THE COLD WAR WAS UNAVOIDABLE DO YOU AGREE? 43 years had passed by ‚ but there was no conflict amongst the two superpowers of the United States and the USSR ‚ their relation well before was hostile ‚ i.e . nothing was as such in a situation to be declared or called a cold war‚ in fact situations were pretty good ‚ but as it is said good things always have an end and cannot last forever ‚time passed by ‚ things changed and then began a phase of clashes
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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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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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The cold war was in fact the most particular war in the history of the world‚ mainly because this war didn’t have a direct conflict with the two enemy states. We learned the causes of the Cold War‚ the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan‚ how nationalism developed in the Middle East‚ how the Holocaust influenced the world‚ the reasons for the fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment and work of the United Nations along with the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact
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The Cold War – Conflict of 1945 – 1960 The cold war was the conflict that happened during the time period of 1945 through 1960 between the democratic nations led by the United States and the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union. The cold war was fought in the most part by using propaganda‚ the economy‚ haggling with the occasional military clash. The politics of the cold war is mostly theory but can be categorized as a struggle to expand‚ contain
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The orthodox view of the Cold War’s origins was challenged by antithesis known as “revisionism”. Revisionists proposed new emphases its reasoning by stressing on the importance of American pursuit of its economic survival and that the Soviet Union was not solely to blame for the Cold War. Revisionists such as William A. Williams explained the emergence of the Cold War in terms of “dollar diplomacy”. Revisionists view the U.S foreign policy as inherently linked to the needs of Capitalism. In his
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5 Causes of the Cold War Harry Truman once said “If we do not abolish war on this earth‚ then surely one day war will abolish us from the earth.” There will always be conflict in the world whether it’s between two people or two countries‚ and all conflicts have to lead somewhere There were many conflicts between many different countries and states. Many of the conflicts lead to war between countries and states‚ and many of those conflicts lead to the Cold War‚ which brings me to a question
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The Cold War was a shocking and controversial event‚ which is still being discussed today. It is necessary to search the many reasons why it started and how. While the ’why’ or ‘what happened’ is still being argued out over time the ’what’ is very clear. One of the main reasons of the Cold War was that there were huge differences in the way that the East and West were led and as many know disagreements usually lead to conflict. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 is believed to be the start of the Cold
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The Cold War and U.S. Diplomacy The Cold War was the dominant conflict of the Twentieth Century. More than any other event‚ it defined the roles that virtually all nations played for almost 50 years. It was a truly World- Wide War‚ a content between two rival superpowers between the U.S. and the Soviet Union which for many years held the entire planet hostage to the threat of nuclear annihilation. By the time it was over‚ its players had spent the staggering sum of $15 Trillion (Windle‚ 2011).
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The Cold War was not a typical war. Although it was a war‚ it didn’t include fighting. This war lasted for a tremendous period of forty-two years. It was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. This war consists of many lows and highs throughout the length of forty-two years. It took place immediately after World War II when Europe had fallen into pieces. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were allies before the Cold War. Their fallout started when they attempted to help
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