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    Cold War Recipe Cold War Recipe A cup of communism A cup of capitalism Half cup of Iron Curtain Half cup of Truman Doctrine A piece of Berlin Wall 1/4 cup of Korean War 1/4 cup of Vietnam War 1/4 cup of Arab-Israeli conflict 1/4 cup of Soviet War in Afghanistan Two spoon of nuclear weapon 1/2 spoon of KGB 1/2 spoon of CIA A spoon of other weapons (for example: missiles‚ tanks‚ battleships) First put 1 cup of communism and 1 cup of capitalism into the pot‚ and then pour

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    The Cold War began as a struggle between two world superpowers‚ the USA and the USSR. The Cold War allowed the USA‚ to expand in many different economic and political explorations. The Cold War led to three different conflicts which were the Korean War‚ the Cuban missile crisis and the *Vietnam War*. The Cold War also leaves an affect on America today. The Cold War originally began as political‚ and economic struggle. The U.S. did not want to see communism spread which was another main factor in

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    Cold Mountain: The Civil War

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    Cold Mountain: The Civil War The Civil War was a four year armed conflict between northern and southern sections of the United States. The Civil War cost more American lives than any other war in history. There were bout 3 million people who fought in the beginning of the Civil War and about 600‚000 people’s lives were lost at the end of the war. What began for many as a romantic adventure soon became a heartbreaking bitter struggle between the two parts of a divided country. This‚ however

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    Cold War Ideology and Policies Billie Jo Wallace Axia College of University of Phoenix Professor Shaun Sullivan January 13‚ 2007 Cold War Ideology and Policies The Cold War is a term used to describe a mostly nonviolent conflict primarily between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US) beginning in 1945. The USSR’s military might and the US’s nuclear capabilities defined the Cold War. Neither country was willing to start an all out war. The USSR and the US

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    Cold War Space Policy

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    The United States has had a vastly changing national space policy during the cold war. The early cold war presidents such as Eisenhower‚ Kennedy‚ Johnson and Nixon had a very active and well-funded space policy compared to later cold war presidents. What caused each president to have a different policy and what shaped their views on space policy during the height of the cold war? What were the goals and outcomes of their policies? In the summer of 1958‚ through the singing of the National Aeronautics

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    Orthodox interpretation of the origins of the Cold War notes that expansionary tendencies of the Soviet Union as a primary influence of the outbreak of the Cold War. According to the Orthodox interpretation‚ the quintessential wisdom among American politicians and diplomats at the time was that Soviet Union after the end of the World War II‚ sought to expand its area of hegemonic control. Scholars like George F. Kennen‚ William H. McNeill‚ Herbert Feis and Arthur M. Schlesinger shared similar point

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    There were quite a few significant events that led up to the Revolutionary War. The Americans relied on the British Empire to turn there raw product into sellable goods but they became so fed up with all the taxes they had to pay and all the rules the royal government was imposing on them. The Americans were getting tired of the British pushing them around and trying to dictate their lifestyle. The Americans became frustrated and disgruntled when they imposed all their acts on them such as the

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    Honoring Cold War Heros

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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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    United States and the Soviet Union. This conflict was the Cold War‚ and it affected many regions of the world‚ including Europe‚ Asia and Latin America. One example of how the Cold War affected a region was in Europe where it was divided into two regions; communist and non-communist.(doc 1) This seemed to be a question with countries whether they’ll be run as a communist country or non-communist. Berlin was an immediate victim to the Cold War. Berlin was shared amongst 4 powers‚ the French‚ British

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