other. The United States and Soviet Union had nuclear missiles aimed at each other and had World War 3 in their near future until Canada intervened and diverted it. That is why Canada should be labeled an effective middle power during the Cold War era. Canada helped out alot with ending the Cold War by using their advanced technology‚ diplomatic skills‚ and with their peaceful mentality. Though the Cold War had some physical conflict throughout it‚ most of the the conflict was flexing and showing off
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The Cold War was caused by the United States. The Cold War was a series of battles in Russia during the 1940’s fought between the U.S and Russia. The U.S caused the war because they didn’t share information about the atom bomb with anyone and that scared Russia causing them to go to war with them. Another reason why the U.S caused the war was because they tried to turn the buffer states around Russia to a Democracy and Stalin really opposed that and was very angered. The last reason why the U.S caused
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Four “tools” made the Containment Policy strong enough to prevail and push Soviet troops back‚ avoiding a third world war and soon ending the Cold War. The first aid in the Containment Policy was the Truman Doctrine. This doctrine made the support of free people and countries who are falling to Soviet powers‚ a policy of the United States. Truman urged Greece to cease their Civil War of 1949. He argued that if Greece and Turkey did not accept his financial aid and economical support‚ they would soon
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THE COLD WAR NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF THE 1980 ’S The pope quickly organized a meeting to prepare the world for a weapon that would destroy all life on earth. "Pope Innocent II organized the conference in 11391" because of a crossbow. Approximately 800 years from this conference‚ the Cold War has begun. The potential of mass destruction could occur at any moment. More efforts for mining and technology went toward constructing nuclear weapons. Missiles‚ such as‚ the Tomahawk® Cruise Missile and
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During the Cold War period there was a conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and the democratic nations led by the United States. The United States and the Soviet Union represented two opposing government systems. One of the direct threats to the citizens of America was the possibility of a nuclear war because of the two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki‚ evidence existed to show how horrible a full-blown nuclear exchange would possibly erupt. This began because Cuba
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Cold War Impact on US Foreign Policy The mentality of the Cold War greatly affected the decisions made by the Presidents that held the office from 1950 to 1974. The main thought that prevailed from the beginning of the Cold War was containment. It was the main goal of the United States to contain the spread of Communism whenever possible. “Brinkmanship” was the first major policy that was employed by the United States in the effort to stop the spread of Communism throughout the world. President
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Race After fighting alongside each other in the Second World War to defeat a common enemy‚ differing political ideologies resulted in high tensions between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet communist government‚ initiated during the Bolshevik Revolution‚ posed a direct threat to the goal of the United States to spread democracy and capitalism across the globe. These rising tensions manifested themselves in the form of the Cold War-a series of conflicts and antagonism between the two nations
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Although I think that a lot of people think of Reagan when they think of the end of the Cold War and the collapse‚ to give him the whole credit for the triumph or victory is wrong. From the beginning of his presidency Reagan wanted nothing more than to see the Soviet Union fall or to at least stop growing. He and many others looked toward our military to be ready for in that readiness he said we will find Peace. His administration spent billions of dollars on defense contracts to research and develop
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Reem Akram Chaudhry (History IB HL) History Arguments The Cold war – Mike Sewell Provide evidence for each of the arguments listed. 1. The cold war was brought about by the inability of the victorious powers to come to an arrangement among themselves. “The Anglo-American solidarity in rejecting the idea came as a surprise to the Soviets.” (pg 19) Ideological mistrust and memories of Munich remained strong. This was reinforced by Stalin’s suspicions that Anglo-American strategy was
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During the Cold War in Iran there were lots of events‚ one event in the Iran Cold War was when the Soviet withdrawals from Iran.The Iran crisis started while World War II was going on. A very bad time in history. In 1942‚ Iran made an agreement that British and Soviet troops got permission into the country but only to defend the oil filled nation from a German attack. American troops were also butting into Iran and their business. March 2‚ 1946 was the end of the withdrawal of foreign troops because
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