War‚ in particular‚ persists largely‚ in part‚ due to fear. During the Cold War‚ the United States operated on a fear of communism spreading called the domino theory. In the minds of US leaders at the time‚ the emergence of communism in China and the Soviet Union would lead to its further spread in surrounding countries‚ weakening western hegemony and threatening the current world order that conveniently allowed the US to comfortably rule at the top. As such‚ proxy wars sprout up all
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During WWII (1939-1945) the Soviet Union (USSR) was allied with France‚ Britain‚ and the USA. These were known as the Allies. The Allies fought against Germany and the other Axis powers. After the war‚ the victory belonged to the Allies. The USA and USSR become the two new superpowers as they had the most robust economies‚ militaries‚ international political power. However‚ the alliance between the two begins to crumbling down in 1945 as they had a big difference between their ideologies‚ decision
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During the years of the Cold War‚ the main focus to all tension throughout the world along with any combat revolved around differing ideologies in between world powers and supporting countries. The world was in a battle in between the Democratic/Capitalist states led by the United States of America and the Communists states led by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Samuel Phillips Huntington believed that the source of conflict in the world was going to transition from the battling of ideologies
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When an illness is threatening or starting to spread‚ it is the natural response to quarantine it until it either dies out or a cure is found. The United States policy of containment brought about during the cold war was an effort to stop the expansion of communism to other regions. Though communism was thought of as both something that could be lived with and without‚ America was right to think of it as a threat to the American way of life. The Soviet Union was looking to expand their way of life
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The Cold War was composed of two competing superpowers‚ the Soviet Union and the United States‚ in a war without ever direct conflict. The Cold War came to be through Soviet actions and American fear of those actions. The Soviets practiced their ideology of communism on East Germany and took over Eastern European countries as a buffer zone to protect themselves. This rather imperialist foreign policy was alarming to the United States and their allies‚ especially since imperialism was beginning to
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The Cold War was a rivalry between two international super powers with opposing views: The Capitalist United States and The Communist USSR. These two super powers often butt head with each other on many subjects such as: economy‚ policy‚ and ideologies. Although they were allies in the fight against Hitler’s Germany‚ both superpowers similarly saw the other as a threat. Both superpowers knew that a direct fight to settle the score could risk another war. Therefore they indulged in a war of attrition
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In the Cold War‚ propaganda played a major role in politics in order to ensure that moral and support for the government stayed high. Propaganda was used to influence the general public’s opinions on people‚ such as Castro‚ political preferences‚ such as communism‚ and events‚ such as the Cuban revolution‚ Bay of Pigs‚ and Cuban missile crisis. One such example of the propaganda in a newspaper article from the New York Times on January 31‚ 1961. This article was used in multiple newspapers. The article
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was driven from economic theories of Karl Marx (Gans et al.‚ 2012)‚ and Capitalism‚ which mostly comes from theories of Adam smith (Gans et al.‚ 2012). This disagreement led to biggest and most effective phenomenon of 20th century called Cold War. During this war a silent and humble but courageous and effective movement started and developed in Basque‚ Spain. The idea was simple; workers‚ owners and managers are same people. Their idea was brilliant and sustainability and development of the cooperatives
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Amongst many other countries during the Cold War‚ Hungary was a satellite nation of the Soviet Union. Hungary had been under the control of the Soviets since 1949. They lived under harsh Stalinist rule until around 1989 when the people of Hungary rose up in rebellion to demand the rights they believed they deserved. This uprising is considered to be the first rip in the "Iron Curtain‚” or the post-WWII "barrier" between the Soviet Union and the non-communist areas in the West. In November of 1944
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security. Collective security is supposed to prevent future conflicts that will happen. Collective security is used so if a nation attacks another nations everyone should help the nation being attacked to prevent a war. The Cold War has many examples of foreign policy within it. After World War II America thought that the best defense against the soviet union was containment. The containment strategy lead to a massive buildup of weapons between the superpowers and is known as the arms race. American officials
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