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    Cold War and Communism HIS/135 June 23‚ 2012 The Library of Congress lists Duck and Cover as one of the most significant films of all time. Produced by Archer Films‚ the 9-minute movie was designed to teach children what to do in case of a nuclear attack. View the film at www.archive.org/details/DuckandC1951. Write a 300- to 350-word paper in which you consider what it would have been like to live under the threat of nuclear war. Compare and contrast it to living under the threat of terrorism

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    a direct result of the Cold War era. The Intelligence Community grew from the 1980’s‚ to more than 100‚000 federal employees working throughout 25 organizations specializing in numerous different aspects of collecting and analyzing data. After the Cold War ended the number of agencies and employees were reduced due to reduction in budgets and the military intelligence suffered the deepest cuts. However‚ the vast intelligence capacity had grown so large during the Cold War era that our enormous capacity

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    this before he held presidential office‚ led the country through the closest brush with nuclear war‚ all while having highest approval rating in history. In the 1960s many knew that the United States was headed down a path of likely destruction. After sighing relief of World War Two being over‚ the U.S quickly found themselves once again engaged in a friction filled war that spanned oceans. The Cold War‚ which began in 1947‚ would last decades and tested political

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    Indeed‚ Truman was the initiator of the “containment” policy‚ applied during the entire Cold War. His main actions were the German airlift‚ Korean War‚ the creation of the NATO and the creation of NSC-68 (which recommended increasing the military budget three-fold). Then‚ Eisenhower greatly expanded this policy. More than containment‚ Eisenhower’s Secretary of State John

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    am going to use how World War I effect the World War II and how World War II lead to Cold War in nation such as Korean‚ Vietnam‚ U.S.S.R and U.S.A and also how we almost come to World War III. I agree with this Historical Context because it means that Events occurs in community that led to major events where people get killed‚ for example Holocaust in Germany and eventually all over Europe. China was also affect by everything that Europe did to them and also Korean War‚ we are still fight but we

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    Communist. These trust issues are what led to many incidents and disagreements. These issues are what led to the Cold War. During the early stages of the Cold War‚ fear and tensions were increased because of the Red Scare‚ McCarthyism‚ and the Rosenberg Trial. The Red Scare was the cause / creation of fear‚ of a potential rise of Communism. This was the main cause of the Cold War. The Red Scare was based on the fact that Communism was spreading rapidly. People were scared that it was to reach

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    Responsible for the Start of the Cold War? Although differences between communism and capitalism - two opposing systems - existed before the start of World War II‚ relations between the United States and USSR deteriorated rapidly after the war. The US was so opposed to communism that a policy of containment was developed to prevent communism spreading. In addition‚ open hostility‚ lack of understanding‚ and deliberate provoking further separated the two countries. Though the Cold War was a result of many factors

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    ideologies of whose agendas were defeating each other‚ a blame game was being played‚ Communists blamed capitalists for the war and vice versa. With the constant boasting and bickering between the two ideologies. While Stalin and Roosevelt stayed civil‚ Churchill and Stalin often teased each other just as Churchill claimed the prosperity of Russia’s army in the Russian Archangel in World War One stating ‘That he deserved a medal for teaching the Soviet Army how to fight so well through the intervention of

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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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    After World War II‚ came the Cold War. From 1945 to 1960‚ the role of communism vastly influenced the United States and left the country infused with fear. This fear significantly impacted the country as a whole‚ as well as the individual citizens. The Cold War was unlike most previous wars‚ for it was fought through confrontation and verbal threats rather than the use of military forces. However‚ it still widely impacted America. Thus‚ it is evident that although there was a rise of tension between

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