John Lewis Gaddis is a history professor at Yale University‚ lecturing an undergraduate class every Monday and Wednesday on the Cold War. He wrote The Cold War: A New History based on questions some of his prior students had on the Cold War‚ as well as making a shorter‚ more understanding book for students to read. Gaddis provides a fantastic overview of the Cold War but could have organized the information a lot better. For instance‚ if he put it in chronological order rather than jumping back
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The Cold War was an ideological war when there was a great political and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two powers were on the opposite ends of the economic and political spectrum. The United States is the capitalist state‚ while the Soviet Union was Russia. Though there was no fighting between the two states‚ there was always the threat that could have triggered a full-blown world war. The Cold War lasted about 45 years and it changed the global political and
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instant when dropped. During the Cold War many countries built more nuclear weapons. Communism and the creation of nuclear weapons were two major problems during the Cold War. The Soviet Union and The United States were allies during WW2 but soon turned against each other after the resolution of the war in 1945. The Cold War then lasted approximately 45 years‚ when becoming obvious in 1947 and then ending in about 1991. The first obvious movement in the Cold War was when President Truman announced
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The Cold War is the name that is given to the relationship between the USSR and the USA after World War II. It was essentially an ideological struggle between the USSR and the USA. Both the sides were trying to impose their political model as the dominant global one. For over 40 years (1945-1989) the USSR was in constant conflict with the USA‚ but it was a conflict that never ended up as open warfare. It stayed as a “Cold War” as both sides were trying to destroy each other through economic and political
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The Cold War was by chance the most stressful part of the World’s history than anything else because it stretched across the entire globe and affected every country in one way or another. There are several reasons that the Cold War began and several different points that can be described as the beginning of the Cold War. By far the most influential part of the Cold War was the distrust that Joseph Stalin had between Winston Churchill and Harry Truman. The hostile relationship between the countries
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to develop a coherent and effective foreign and security policy in the Cold War Period. .Recent day we have faced many international‚ political and social problems‚ mainly we have to focus on the end of the cold war because this era had kind of changing deeply ‚There are much-discussed and consensus in the field of international relations. Today it have been agreed at the beginning of the issues that arise post-cold war period‚ the new structure of the international system. According to the
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The Cold War era was guided by the policy of “containment”. The word was mainly used only in its foreign policy version‚ first articulated by George F. Kennan in 1947. Through actions of the United States‚ the power of the Soviet Union would not endanger national security if it could be contained within a clearly defined sphere of influence. (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) However‚ this term also describes the United States government’s response to other postwar domestic developments. Although many
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terrorism. After September 11‚ 2001‚ America entered a period characterized by the real possibility of everyday violence on its own soil. By the time America got itself involved in two overseas wars to fight this new War on Terror‚ many Americans began to wonder whether the the U.S.’ victory in the Cold War was really a failure. There are three types of terrorism: State-sanctioned terrorism‚ terror networks‚ and domestic terrorism. State-sanctioned terrorism attacks are usually an attempt to gain
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The Cold War Allison Cribb HIS 223 Dr. Lamm April 06‚ 2017 Once allies with the Soviet Union (Russia)‚ the United States began to be afraid and have problems come up towards Stalin and his views on Communism; therefore bringing forward the Red Scare‚ which lead everyone to be skeptical about Communism‚ what it meant towards the United States‚ and what the effects would be. So… Was the Cold War even necessary? Was it necessary to fight over beliefs that weren’t yours? Was it worth it?
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After world war two‚ the alliance between the USSR and the West was conflicted. Competition between the Soviet Union and the United States over ideologies‚ through other countries‚ without direct armed conflict arose. Both groups began to doubt each other; the United States did not trust communists and the USSR did not trust capitalists. The blame to this event can probably be debated‚ but from research‚ the Soviets hold most of the blame. There were many different causes of the Cold War. One of them
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