of the Cold War‚ the 1950s and 1960s were often a time of great fear‚ a fear of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union upon the USA. JFK notes that families can be saved if the seek refuge in a shelter in the event of a nuclear attack‚ and in fact‚ that is what most families began to do. During the 50s and 60s many middle class families built bomb shelters in order to protect themselves and their family in the event of an attack. The effect these shelters had upon America at the time was that once
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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 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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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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Event that led to the Cold War There were many events that took place after World War 2 that set in motion the Cold War and continued creating tension. Many of these events involved many countries and/ or their support either financially or with military personal. The main focus of the Yalta conference was to plan the post war world. In other words‚ Roosevelt‚ Churchill‚ and Stalin met and planned what they would like to happen after the war was over. Germany invaded Poland‚ their government
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This was a pivotal time in the Cold War between democracies and communist governments‚ particularly the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War caused the two major powers to clash‚ leaving people in fear of a nuclear war. U.S. officials had the near impossible task of predicting the endeavors of Nikita Khrushchev‚ the leader of Russia (Targeted News Service 1). The Berlin Crisis was a conflict of interests that caused the separation of Germany. As one of many conflicts of the Cold War
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The Cold War era in the United States was a time of fear and anxiety. Tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States had risen to such a level that every interaction between the two nations presented a potential for danger. The film‚ Dr. Strangelove‚ directed by Stanley Kubrick in the early 1960s‚ portrays a scenario that is frighteningly plausible to the American people by playing off of their sense of foreboding and apprehension in order to make a point about powerlessness of the average
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The Cold War and U.S Diplomacy politic 300 07/31/2011 The Cold War Diplomacy When most people think of President Kennedy’s Diplomacy efforts‚ they will often refer to situations that were resolved using the doctrine of flexible response. This is when the military and White House planners implemented a policy that offered them a range of options to choose from: in dealing with a host of threats. These included: the increased use of conventional forces to small and large nuclear weapons
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