After World War II many more wars were started and negatively impacted many countries for a multitude of years. The Cold War began after World War II and although no actual fighting occurred the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union lasted for over 40 years. In the beginning the Cold War was focused on all of Germany. After World War II Germany was divided into 4 zones‚ each region was controlled by a different Allied power. This was done to rid Germany of Nazis and to bring
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The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy The John F. Kennedy presidency encountered various situations in Latin America‚ Southeast Asia and Europe‚ as well as‚ other regions that required astute diplomatic efforts and initiatives amid increasing Cold War tensions. Kennedy had been passionate about the issues of war and peace since when he was young. In fact‚ Kennedy’s plan of flexible response managed by Robert McNamara was intended to minimize the occurrence of war
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World War I sparked a multitude of significant short and long term political changes throughout Europe. In the immediate aftermath of the war‚ territory was reallocated‚ four empires fell‚ and the League of Nations was created. The creation of the League of Nations‚ despite its eventual failure‚ demonstrated a major shift in international politics from the desire to expand and conquer to the recognition of the importance of the balance of power. The Treaty of Versailles also divided Austria-Hungary
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After World War 1 a time known as the Interwar period occurred‚ and from 1918 to 1939 the world saw unprecedented revolution as many powerful leaders made their way into the public arena. Historic figures such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Benito Mussolini‚ Joseph Stalin‚ Ataturk‚ Mahatma Gandhi‚ and Ibn Saud all made their voices heard throughout the world. Some of these leaders had benevolent intentions‚ and others were certainly heinous to the core‚ however the visions all these
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To what extent did the domino theory exacerbate the cold war? Jordan Heiman December 19‚ 2014 Podell Word Count: 1807 Plan of Investigation This investigation will evaluate the question‚ “to what extent did the domino theory exacerbate the cold war?” To further determine the degree that the domino theory heightened the cold war‚ the following sources will be evaluated; JSTOR‚ EbscoHost‚ and Google Scholar. The investigation will revolve around a large range of time‚ the 1950’s
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Describe entertainment and music from the 80s: The 80s had a very distinct personality to its pop culture phenomena. It was in the 80s that we saw the first mass explosion of hysteria for new toys‚ with the 1983 winter shortage of Cabbage Patch Dolls. One of the biggest pop culture crazes of its times‚ the individually named and crafted Cabbage Patch Dolls join the ranks of the dolls of each decade‚ reflecting the eternal power of the doll. Trivial Pursuit‚ a response to a few decades of mass information
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start of the Cold War following the end of World War II on September 2nd‚ 1945. The uneasy alliance between the Big Three powers - the United States‚ the United Kingdom‚ and the Soviet Union - began to quickly deteriorate after the demise of Nazi Germany and the surrender of Imperial Japan. Without a common enemy‚ the ideological differences between the Western powers and the Soviet Union became more pronounced. These irreconcilable differences marked the fundamental origins of the Cold War. Brief
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The Cold War was borne out of two fundamentally different forms of governing a society: capitalism and communism. Opposing ideas have never been clearer in history then when looking at the capitalist United States and communist Russia immediately after World War II. Who is to say that free enterprise is wrong? Who is to say that all people working toward the common good is wrong? Sadly‚ strong opinion coupled with intense fear on both sides could have been disastrous for mankind. While the Cold
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How far can the decline of Soviet power in Eastern Europe be blamed on the Solidarity movement? I think that the Solidarity movement played a key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union‚ because it not only influenced the biggest country in the Eastern Block‚ (Poland which shared a long border with the USSR and previously served as a corridor for attack on the Soviet Union)‚ it also managed to attain over 10 million members and supporters nationwide. Since the Solidarity movement or Solidarity
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significance of events in Korea (1950-1953) on the development of the Cold War In July 1953‚ an armistice was signed at Panmunjom to signal a ceasefire between the Sino-Soviet backed North and the US-UN backed South Korea. Although the Korean War was not the beginning of Cold Wa‚ the events from Korea are important in assessing the development of the Cold War. Whilst it is sometimes seen as a watershed in the development of the Cold War‚ a more compelling analysis is that it was a catalyst which accelerated
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