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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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    as much. A key moment in American foreign policy history was during the Cold War era. During the Cold War the main priority of the U.S. was ending communism which eve n meant siding with terrorists. It even entailed involvement in Iran’s presidential election. At the time many were in favor of what the United States

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    In his book‚ “The Cold War‚ ” Hugh Higgins argues the tragedies and facts that contributed and occurred in this event. This book is mainly to inform people about some the unspoken truths of this occurrence and show its reasons and effects in old society. The Cold War is a book based on the story of the entire society living at that time‚ mostly focusing on its contributors and effectors. This novel is not written during the era but rather based of previous works written around that time such a “Yalta

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    affected many countries through affecting the Cold War. The revolution changed social‚ political and economic factors in many South American countries. Looking at the Cuban Revolution will give an insight on how political changes affect historical time periods. After Castro had established a communist Cuba‚ he wouldn’t stop there. Castro‚ the leader of Cuba‚ would then aid other revolutionary countries in hopes to spread communism. The Cold War was all about the stopping and spreading of

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    demanded freedom from Eastern Europe and Yeltsin’s demands of ”democratization and rapid economic changes”. The end of the Cold War led to the Soviet Union’s collapse which happened because of Mikhail Gorbachev and his reform changes. The Cold War was a long and brutal battle.

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    The Cold War was a conflict between the west lead United States of America and the communist block lead by the former Soviet Union. It lasted almost 4 decades and a half from 1945-1991- the collapse of USSR. It was fought in neutral areas‚ space‚ Africa and Asia. It was fought in all manners including: an economic war‚ media and propaganda‚ diplomatic struggles and military conflicts. Prior to the Second World there were economic‚ political‚ and ideological differences that were put aside so

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    American Studies Unit Test Study Guide 8 Cold War Conflicts * Communism: state controlled all property and economic activity; totalitarian government with no opposing parties * Capitalism: private citizens controlled all economic activity; people vote * Distrust: (USSR) Stalin resented the Western Allies’ delay in attacking the Germans in Europe and US’s secret development of Atomic bomb; (US) Stalin’s 1939 non-aggression pact with Hitler‚ and he prevented free elections in Poland

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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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    Communist. These trust issues are what led to many incidents and disagreements. These issues are what led to the Cold War. During the early stages of the Cold War‚ fear and tensions were increased because of the Red Scare‚ McCarthyism‚ and the Rosenberg Trial. The Red Scare was the cause / creation of fear‚ of a potential rise of Communism. This was the main cause of the Cold War. The Red Scare was based on the fact that Communism was spreading rapidly. People were scared that it was to reach

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    The complex dynamic between the Soviet Union and the United States of America was not ever present‚ but evolved out of a series of key disagreements during World War II. With the onset of Operation Barbarossa‚ Nazi Germany shifted emphasis from an already dominated Western Europe to its eastern border with Russia. The betrayal of the Nazi-Soviet non aggression pact came as a surprise to Stalin‚ who quickly began mobilizing fighting aged men to bolster his vulnerable ground defenses. The resulting

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