The Cold War was a major event that shaped the American scientific community and the university system. Universities targeted their focus on creating more doctorate students particularly‚ in scientific fields such as Physics in order to man the large scale science projects happening in the United States. The scientific community became more dependent on the support of the government to create laboratories and provide equipment for their research and development. Though this aid created a lack of
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they did not fight directly‚ were actively engaged in the Cold War. This war did not end until the USSR broke apart in 1991. The Cold War was both created and prolonged by the interconnected economic and ideological tensions of the East and West Blocs. The ideological systems of the two powers were viewed as being complete opposites in their goals and experienced increasing animosity toward each other. This in turn influenced the economic policies that drove the main powers of the Cold War even further
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Sean Keith AMSTU Cold War DBQ Essay The growing fear of the spread of communism throughout the World during the Cold War era resulted in the United States making brash and misguided decisions stemming from the values of the containment policy. This era was marked by concern that other nations‚ especially those in the Western Hemisphere‚ would fall to Soviet influence‚ and additionally‚ that there were communist supporters within the United States‚ potentially in government offices. Americans
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The Cold War Germany was defeated after World War II and then we had to know how to care for them and rebuild a stable society for the defeated country or the Germans would be angry and will rise against. Germany was divided among 3 powers and after the war where Germany and also Japan had been defeated where they would occupy or settle was being figured out. The capital was divided among the allies. The German Empire where they had conquered Estonia‚ Latvia‚ and Lithuania was able to be kept
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they did not fight directly‚ were actively engaged in the Cold War. This war did not end until the USSR broke apart in 1991. The Cold War was both created and prolonged by the interconnected economic and ideological tensions of the East and West Blocs. The ideological systems of the two powers were viewed as being complete opposites in their goals and experienced increasing animosity toward each other. This in turn influenced the economic policies that drove the main powers of the Cold War even further
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offensive and presented himself as a "man of the people". U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided meeting Castro‚ but was instead met by Vice President Richard Nixon‚ a man Castro instantly disliked. Proceeding to Canada‚ Trinidad‚ Brazil‚ Uruguay and Argentina‚ Castro attended an economic conference in Buenos Aires‚ unsuccessfully proposing a $30 billion U.S.-funded "Marshall Plan" for Latin America. After appointing himself president of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (Instituto Nacional
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The Cold War By Michael L. Parker American Public University System January 16‚ 2013 HIST102: American History since 1877 Professor Poster The Cold War After the end of World War two‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were the two main super powers left standing. Both countries were afraid of each other in different ways. The United States was worried that the Soviet Union was trying to expand its communist ways by invading other countries. They were also worried because the Soviets
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Cold War My first inclination would be to answer the first question with a clear "YES". But come to think of it‚ the causes of war really have not changed at all‚ or at least very little. Rather than changes‚ there has been a shift in the causes. The cause of war which has dominated the last 50 years was the cause of ideology. However‚ due to the recent end of the Cold War‚ this cause of war‚ has significantly declined and is almost trivial. The causes of war have shifted from mainly ideological
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Did the end of the Cold War make Europe more or less secure? In the late 1940’s Europe was divided into two separate blocs. The Cold War for Europe was illustrated by the existence of two opposed camps across a divided Germany. The end of the Cold War in 1989 and the reunification of Germany in 1990 brought about a transformation in the European security environment unrecognisable from that which had existed five years earlier. The system of two militarized blocs ceased to function. The Warsaw
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Between the Cold War‚ the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War‚ there was a great deal of animosity and conflict amongst U.S. citizens. Notably‚ the Cold War had ideological and geological conflicts had sizable impacts on Vietnam in terms of economic and military assistance. Additionally‚ the Vietnam War was not all as it appeared to be. While Americans were leery of cost and the amount of soldiers being drafted‚ unimaginable occurrences were taking place as well as incidents going unreported
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