Effect of War American Intercontinental University Abstract The following paper will look at a couple of major consequences the cold war had on the United States as a society. The paper will also go into the way the cold war affected the American population as a whole. The paper will also look at the reason the war could have been beneficial or detrimental on the United States. Cause and Effect of War The cold war took place during the mid-40’s and on into the late 80’s. The cold war got its
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The Bipolar World THE CHAPTER IN PERSPECTIVE No sooner had World War II reached its bloody finish than the world was thrust into an even more frightening conflagration. The United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies faced off in a fundamental struggle to shape the postwar world. It was a contest based on power politics, competing social and economic systems, and differing political ideologies that lasted over fifty years and touched every corner of the globe. A spiraling arms race eventually
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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
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liberal democracy would eventually triumph in the world and the liberals will win battle within the Muslim world as well. Radical ideologies are only powerful in the Muslim world because of a lack of democracy, a lack of development, frustration with American foreign policy – some combination of all those. He argues that in the recent past, with the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Iron Curtain, a consensus has emerged throughout the world that
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The Cold War era marked a major shift in public consciousness from a historically outward and directed state of being toward a contemporary way of thinking, encompassing ideals such as self-enlightenment as well as awareness of self and influencing factors on agency. This set of ideals is encapsulated and taken to the far left with existentialism, taking a step further back from one's self to identify deeper philosophical issues from the point of view of your own being as well as civilisation as
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The fight against illegal drug production and consumption, as well as the war against terrorism has plagued the world for more than a decade. In particular, the United States has faced multiple terrorist attacks and the issues of drugs continues to put a damper on society within the country. The nations of Latin America are greatly affected by the tragic effects that occur within their powerful and influential neighbor. History shows that the nation of Colombia has had relatively friendly and cooperative
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America’s Invisible Cold War Weapon Often overlooked in analyses of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War, religion acted as a powerful tool to direct U.S. leaders’ decisions and unite Americans in the war against the Soviets (Kirby, 2003; Grimshaw, 2011; Winsboro 2009; Gaddis 1997). Emerging out of studies of the cultural dimension of the Cold War, the “religious Cold War” has become a subject of focus for scholars in the past two decades. Dianne Kirby, a professor of history at the University
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being neutral inert party towards any alliance of super powers, disarmament policy and ideologies of peace to becoming one of the pioneering countries in the field of nuclear weapons developments, nuclear energy deal with the U.S and facing war and aggression from China and Pakistan, two of its neighbouring countries. The Non Aligned Movement (NAM) was created out of the desire to orient India’s foreign policy towards the group of newly decolonized states, hoping to create a larger area
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1950 brought the advent of the Korean War. China supported the Democratic People's Republic of Korea where communist rule was established in the year 1948. The United States on the other hand supported the Republic of Korea. The Soviet Union also entered the picture to form a trinity of communist nations. There were direct confrontations between the Chinese and the American militaries. This resulted in a lot of friction between the two countries. The Korean War ensured there was deep mistrust between
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three: The Cold War was a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union that began after World War II, in 1947. Although the nations never physically fought each other, they continued to exchange deadly threats for decades. This war marked a clear difference between American and Soviet traditions and their needs and interests after the war. America saw Stalin as untrustworthy as a result of refusing to hold free elections in countries occupied by the Soviet army after the war, even though
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