The Cold War Era Lizette Martinez Kaplan University SS310 Sec.25 Exploring the 1960s: An Interdisciplinary Approach Ion Motkin August 16‚ 2011 The Cold War Era The cold war era was a depression period of time for the American families. The Soviets sent the first satellite‚ sputnik‚ into space in 1957 using soviet superiority in the space as a crude threat against the American people due to lack of understanding and constant provoking between the democrats and the communist (David‚ 1994)
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Question1 Containment was the foreign policy put forth by the United States to challenge Russia during the Cold War (Kennan and Containment‚ n.d.). This Policy was based on a letter written by George Kennan called the X Article (Jones‚ 2008). The letter called for the United States to contain communism from any further expansion. Under President Truman‚ this became policy and would continue for many years and Presidents after him. Since the letter did not define the terms on how to contain communism
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Conceptions of the Cold War Lisa Harris SS310 February 12‚ 2013 Zachary Funk Conceptions of the Cold War My research began for this paper by seeking out those who remembered the Cold War. I talked to many individuals before I came across anyone who did. The first individual I began to interview did not tell me much‚ what she recalled were the misconceptions broadcasted on television about the war‚ for instance the protestors. She stated that the television made it look like there were hundreds
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America‚ Russia‚ and the Cold War The origins of the Cold War came about when United States President Harry Truman issued his Truman Doctrine. This doctrine stated that the United States would support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This would end up being the foundation of the U. S. involvement in the Cold War. The main idea of the doctrine was to support nations in the resistance of communism. Truman felt that if one nation
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turned from allies to enemies. When the war ended the Soviet Union was the greatest communist power and the US was the greatest capitalist power. During this time anti-communism greatly increased in the US‚ which was shown through events such as the rise of McCarthyism and trials such as the Rosenbergs. Each of these two powers wanted to expand their power by getting other countries to develop their system of government and economy; that led to the Cold War. Due to the large number of colonies in
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United States entered into World War I. Some of these included unlimited Submarine warfare‚ the Sussex Pledge being broken‚ and the Zimmerman Telegram. Although the sinking of the Lusitania (May 1915) was before the US entered into World War 1‚ it was one of the events that lead up to the US involvement. I thought it was interesting that there were newspaper advertisements paid for by the German Embassy that said that any ship traveling to into the European War Zone did so at their own risk and
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Reflection of the Cold War The Cold War‚ from 1945 to 1991‚ is one of the most important periods of time that has greatly influenced and shaped the modern world. It was not just a battle between two super powers‚ the USA and the Soviet Union‚ but also a clash of two really popular ideologies during that time. There was the American claim of fighting for freedom and democracy and the Soviet claims of fighting for the interests of the workers and the common people. Now in theory‚ these ideologies
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The Cold War developed slowly between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ as both nations were fighting for control of the postwar world. This cold war was a war of words with lots of tension. These two nations were on the same side during the war but after the war they began to grow apart and not trust each other. The United States and the Soviet Union had different beliefs as to where the world should go in terms of government and economics. This caused big problems for the two nations. These
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When the Cold War began in 1947‚ the United States and the Soviet Union turned from peaceful allies to enemies at the brink of war simply because each wanted to be the more dominant country. Unlike most wars‚ it was not fought on a physical battlefield‚ but instead was fought through competition with one another. This competition could be seen throughout many different points of the Cold War from the space race to athletics to the overall political ideologies of both countries. The goal of this paper
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‘The origins of the Cold War were less about ideologies and more about concerns over insecurity.’ Discuss. The origins of the cold war were entrenched in both American and Soviet concern over insecurity‚ and the outbreak of cold war was a process that began towards the end of the Second World War. However‚ both nations emerged as superpowers after the Second World War‚ and both shed their policies of isolationism-with the power to influence the global sphere‚ there is little doubt that there would
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