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    Cold War Interview

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    May 30‚ 2012 Block 5 Mrs. Hughes Cold War The cold war affected many countries and people. It lasted about 46 years and it had the most casualties. It worried and hurt millions of people world wide. There was so much that happened during the cold war. Throughout the war it seemed that people all around the world were scared for their lives and their families. People that grew up during the cold war grew up around nuclear bomb threats‚ watching or listening to the news about people talking about

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    Cold War and Containment

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    Cold War and Containment Dated from 1947-1991 the Cold War was an intense economic‚ political‚ ideological‚ and military tension between the powers of the Western world‚ led by the United States against the powers of the Eastern world led by the Soviet Union. Because of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) these two countries never came head to head like previous wars‚ however they would fight each other in proxy wars. This sustained a high level of hostility throughout the war and

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    Containment and the Cold War In February 1946‚ George F. Kennan‚ an American diplomat in Moscow‚ proposed a policy of containment. Containment is the blocking of another nation’s attempts to spread its influence. During the late 1940s and early 1950s the United States used this policy against the Soviets. The United States wanted to take measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries. The conflicting U.S. and Soviet aims in Eastern Europe led to the Cold War. The Berlin airlift

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    Cold War Origins

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    The origins of the Cold War lie in the differences between the systems of both the United States and the Soviet Union. It is an interplay between ideology and pragmatic power politics‚ and the creation of tension and mistrust which had been evident since the Russian Revolution. During World War II differences were put aside‚ but the problems reappeared‚ and it was a changing post-war world. There are three major common explanations for the origins of the Cold War: traditional‚ revisionist‚ and post-revisionist

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    Cold War , Unavoidable ?

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    THE COLD WAR WAS UNAVOIDABLE DO YOU AGREE? 43 years had passed by ‚ but there was no conflict amongst the two superpowers of the United States and the USSR ‚ their relation well before was hostile ‚ i.e . nothing was as such in a situation to be declared or called a cold war‚ in fact situations were pretty good ‚ but as it is said good things always have an end and cannot last forever ‚time passed by ‚ things changed and then began a phase of clashes

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    Cold War in Guatemala

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    The Cold War in Guatemala Guatemala is known for being one of the most dangerous countries in Central America; nevertheless‚ it is not its fault that it is the way it is. During the Cold War there were many factors involved and many events that led to the Guatemala of today. It all began with the election of Colonel Arbenz during the “Ten Years of Springtime” which ended because President Eisenhower was influenced by his connections to Guatemala´s “state within a state‚” (TWT) the United Fruit

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    The Cold War Canada

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    The 1970’s Canada in the Cold War Canada was a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which was the name of the alliance they had formed. The main goal for the NATO was to prevent the spread of communism. Although Canada wasn’t dominant or recognized as having the influence the world‚ the country still had a moderate influence and recognition internationally. The Vietnam War The U.S. had interest in defending South Vietnam against a communist movement supported by North Vietnam

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    The Cold War and Africa

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    The Cold War For more than forty years‚ the two superpowers‚ the United States and the Soviet Union directly thrented each other with nuclear weapons. This period of time is referred to as the cold war. In my research paper I will be describing the cold war in full details‚ the people that influence the war‚ and introducing the major affect that the war played in society. During the Cold War the containment was hard to control. Mutual suspicion had long existed between the West and the USSR(Union

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    Spies of the Cold War

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    Spies in the Cold War Spies had a great role in the cold war‚ a lot of spies were in different areas to find out what other countries were doing or planning to do to then bring back the information to the country they were working for. There were many types of espionage in the cold war for different countries in order to find information that can lead to a victory in the war. I will need to research the different types of espionage there was and what they were looking for‚ I will also need to

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    Cold War DBQ

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    Samantha Aurelio 31 March 2015 APUSH Cold War DBQ During the time period pertaining to the Cold War‚ the foreign policies and ideas established by each president remained in effect despite social and political unrest. However‚ United States’ involvement in the eastern hemisphere‚ governmental influence in the nation and in the “hot wars”‚ and presidential diplomacy caused foreign policies and ideas to contain many similarities throughout the duration of the Cold War. Therefore‚ the United States experienced

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