While the texts in this elective cover a wide diversity of form‚ they all engage with the personal and political concerns of the Cold War era and the associated social‚ philosophical‚ and moral issues As CS Lewis states “Literature adds to reality‚ it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect‚ it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” Literary representations are to be valued as they arise from
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Akram Abukmeil June 2‚ 2013 Mr. Glavanis Straight after WW2‚ another war has evolved. This was called the Cold War. Why called the cold war? This was not violent. There was no “heat”. The fight was mostly words back and forth. This war started in 1945 and finished in 1989. This war was between U.S.A and the Soviet Union (Russia). This war started because they had different political ideologies. This war took place everywhere it also took place out of space‚ when they wanted to see who would
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In 1945‚ the two superpowers--the United States and the USSR--became enemies because their beliefs and objectives were completely at odds‚ this was known as the Cold War. An aspect of the Cold War was the race for nuclear superiority. As tension grew between the USSR and America‚ Americans were engulfed in great anxiety and fear towards the atomic bomb. During the atomic era and since then‚ the atomic bomb had predominantly been portrayed as the cause of great fear and anxiety. As fears intensed
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Expansionism ideology‚ arguably catalysed the development of the Cold War between 1945 and 1948 - without both of these contributing factors there would have been no war. However‚ tension and backhanded rivalry on the economic front severely threatened US/ Soviet relations‚ fronting a prominence of attack by the USA and provoking the Soviets into retaliation. One major factor that could easily be blamed for starting the Cold War is the USA’s own economic interests. Truman desperately needed large
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The Cold War was an almost 50-year long stretch of tense relations between the United States and the Communist-ruled Soviet Union. The Cold War started very quickly after World War II and finished with the 1991 destroying of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The dread of Communism invasion in the U.S. government‚ media outlet and different associations influenced American legislative issues‚ culture‚ and even day by day life‚ especially in the early
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Strategy about cold war for the next two decades. U.S. foreign policy concerns‚ most notably the Soviet explosion of an atomic device in September 1949 and China’s fall to communism the following October‚ President Truman requested a complete review and re-evaluation of America’s Cold War diplomacy strategy Believe me‚ President Truman took four months to compile and was approved in April 1950. After approved document United States changed the World and built massive power. Because of World War two had
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Containment was a policy used by the Americans used stop the spread of Communism and communist expansion through military‚ political and economic means. Specifically in the Cold War era‚ the U.S. implemented this policy through the Truman Doctrine and the founding of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Another factor of the containment policy was the Soviet Union’s rejection of the Marhsall plan. Containment started in 1949 with the Truman Doctrine. The development of the Truman Doctrine
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The Cold War happened during the world War 2‚ the UNited States and the Soviet union fought as allies against the Axis powers. The Cold War supposedly never heated up into actual armed conflict. So it was never really a war. There were wars involved like Korea and Afghanistan or United States and the USSR. That relationship was real tense. This war for geopolitical reasons. The cold war is !ore like a time period from 1945 to 1990. After WW2‚ the United States and USSR were the only two nation
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Honoring Cold War Heroes I have chosen to write about President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. As a 15 year old living now in 2013‚ the heroes of the Cold War were unfamiliar to me so I was just not going to really do this assignment‚ but then my grandfather came for a weekend visit. I happened to have my World History textbook open on the dining room table and my grandpa pulled it over to him and began to speak about growing up and living most of his life during the cold war. I asked
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The Cold War‚ which took place from 1949 to 1991 was a very tense time between Soviet Russia and the United States of America (Trueman‚ What was the Cold War). Both countries were constantly at odds and willing to attack each other with nuclear weapons due to their differences in political‚ economic and social beliefs.While Soviet Russia believed that communism was the best social‚ political and economic ideology for the world to follow the United States believed capitalism was the best ideology
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