nuclear explosion‚ are we going to war with America today?" This is what it was like for many people living in the Soviet Union‚ a.k.a the USSR‚ or present day Russia‚ around 1985 during the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of tension and‚ on many occasions‚ near-war conflicts mostly between the Soviet Union and the United States. It was basically started after so-called diplomatic relations between the USA and the USSR started to dissolve after World War II. The war ended in 1991‚leading to the downfall
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American Civil War was probably the most important period of arms development in history. The Civil War was appropriately called "the last of the ancient wars and first of the modern wars”. This was because many revolutionary breakthroughs occurred in this war‚ yet the military still relied on some of its old weapons and techniques. In this report‚ I will elaborate on some of the guns and ammunition used during the civil wars. I feel that the weapons are the most important part of a war. Weapons are
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The decade preceding World War II is most notably remembered for the Great Depression‚ a world wide economic period of decline on a scale never before seen. Obviously it affected every country differently and as a result the international political system was multi-polar and divided among two groups‚ the Axis and the Allies. The destruction of World War II left only two countries economically viable enough to be considered a world power‚ the United States and the Soviet Union. This unprecedented
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Essay Question: “The USA should be blamed for the Cold War.” Do you agree with this statement? The Cold War is believed to have lasted from the end of World War II to the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991 and remains one of the most significant political events of the 20th century. In reality‚ this War was a tense political period‚ marked by open hostility‚ lack of understanding‚ and deliberate provoking between the Democratic and Communist blocs‚ the East and the West‚ and most
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The growing tension between the Soviets and the West‚ United States in particular‚ reverberated around the world after the Second World War. Although allied in their fight against Nazi Germany‚ communist Russia and capitalist America soon came to distrust each other’s goals in a post-war world. The Soviets considered the West as being enslaved by capitalism whereas the Americans believed the Soviets were enslaved by communism. This general mistrust and unwillingness to work together is cleverly depicted
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Origin of Cold War [Jaepil Lee] [0615-9127] [Feb 13th‚ 2013] [Scott Rutherford] The Cold War distinguished from hot war not including the actual warfare had been global phenomenon after World War Second. The origin of Cold War after 1945 two most powerful countries‚ United States and Soviet Union advocating capitalism and communism essentially reveal the ideological conflicts and with military blockage disclose the positional welfare in a political‚ economic and military area. The origin
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The Cold War‚ often dated from 1947 to 1991‚ was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western Bloc‚ dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies‚ and powers in the Eastern Bloc‚ dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. This began after the success of their temporary wartime alliance against Nazi Germany‚ leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound economic and political differences. A neutral faction arose with the
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The political feud between capitalism and communist regimes came to a head during hostile period of The Cold War (1947 - 1991). Ideological conflicts directly fuelled many of the key events of The Cold War‚ including the berlin blockade. The different political ideologies became the underlying motive driving the post WWII political and military hostilities with propaganda often being used to demonstrate the strong underlying corrections. America and Russia were the fronting nations in the ideological
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The orthodox view of the Cold War’s origins was challenged by antithesis known as “revisionism”. Revisionists proposed new emphases its reasoning by stressing on the importance of American pursuit of its economic survival and that the Soviet Union was not solely to blame for the Cold War. Revisionists such as William A. Williams explained the emergence of the Cold War in terms of “dollar diplomacy”. Revisionists view the U.S foreign policy as inherently linked to the needs of Capitalism. In his
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To What extent can USA and USSR be blamed for the start of the Cold War? After World War II‚ a new world order was created as USSR and USA emerged as the two superpowers. There were already existing tensions between these two before the war and the wartime alliance was more out of the need to destroy the common enemy‚ Germany‚ rather than out of mutual agreements between these two. It has been argued that the cold war was caused mostly by the USSR because of their Marxism- Leninism ideology and their
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