The Cold War dominated the second half of the twentieth century and resulted in the collapse of communism. This war occurred due to a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1940 and 1980‚ was called Cold War because the war between the two countries was triggered by fears of a nuclear scale. The main cause that led to this war occurred because the Soviet Union wanted to spread its communist ideology to everyone‚ which alarmed the Americans‚ who hated the ideology
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Russian Studies On October 4‚ 1957‚ when the Soviet Union Launched the first artificial satellite‚ Sputnik I‚ people all over the world would see a new age of technology. The launch of Sputnik added a lot more tension to the cold war. While the Sputnik launch was a single event‚ it marked the start of the space age and the U.S‚ U.S.S.R space race. The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement‚ Sputnik caught the world’s attention and put the American public
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The Cold War was one of the most significant events of European history because it caused a split in Europe that divided the continent into Western Europe‚ the capitalists‚ and Eastern Europe‚ the communist Soviets. During the Cold War‚ many different European leaders took different approaches on holding a country down and protecting it from the Soviets‚ or joining the Soviets. In the novel‚ The Prince‚ by Niccolò Machiavelli‚ advice is given to a prince for governing a principality‚ or a nation
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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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Some of the effects of the Cold War on both United States Foreign Policy and Domestic Affairs can be seen in various facets during the period of 1945-1989. The democratic stance of the United States (US) versus the communist viewpoint of the Soviet Union placed the two countries at odds. The Cold War became a true battle for the US in the sense that the political leaders wanted to stop the spread of Russian communism. Economic sanctions were put on Russia during this time period‚ and the US paid
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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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Assignment: Cold War and Communism David Moore HIS/130 October 23‚ 2012 Kurt Scheffler Assignment: Cold War and Communism I have served in the Armed Forces overseas and I have experienced what it is like to be under constant threat of some form of attack. Either from gun fire or random explosions it is definitely no picnic. I can only imagine the fear that the people of the day felt. The not knowing if there is going to be an Atomic Bomb drop on your city. Even with warning the chance of
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Cold War and Communism HIS/135 There are situations in life that can arise at any moment‚ without our control. Nuclear war and terrorism are two of these situations. There are things we can do to prepare for these situations‚ but are we ever really prepared? To live under the threat of nuclear war must have been terrible. To know that at any moment a something very catastrophic could happen to us and our family‚ and there are only a number of things we can do to protect ourselves‚ is a
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The Cold War in 1980s – The Prone Seigneur Between the Two Superpowers Since Cold War began at the end of World War in the late 1940s‚ the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union‚ were racing their power to get their dominance over another. Each side feared the other’s superior weapons‚ such as the United States had nuclear weapon and the USSR had their mighty Red Army. The Cold War spread through decades and seemed to be indefinite. Two superpowers with the race of weapon not only
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August of 1945‚ World War II finally came to an end. After six years of fighting‚ most of the world was left in ruins‚ debt‚ and overall devastation. As the world fell apart‚ so did the relationships forged during the war. The differing ideas of how the world postwar should be between the United States and the Soviet Union caused major tension and mistrust. “The Cold War first emerged over clashing Soviet and American interest in Eastern Europe” (Roark‚ pg 713) The Cold War was fought from 1947 to
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