...The Division of Europe The Origins of the Cold War The Soviet Union and the United States began to quarrel as soon as the threat of Germany disappeared and hostility between the Eastern and Western superpowers was a logical outgrowth of military developments, wartime agreements, and long-standing differences The Americans and British had made military victory their highest priority and avoided discussion of Stalin’s war aims and shape of the eventual peace settlement The United States and Britain did not try to take advantage of the Soviet Union’s position in 1942, because they feared that bargaining would encourage Stalin to consider making separate peace with Hitler (focused on unconditional surrender) The conference that Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill held in the Iranian capital of Teheran in November 1943 proved of crucial importance in...
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...Under the Soviet Union, the Communist Party rose after World War 1 when Russia had to withdraw from the war due to internal struggles. Each ruler had a different idea of what a communist country should look like but Stalin’s tactics were the most brutal and oppressive. His personal distrust of the people around him led to purges and while he did manage to accelerate the USSR’s economic standpoint, it came at a high cost leading to widespread starvation. While essentially the communists planned to destroy the bourgeoisie to create a classless society, and thus equality, the implementation of such a plan was poor and gave the opportunity for a mere secretary of the party to rise to totalitarian rule. While World War I was coming to an...
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...The end of World War II saw the rise of tensions and hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union, an era of time known as “The Cold War.” It resulted from the expansion of Soviet influence, specifically communism, into Eastern Europe, which worried the democracies of the west that had established political primacy in Western Europe. America and the Soviet Union promoted opposing economic and political ideologies and competed for international influence. The American response to Soviet actions was justified by condoning it as a necessary policy, believing it to be a counterattack, and by saying that the United States has to set an example to lead other nations of the free Western world. President Harry S. Truman discussed the...
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...During World War II, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. The relationship between the nations was tense due to the mistrust the U.S. and Great Britain had for the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin. They had been wary of Soviet communism and concerned about Stalin’s tyrannical, blood-thirsty rule of his own country. The Soviets resented the Americans’ refusal to treat the USSR as a part of the international community and they took their delayed entry into World War II personally because of the resulting deaths of tens of millions of Russians. After WWII, Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe fed many Americans’ fears of a Russian plan for world domination. The USSR resented American...
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...After the WWII nobody was expecting it but another war was coming up! The problem was that the WWII went by pretty agressively and the people runned out of sources,water,and one of the most important,money. On that time people was struggling with money! And the worst thing that could happened on that time was another war. This war was called The Cold War,in this war the U.S clashed with the Soviet Union. This war became too a World Conflict,not just America was in this war. Besides the war after the WWII,The Cold War I’m going to talk about the After Depression,economically America went into a big depression with no money and also it went into a big depression with the society too.Also how I said before and what the despression contains...
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...Canada And The Cold War By Bryce Churchill Canada surprisingly had a lot more of a impact on the Cold War than you would expect. Whenever most people think about the Cold War, it usually comes down to two different things. The first one being a non-direct fight between the U.S.S.R and the U.S.A. The second being a war fought way up north. Canada as a country was actually a middle power during the events of the Cold War which means that Canada was not quite as large or powerful as the U.S.A during the Cold War but Canada still had some influence on a international level. This is most apparent in their involvement in the Korean War, involvement in peacekeeping operations around the world, and Lester B. Pearson actions that stopped a nuclear war around the world (the Suez...
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...John F. Kennedy played a significant role in more crises than one, specifically during the Cold War. A large portion of the Cold War crises consisted between the United States and the Soviet Union, which led to a worldwide fear of a nuclear war. John F. Kennedy entered his presidency during the midst of these crises, and decided that he needed to take the responsibility upon himself to handle the situations, resolve them, and preferably, avoid another high cost war, as the United States had just ended the second World War after Japan’s surrender. Throughout this essay, John F. Kennedy’s role during the Berlin Crisis is detailed. But, before the role of the President can be discussed, the reader must first understand the Berlin Crisis, and the...
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...No other country prospered more than Japan during the cold war. While the U.S. and Soviet Union try to out compete with each other, Japan was able to focus on rebuilding their economy after World War 2. Japan was a supported ally to the U.S. and contribute money and goods during the cold war. After the cold war however, Japan was slow to establish themselves as a formable super power without the U.S. in the pacific. The dispute over the Northern Territories (four small islands) has been slow down to a crawl and the threat of nuclear weapon by North Korea. Talks with China and South Korea are always on edge especially about Japan’s responsibility in compensation for war atrocities during World War 2 where the Korean and Chinese women who were forced to provide sex to Japanese troops. Japan learn some hard lessons from the Gulf War. First, the type of armed conflict can draw a nation to war. Second, as the United Nations plays the role as peacekeeper, Japan must have a prominent role in that body. Lastly, the soldier is more respect than the banker. Japan emerged from the Gulf War with a tarnished reputation despite their financial...
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...1960s Assignment: In this assignment, you will do brief interviews with three people, asking them about their conceptions of the Cold War. Your interviewees can be anyone of your choosing: family members, friends, and so on. Below are some suggested questions that you may want to ask: What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War? Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that you remember? Who were the parties involved in the Cold War? Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War? Take notes on what each of your respondents say. You will need these notes to refer to later when you do the formal write-up of the assignment. After you have completed the assignment, write up your findings in a brief essay, which addresses the following: Using quotes from your interviews, describe how each of your three respondents understand the Cold War. Explain to what extent their definition/understanding of the Cold War differs from the definition above (see the bold typeface in the Overview section above). If your respondents’ understanding of the Cold War is different from the way the Cold War is defined in this course, explain why that might be the case. (Also, if their definition of the Cold War is very similar, explain this as well!) Your essay should be 2-3 pages in length (500–700 words) Double spaced #12 font –Times New Roman 1” margins on all sides Separate cover page...
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...the Cold War today. For example, what do everyday people today think of when they hear the term “Cold War”? This is what you are going to find out! In this assignment, you will do brief interviews with three people, asking them about their conceptions of the Cold War. Your interviewees can be anyone of your choosing: family members, friends, and so on. Below are some suggested questions that you may want to ask: 1. What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War? 2. Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that you remember? 3. Who were the parties involved in the Cold War? 4. Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War? Take notes on what each of your respondents say. You will need these notes to refer to later when you do the formal write-up of the assignment. After you have completed the assignment, write up your findings in a brief essay, which addresses the following: 1. Using quotes from your interviews, describe how each of your three respondents understand the Cold War. 2. Explain to what extent their definition/understanding of the Cold War differs from the definition above (see the bold typeface in the Overview section above). 3. If your respondents’ understanding of the Cold War is different from the way the Cold War is defined in this course, explain why that might be the case. (Also, if their definition of the Cold War is very...
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...Monday 10:00 am ( I would prefer this by tonight 10pm) Discussion question # 1: not an Essay - a couple paragraphs discussing the following. The Cold War ran from the end of World War II in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. That is a lot of history, and a great many events occurred in the world during those 44 years. One of them, but only one of them, is the proxy war that we call the Vietnam War. There was always a danger that a rather low-level proxy war could escalate and even rise to the level of nuclear confrontation and war. The dangers were perceived as great – that the Cold War could get hot and out of control. To start, what other events of the Cold War years fit this idea of “proxy war?” What kind of steps did world leaders take to keep Cold War proxy wars from heating up? What were such leaders thinking? Due on Monday 10:00am ( I would prefer this by tonight 10pm) Discussion question #2: not an Essay - a couple paragraphs disccing the following. Not long before the Vietnam War is considered to have started – around the time period we focus on this class week, 1963 and 1964 – Dag Hammarskjøld of Sweden was serving as Secretary General of the United Nations. He is quoted to have said, “Peacekeeping is not a soldier’s job, but only a soldier can do it.” This quote is often the driving logic behind what came to be known as mlitary operations other than war. With the years prior to this week’s discussions, American forces in southern...
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...The Cold War was a political and military tension in result of World War II between the two superpowers of the United States and Russia. During this time, a famous American writer, reporter, and political commentator, by the name of Walter Lippmann, was one of the first to introduce the issues and events of the Cold War. One of his famous essays toward the Cold War issues was the Critique of Containment which was written in 1947. It focused more on foreign policy and protection of the United States. The audience that the essay was supposed to be portrayed to was the American government or specifically to the department of defense. To enforce the security of the nation, Lippmann gave his ideas to shift geographical and political pressures by...
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...destruction and deterioration on human health. |emitted in a nuclear explosion and what effect do they have on human | |Not a thesis statement but a statement of fact. |beings? | |Try: Why is it best for nuclear attack victims to be right at Ground |http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/ocr_gateway_pre_2011| |Zero? |/living_future/4_nuclear_radiation1.shtml | |Working Thesis Statement: Countries may use the nuclear weapons in |Oral Presentation Thesis Statement (must be based on PART of the | |future because of the possibility of religious war and the other |research project): The time between 1946 and 2012, no atomic bomb had| |reasons. |been used even as an overt thread threat in any warpolitical crisis, | |I will argue that there is a strong possibility that nuclear weapons |the reasons … (I will find by researching.) | |will be used in the near future. | | |Will the Bomb Be Used in the Future? | | |Keep it...
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...Yolanda Williams The Cold War American Intercontinental University Abstract This essay is on the cold war and the major events that affected it. It will be analyzing 2-3 major consequences the conflict had on the United States. It will also explain how the war affected American sensibilities, including the way Americans viewed the war and themselves. The essay will also answer: if the war changed America’s role in the world? And was the outcome of the war beneficial or detrimental to the United States or was it a combination of both. The Cold War: Containment By the time World War II ended, a large majority of the American officials came to a conclusion that the best defense against the soviet threat was a strategy called “containment”. George Kennan explained the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote was “A political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent agreement between parties that disagree”, as a result the only chance America could make was the long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. This way of thinking would shape American foreign policy for the next four decades. The Cold War: The Atomic Age In 1950, a National Security Council report known as NSC-68 had copied Truman’s suggestion that the country use military force to “contain” expansionism where ever it seemed to be occurring. The report called a four-fold increase in defense spending. American officials...
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...Change: Explaining the Women’s Movement was a great chapter because it explained and analyzed the change and causes of the women’s movement. Elaine Tyler May’s essay, Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism and Women’s Liberation and Sixties Radicalism by Alice Echols both gave important but different opinions and ideas about the women’s movement. Also, the primary sources reflect a number of economic, cultural, political, and demographic influences on the women’s movement. This chapter really explains how the Cold War ideologies, other protests and the free speech movements occurring during this time helped spark the rise or the women’s right’s movements. In Cold War Ideology and the Rise of Feminism by Elaine Tyler May, May examines the impact of political changes on American families, specifically the relationship of a Cold War ideology and the ideal of domesticity in the 1960s. May believed that with security as the common thread, the Cold War ideology and the domestic revival reinforced each other. Personal adaption, rather than political resistance, characterized the era. However, postwar domesticity never fully delivered on its promises because the baby-boom children who grew up in suburban homes abandoned the containment ethos when they grew up. They challenged both the imperatives of the cold war and the domestic ideology that came with it. The first to criticize the status quo were postwar parents themselves. In 1963, Betty Friedan published her exposé...
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