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    Georgizhukov: Led troops into Berlin‚ paraded on horse. Stalin says “screws.. without whom all of us would not be worth a damn”... then sends him in to exile Andrei Gromyko: Soviet Ambassador to Washington (1943-1945) “Stalin oriented towards post war cooperation with the West (US)” (39) Maxim Litvinov: Russian revolutionary diplomat. Jew and old Bolshevik‚ he hated the rigidity and xenophobia. He discussed pos ware reparations and peace treaties (40).. “argued strongly for the possibility of

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    Responsible for the Start of the Cold War? Although differences between communism and capitalism - two opposing systems - existed before the start of World War II‚ relations between the United States and USSR deteriorated rapidly after the war. The US was so opposed to communism that a policy of containment was developed to prevent communism spreading. In addition‚ open hostility‚ lack of understanding‚ and deliberate provoking further separated the two countries. Though the Cold War was a result of many factors

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    Alicia B. Vaughner | How Did the Cold War Begin? | | | POL 300 027016*201004 | Strayer University | | How Did the Cold War Begin? No one seems to be able to agree on an exact date of when the Cold War began. There was never an official announcement of warfare to note the start beginning of the conflict. The cause of the Cold War stems from many causes. However‚ it was mainly due to conflict between the United States and the then Soviet Union. “Both the United States and the Soviet

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    The Cold War era was guided by the policy of “containment”. The word was mainly used only in its foreign policy version‚ first articulated by George F. Kennan in 1947. Through actions of the United States‚ the power of the Soviet Union would not endanger national security if it could be contained within a clearly defined sphere of influence. (The Sources of Soviet Conduct) However‚ this term also describes the United States government’s response to other postwar domestic developments. Although many

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    The Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can

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    the weapon back to full machine gun mode. The weapon obeyed and launched a hail of bullets. ‘Splash two‚’ he thought as they went down. The squad finally made it out in one piece. Every face was his to remember for the rest of his life. During the war‚ he had personally greased 127 and relived the moment that each of them died. He had watched hundreds of his allies fall in the field and he couldn’t help them. It was impossible to save his fellow soldiers whose blood so often covered his uniform

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    1. In your opinion‚ was the Cold War inevitable? If not‚ was the United States or the USSR more to blame? Although both Truman and Stalin helped increase tensions in Europe and East Asia in the years immediately following World War II‚ the Cold War itself was likely inevitable. The alliance that had formed between the United States and the USSR during World War II was not strong enough to overcome the past decades of suspicion and unease between the two nations. Moreover‚ as both leaders sought

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    direct war with each other (source 11). This meant that the USSR was only able to support North Vietnam through supplying China with arms who in turn would arm the North Vietnamese (source 11). Nevertheless‚ the Vietnam war was still composed of the “classic Cold War” scenario (source 11)‚ as there was support from the Capitalist west as well as support from the communist East in conflict against each other. In addition‚ the opposing ideologies of the Cold War further influenced the Vietnam war. The

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    Soviet Union responsible for the origins of the Cold War? (15 marks)   The Cold War was the periods of hostility and high tension between USA and USSR that stopped just short of war‚ in the time period 1945 to 1991‚ and sometimes dated back to 1917. It was essentially an ideological conflict between the communist USSR and the capitalist USA‚ which was marked with arms race‚ economic rivalry‚ development of huge espionage networks‚ propaganda and proxy wars‚ formation of the alliance system and spheres

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    LIBERALISM IN POST COLD WAR SCENARIO: ROLE OF NON-STATE ACTORS By: M.Sc Student Jawad Falak Course Title: International Relations Since 1945 Roll No: 2013 Semester: 2nd Submitted to: Sir Aleem Gillani Department of International Relations National Defence University Islamabad Abstract In the contemporary world‚ the battle for dominance for the political systems to govern International Relations is still raging. The end of the Cold war and the fall of the Soviet Union

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