historical turning points in the period under discussion. 2. There are two major historical turning points in the period under discussion. The first major turning point was the Fall of Communism and the end to the cold war. The fall of communism and the end of the Cold War led to a reduction of nuclear weapons by both the United States and the former Soviet Union, although many weapons still exist (Shultz, 2012). The Second major turning point in this era was the large growth in the United
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What was the “Cold War?” The subject researched for this paper is describing the Cold War or the Red Scare; others call it the Red Menace. The Red Scare was the most important political and diplomatic issue of the last half of the 20th Century. Cold War enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold war got its name because both sides were terrified of a real war directly between the two major nuclear missile countries in the world. In a war nuclear weapons may destroy
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Essay – Remembering a War We Want to Forget Many US. Soldiers who took part in the Vietnam War experienced that the conflict divided The United States of America. There were two groups, those who went to Vietnam and those who didn’t. It all depended on social class, many men who travelled to Vietnam to fight were the majority of working-class America. Their average age was less than twenty and most of them didn’t even graduate. These young men were not soldiers, but ordinary people. Because they
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War: An Anatomy of Madness James V. Lewis Jr. COM/172 October 19, 2011 War: An Anatomy of Madness Contrary to past wars, Americans are not asked to conserve on gas, or consume less sugar. No draft to protest as during the Vietnam War, and the air raid drills of cold war years are a thing of the past. Still the consequences of wars, even though at times necessary, are social and political trauma, the impact on society and the morality of war is inconsistent with the ideas of ethical decency
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Anticommunism and McCarthyism Paper HIS/145 December 19, 2011 ANITCOMMUNSIM AND MCCARTHYISM PAPER The differences are that McCarthyism was a radical expression of anti-communism, because anti-communism was a political belief that was against any social, cultural, political, and foreign policy that supported a government controlled state, economy, and cultural life. McCarthyism sought to fight communism by rooting out disloyal government officials through hearings, investigations, and
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America's Savior In a time when America was at an all time low, a retired actor from a small town in Illinois would rally Americans to stand together and overcome a crumbling economy, communism, growing foreign tensions with the middle east, and to wage war on the home front against the use and spread of drugs. To many all around the world , this man would become the savior of America. Ronald Wilson Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 to Jack and Nelle Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. The Reagan family
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destructive behavior. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan, not to stop a destructive behavior, but to project their own wants and needs (for the oil and other resources) onto Afghan culture. Forcing them to submit to foreign rule, the people of Afghanistan fought back to protect their land, as a result creating a war that lasted for ten years. This conflict came to be known as the Soviet-Afghan War. Ultimately, the Soviet Union lost the war and retreated from Afghanistan
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The Cold War and Consumer Culture: 1945-1961 William (Mike) Nufer HIS/145 The American Experience Since 1945 January 12, 2012 Jason Rodarte University of Phoenix The Cold War and Consumer Culture: 1945-1961 In week one of this class it is asked of all students to write a paper on the Cold War and consumer culture. In this paper it will analyze the causes of the cold war, show Cold War policies and show international relations of the late 1940’s though the mid-1950’s. It will
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in 1947 offering financial aid to any country who needed it. Theoretically, this did not exclude Eastern Europe but it was assumed that it didn’t apply to them as they were not capitalist. These two events did contribute to the development of the cold war as it was one of the first times that the west had directly taken action against the East and their ideology and actions. In addition to this, in 1947 the soviets responded by starting Comintern which was a unity of all communist governments – allowing
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The Vietnam War by Robin Davis The Vietnam War sparked a major antiwar movement in the United States-- not only among students who were eligible to be drafted after graduation, but also among civilians protesting in the streets and even soldiers in the military. Following the lead of the recent civil rights movement, which proved that social protest could be effective, the antiwar movement used the same tactics of civil disobedience. College students, while not the only ones to protest, played
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