Ralph B. Levering’s The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History Review by JD Sharp Ralph B. Levering breaks down the complexities of the Cold War into phases‚ allowing readers to digest the information with ease in The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History. Based on his previous works‚ it would seem as Levering is qualified to write on this topic. Levering Received his advanced degree from Princeton University. He currently history teaches at Davidson College and has taught at a myriad of other
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However‚ there is a reason. The Cold War triggered an explosion of growth and interconnectivity. And it came close to triggering several other literal explosions. Global economy changed abundantly because of the cold war. Fighting broke out in many developing countries‚ stunting the growth of their economy‚ and widening the gap between the poor and rich. Other developed countries spent exorbitant amounts of money stockpiling weapons. Although the cold war did not have all good effects on
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How Ronald Reagan Won the Cold War Ronald Reagan was the key individual whose political‚ economic and military initiatives were later responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall and victory of the United States in the Cold War. The policies implemented by the Reagan Administration were released in declassified National Security Decision Directives stating to use “economic‚ military and political initiatives..[to] convince the Soviet ruling that unless it shared power
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Was the basis of the Cold War ideological‚ economic‚ or geopolitical? The basis of the Cold War was geopolitical. Although ideology made some degree of conflict between the communist world and the capitalist world‚ the struggle was largely fought over issues such as global power and influence. The US concluded that the USSR wanted to destroy democratic and capitalism. The Soviet Union feared that the US wanted to use its money and power to dominate Europe and eventually destroy the USSR. The distrust
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Effects of the Cold War on Canada The distrust between the Western World and Communists‚ as well as the conditions after WWII caused the Cold War to begin. From 1946 to 1991 a mass arms race rose and Canada was stuck in between the grudge of capitalism and communism. The Cold War affected Canada through Canadian citizens fear of being nuked‚ sexism against women and the unfair treatment towards communists & socialists. With Canada’s ally the United States partaking in the Cold War with the Soviet
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reason for the development of the Cold War from 1945-1972’. How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer using your subject knowledge. (16marks) I don’t believe that the arms race was the main reason for the development of the Cold War from 1945-1972. Although it clearly illustrated the intense rivalry between the USA and the USSR‚ it was simply one of many factors contributing to the war between communism and capitalism. When the USA ended World War Two by dropping the atomic bomb
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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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‘At the root of the Cold War was the German Question.’ Discuss. 1945 was a momentous year for change; the war was over‚ an atomic bomb had been used Germany was divided‚ decolonisation had created a power vacuum‚ and a harrowing symbiosis between America and the USSR had developed. The Cold War which subsequently arose was not like the other endemic wars of the past millennium‚ it was a combination of two kinds of war; it was both an ideological confrontation and a struggle to maintain the balance
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an event from certain decades is not as easy as it may seem. Some of the decades had more than one event going on but only one had a significant impact on that decade. So the events mentioned will be those who have had a powerful impact culturally‚ economically and on government policies but those who had an influence here in the United States. The following decades are being put into the light and those are the 50s‚ 60s‚ 70s‚ 80s and the 90s. 1950’s – The Cold War The Cold War and its
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The Cold War is considered to be a significant event in Modern World History. The Cold War dominated a rather long time period: between 1945‚ or the end of the World War II‚ and 1990‚ the collapse of the USSR. This period involved the relationships between two superpowers: the United States and the USSR. The Cold War began in Eastern Europe and Germany‚ according to the researchers of the Institute of Contemporary British History (Warner 15). Researchers state that “the USSR and the United States
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