Nuclear weapons in the Cold War changed how wars were fought because it was the beginning of an era where wars were no longer fought in the conventional sense. The creation of nuclear weapons meant that people lived in a constant state of fear of nuclear war. In order to ensure national security and protection states‚ primarily the United States and Russia the leading superpowers in the Cold War‚ needed to have a strong deterrence policy to prevent the other state from launching a nuclear attack
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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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The Cold War was a period of hostility and rising tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union beginning soon after the end of World War II‚ lasting from 1945 until 1989. The Cold War originated from conflict over the type of government in Eastern Europe after the war. The United States pushed for freely elected governments while the Soviet Union denied it. At the Potsdam Conference in July 1945‚ shortly after the death of Franklin Roosevelt‚ the new president‚ Harry Truman ordered instant
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mistakes that the US must learn from to prevent themselves from being deceived by enemies‚ both foreign and domestic. For example‚ during the Cold War‚ the United States wanted to “contain” communism to the regimes that had initially declared it as their standard of government‚ which is why the United States pleaded to the United Nations to intervene in the Korean War. Initially the United States was only to intervene under the containment doctrine which provided a limit as to how far the United States
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In the historical disputes over Ronald Reagan and his presidency‚ the Berlin Wall speech lies at the center. In the ensuing years‚ two fundamentally different perspectives have emerged. In one‚ the speech was the event that led to the end of the cold war. In the other‚ the speech was mere showmanship‚ without substance. Both perspectives are wrong. Neither deals adequately with the underlying significance of the speech‚ which encapsulated Mr. Reagan’s successful but complex approach to dealing with
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There were no sustained mass struggle against segregation from years 1945 – 1954 because there were two developments during this period that stunted and delayed the progression of African American civil rights movement. First‚ was the granting of civil rights‚ however they served as temporary appeasement for blacks. Which also had social and political limitations. Second‚ the fear of communism evoked by the Cold War shifted the focus from domestic resolution to international issues. Some of the
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The cold war was a conflict between the US and the Soviet Union. The conflict was about democray and communism. In the late 1950’s the "Red Scare" came upon The US. The "Red Scare‚" in the US was the fear of being taken over by communists. In the US communism was viewed as treason. One of the causes of the "Red Scare‚" were the Roseber trial. The Rosenbergs were thought to have given high classified information to the Soviets.Some of effects were internationally‚ The Iron Curtain‚which was an imaginary
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Mark Juergensmeyer’s “The New Cold War”: Smith mentioned Juergensmeyer‚ who in “The New Cold War: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State” (Juergensmeyer 1993) attempted to deal with the question of religious nationalism and the expected conflict between it and the secular society. While Juergensmeyer does deal with a nationalism that is religious‚ his definition seems to be influenced by secularization theory‚ presenting religion opposed to the secular society with no chance for the two
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THE COLD WAR in the 1960’s * MAD Theory (Mutually Assured Destruction) * The Cuban Missile Crisis (Oct. 1962) * Why the crisis happened? (Khrushchev‚ Fidel Castro & Cuba) * Was JFK a hawk or a dove? * Impacts of the crisis: flexible response & trend toward détente * Missles out of Cuba * Missles out of Germany * Can’t invade Cuba with force. THE WAR IN VIETNAM * It was America’s longest war * Some numbers: $ 150 billion ($600
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Lucile Poitevin Who was more responsible for the Cold War? The Cold War was an undeclared and nonviolent War between the USA and the USSR. There are different points of view to the date of the beginning of the Cold War by the historian. They argue that it started in July 1945‚ at the Potsdam Conference. Others argue that the dropping of the atomic bomb in August 1945 was the actual start of the Cold War. To open up‚ we are going to observe how the USA was more responsible‚ to follow we are going
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