Many results of the Cold War came that the American people feared in the aftermath of the Second World War according to Eisenhower in a press conference in 1954. The American public feared the Soviets for many reasons. On one hand the Soviets had nuclear technology and on the other their communist government frightened the American people as stated by John Foster Dulles. Because at this time China was becoming Communist as well The fear of the American public increased‚ however President Eisenhower
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During the cold war years there was too much hysteria. Not only in the United States but the whole world had its fears. In our case the United States fears were the spread of communism‚ nuclear technology and the US economy (A).The administration of President Dwight Eisenhower address this fears in a successful way his major concern was the safety of the people. One of the major fears that I believe the people had was the spread of communism at home. On 1954 Eisenhower said that the fear “unwise
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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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Soviet Union had become locked in a Cold War. The war was a dreadful time for both sides‚ keeping all citizens on edge. The war didn’t only affect the two superpowers prepared to fight though; it also affected the rest of the world. The Cold War had a large impact on developing countries like India‚ Cuba and Egypt. Depending on whom each country allied with‚ it either prevented or helped each country’s reform‚ development and independence. Because of the war‚ the US and the USSR needed the support
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Let’s go back to the Cold War‚ when tensions between NATO and the USSR where incredibly strong and the world was threatened by a nuclear-bomb war. During this period of time‚ the United States was part of a group of western allies called the NATO‚ which was supposedly interested only in winning the war against communism. To win the war both the NATO and the USSR established military bases near both Russia and The United States. Even thought NATOS’s interest was only winning the war‚ the United States’
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the Second World War was coming to a close there emerged a new and altogether different type of war. The Cold War‚ as it is known‚ was a war where the two superpowers of the time the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) fought each other in many different battlefronts but never involving actual armed conflict with each other. This war lasted for about half a century and in this essay I shall relate the origins and the early manifestations of this war. The most significant
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2013 AP History Period 1 DBQ Essay The Cold War began over a period of several years following World War II as a result of increasing political and ideological tensions between the USSR and the USA; the weapons used were political and technological‚ in that many different types of strategies were utilized. Speeches given by world leaders provide evidence of the escalation of tensions between the two countries. The arms race played a major part in the Cold War‚ but other factors contributed
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Cold War Essay What do you think the Cold War is/was? Was it a war between communism and democracy? Well the Cold War was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ the Soviet Union wanted to spread communism while the United States wanted to spread democracy. The Cold War was called Cold because there was not direct fighting between the two countries the Soviet Union and the United States. The two countries only fought proxy wars against each other‚ the definition for a proxy war
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The Cold War was a time of political and military tension between United States and the Soviet Union. The cold war wasn’t any normal war‚ there was no mass killings‚ no tanks or fighter jets‚ there wasn’t even any ground units. What there was though was a lot of nuclear weapons and money being spent on propaganda such as; newspapers‚ magazines and radio. They were spending money as if an actual war was going on. And even though there wasn’t any real physical war going on there were two great superpowers
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Cold War DBQ Between 1941 and 1949‚ the Soviet Union and the United States‚ capitalists and communists had a major disagreement about political affairs. From the Red Scare‚ to the Bolsheviks Revolution‚ communism fright has spread around the US. The United States wanted to spread capitalism and decrease communism‚ while the Soviet Union wanted the opposite. Both sides used several methods and/or tactics to stop the spread of the opposite political view. These methods used by the United States and
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