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    The Cold War and Africa

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    The Cold War For more than forty years‚ the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union directly thrented each other with nuclear weapons. This period of time is referred to as the cold war. In my research paper I will be describing the cold war in full details‚ the people that influence the war‚ and introducing the major affect that the war played in society. During the Cold War the containment was hard to control. Mutual suspicion had long existed between the West and the USSR(Union

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    Origins of the cold War

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    The Cold War was a time period after World War II until 1991 when there was a time between the powers in the Western bock lead by the United States of America (USA) and its allies and the Eastern Block dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The two blocks lead by the two superpowers had profound economic‚ political and ideological differences. In their race for global influence propaganda became of great importance. Propaganda contributed to the outbreak of the cold war. Ideology:

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    jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” By conforming‚ it signals conceding to the dominant power which immediately gives up one’s freedom by letting them control you. This motivated the two superpowers in the Cold War as neither country wanted to concede to the dominant power. The Cold War had no large scale direct fighting and instead was political and military tension between the Western Bloc and Eastern Bloc. The Soviet Union and United States‚ opposing forces‚ pursued the desire to gain power

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    Inevitability of the Cold War In the aftermath of the Second World War the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as leading superpowers‚ and while peoples of the world were ready for peace‚ the Americans increasingly saw its relation with the its former wartime ally become tenser. As a result‚ nothing dominated American foreign policy more in the post war years than the question of European reconstruction in order to counter any soviet ambitions. Before the Korean War in 1949 the Cold War avoided entering

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    Cold War Origins

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    The origins of the Cold War lie in the differences between the systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union. It is an interplay between ideology and pragmatic power politics‚ and the creation of tension and mistrust which had been evident since the Russian Revolution. During World War II differences were put aside‚ but the problems reappeared‚ and it was a changing post-war world. There are three major common explanations for the origins of the Cold War: traditional‚ revisionist‚ and post-revisionist

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    Origins of the Cold War

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    ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR In the middle of 20th century‚ mankind suffered one of the biggest tragedies in its history. The Second World War brought devastation all over the world with almost every country in the world participating in it. Toward its end everybody hoped that this would never happen again and that the political firmament in the following years would be more stable than any time in history. The leaders of the Great Powers met at Yalta‚ in February‚ 1945 to achieve peace. But

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    Power Cold War Worksheet Power‚ Ideology‚ and Terror in the Atomic Age Worksheet The Cold War Answer each of the following questions in a single paragraph: 1. What role did atomic weapons play in the Cold War? Summarize nuclear developments from 1945 to 1991. Capitalist and communist nations distrusted each other and wanted to further their own ideals while stopping the spread of the other. This led to the formation of NATO and other pacts to protect their respective “areas”. This

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    The Cold War Canada

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    The 1970’s Canada in the Cold War Canada was a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which was the name of the alliance they had formed. The main goal for the NATO was to prevent the spread of communism. Although Canada wasn’t dominant or recognized as having the influence the world‚ the country still had a moderate influence and recognition internationally. The Vietnam War The U.S. had interest in defending South Vietnam against a communist movement supported by North Vietnam

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    History Of The Cold War

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    The Cold War Between 1948 and 1991 was another time of fear and geopolitical tension. The tension came as a result of World War II and developed over a rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. Historians have indicated that the Cold War began when the Truman Doctrine was signed and that the war ended when the Soviet Union collapsed. The term “cold” was used because there was no actual fighting between the two nations rather‚ the war was fought with proxy

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    Cold War Essay

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    War 1 Norma Jean Smith His104 World Civilization 11 ABG1007A The Cold War of the 1900 Century Jill Walsh March 15‚ 2010 War 2 The Cold War of the 1900 Century The Cold War period lasted from the mid-1940 ’s until the late 1980 ’s. During this period international politics were shaped by this intense rivalry between these two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented. The United States and its allies represented democracy and capitalism while

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