The Beginning of Cold War The Cold War i) Lasted 45 years‚ from 1946-91 ii) A war without actual fighting between the United States and the Soviet Union The Rise of the Superpowers: USA and USSR After WWII‚ Europe was in ruins. USA and USSR emerged as the strongest powers. During WWII‚ USA and USSR had been allies and fought on the same side. However‚ after the war‚ there was growing distrust between them. A. Britain and France i) Weakened by the Second World War ii) Lost their colonies in
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The war on drugs is one of the wars that every nation claims to be carrying out. The United States of America is considered as one of the vibrant drug trafficking regions globally. The war of drugs in the United States of America therefore rates as one of the longest wars in the nation (Lurigio‚ 2008 pg. 87). Ideally‚ it has taken approximately forty years since the kick-off of the war. Despite the fact the war may appear to be plain from the word of mouth‚ it posses unimaginable consequences on
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The power of the United States to intervene between the conflict of Texas and Mexico is another act of being a hegemon and to show its power and dominance over others. Mexico‚ an autonomous state composed of lands from West Coast after its independence from Spain in 1821‚ worked to gain a stable government and sees the United States as a threat because United States seeks to expand its land to the South. The result is an unstable and poor economic‚ social and political condition Mexico is in. Texas
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“Pearl Harbor was a catalyst for the United States entering World War II”. On December 7‚ 1941‚ Pearl Harbor‚ on the island of Oahu‚ was attacked. Japanese soldiers fired at battleships and aircrafts‚ killing over 2‚000 Americans. Franklin Roosevelt issued a meeting with Congress to discuss declaring war on Japan. On December 7‚ 1941‚ Roosevelt said‚ “A date which live in infamy”. By declaring war‚ the United States would no longer be an isolationist nation‚ changing the economy greatly. Franklin
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Why did the US lose the war in Vietnam? When the year 1973 came around‚ the most powerful economic and military force America‚ were being forced to come to terms with the fact that they had suffered defeat in their war in Vietnam. Despite the vast gulf in financial and military prowess which swung in favour of the Americans‚ 57‚000 of their troops1 had lost their lives or were missing in action2‚ in a defeat so unanimous that the American armed forces today‚ use Vietnam as their key example on how
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Spanish American war By: Elijah Fitton On April 21‚ 1898‚ the United States declared war against Spain. ... The reasons for war were many‚ but there were two immediate ones: America’s support the ongoing struggle by Cubans and Filipinos against Spanish rule‚ and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor. Spanish-American War definition. A war between Spain and the United States‚ fought in 1898. The war began as an intervention by the United States on behalf of
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United States saw that the URSS was expanding all over Europe and Asia‚ because the soviet forces toke the entire island of Sakhalin and the Kuriles islands in the war against Japan and signed with the communist new government of Poland the political Oder line as the frontier with Germany. With those changes the URSS gained Konigsberg and Lvov for Poland‚ meanwhile Poland toke the principal port of Berlin‚ Stettin‚ and the rest of Prussia‚ part of Brandenburg‚ Pomerania and Silesia. A lot of German
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861.00/2 - 2246: Telegram The Charge in the Soviet Union (Kennan) to the Secretary of State SECRET Moscow‚ February 22‚ 1946--9 p.m. [Received February 22--3: 52 p.m.] 511. Answer to Dept’s 284‚ Feb 3 [13] involves questions so intricate‚ so delicate‚ so strange to our form of thought‚ and so important to analysis of our international environment that I cannot compress answers into single brief message without yielding to what I feel would be dangerous degree of over-simplification. I hope‚ therefore
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The impact of the United States joining the war was very important and had a huge significant in many ways. World War I began in 1914‚ however‚ the United States got involve and join the war until 1917. The United States always kept a policy of neutrality when the war broke out in 1914‚ and some of the primary factors that influence the entrance of the U.S into war and the declaration of war against Germany were the sinking of the Lusitania‚ Zimmerman telegram‚ and unrestricted submarine warfare
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Drew Garrett Dr. Dea Boster Hist 1152-005 20 April 2014 Cold-War During the 1950’s America‚ post WWII‚ our Nation faced major changes under the leading presidency of Truman and Eisenhower. America fell into another time of prosperous feeling with the end of yet another victory in World War II‚ an almost arrogant view of their society in respects to the remainder of other economies. Communism became the American adversary‚ and Americans sought to purge the world of it. Because of the extreme
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