspects on which he left a very visible mark. Not only did Kennan cause the creation and usage of the containment policy‚ but he also later disagreed with the way the United States government applied the policy. George Kennan provided the United States with much of the Russian and Soviet historical background information that it would know during the Cold War‚ he suggested solutions to the looming

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    instant when dropped. During the Cold War many countries built more nuclear weapons. Communism and the creation of nuclear weapons were two major problems during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and The United States were allies during WW2 but soon turned against each other after the resolution of the war in 1945. The Cold War then lasted approximately 45 years‚ when becoming obvious in 1947 and then ending in about 1991. The first obvious movement in the Cold War was when President Truman announced

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    terrorism. After September 11‚ 2001‚ America entered a period characterized by the real possibility of everyday violence on its own soil. By the time America got itself involved in two overseas wars to fight this new War on Terror‚ many Americans began to wonder whether the the U.S.’ victory in the Cold War was really a failure. There are three types of terrorism: State-sanctioned terrorism‚ terror networks‚ and domestic terrorism. State-sanctioned terrorism attacks are usually an attempt to gain

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    for the Cold War? The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) during the 46-year period following the World War II’s end‚ but before the end of the Soviet Union. It refers to the time between 1945 and 1991. The war was unlike any other war‚ because the two countries’ armies never directly went to war with each other. Many people feared that the relations would end in a nuclear war‚ but that never happened. The meaning of ‘Cold War’ is a war in which

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    After world war two‚ the alliance between the USSR and the West was conflicted. Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States over ideologies‚ through other countries‚ without direct armed conflict arose. Both groups began to doubt each other; the United States did not trust communists and the USSR did not trust capitalists. The blame to this event can probably be debated‚ but from research‚ the Soviets hold most of the blame. There were many different causes of the Cold War. One of them

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    “announcement” of the start of the Cold War(History.com). At this time the term was first used to refer to the actual metal barrier that cut the continent in two‚ but it soon became a reference to the ideological barrier also. The iron curtain is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact Countries NATO countries after the Cold War in 1991(wisegeek.org).The iron curtain extended the borders of Europe and the barents sea to the black sea. World war one was also one of the main reasons

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    of A Distressed Society Without history‚ I cannot imagine what our world or society would be like. Many events‚ revolutions‚ wars‚ and reformations have taken place throughout the course of history‚ but the era that stands out to me is the World War II and the Cold War era that lasted from 1929-1991. This was the time period where communism fell‚ big economic and social changes were happening‚ opportunities for women increased‚ and civil rights of racial minorities group expanded. Each time period

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    Nuclear weapons in the Cold War changed how wars were fought because it was the beginning of an era where wars were no longer fought in the conventional sense. The creation of nuclear weapons meant that people lived in a constant state of fear of nuclear war. In order to ensure national security and protection states‚ primarily the United States and Russia the leading superpowers in the Cold War‚ needed to have a strong deterrence policy to prevent the other state from launching a nuclear attack

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