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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Only time will tell if this New Cold War will come to fruition‚ or if it’s just a scare tactic for countries involved to not continuously continue down a certain political and military path. Three people were interviewed regarding their knowledge of the cold war for the purposes of this paper. The names of the interviewees are Brandon Fields‚ Douglas Fields and Cassondra Ward Regis. Brandon Fields‚ age 25 and Douglas Fields‚ age 57 are family members who live back home in Richmond Virginia
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Cold War Influence in Latin America The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game‚ with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians‚ a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere‚ America’s “backyard”‚ it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong
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The fear of communism extends into the US‚ Over 80‚000 communists in the US after WWII‚ Some members of the government turned over documents to a pro-communist magazine. Loyalty review board for government employees created by Truman from 1947-1951 3.2 million were investigated‚ 212 were fired as a result‚ and 2900 quite to avoid being investigated. HUCA- House Committee of Un-American Activities: Developed a committee to search out disloyal Americans before WWII. In 1947 they began investigation
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To The Cold War “I believe to we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way”-Truman For Containment (Truman 36). While all the Cold War presidents had their issues‚ Truman and Eisenhower favored containment to attempt the stop of communism and Kennedy favored flexible response as an attempt. “I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and order political processes” (Truman 37). This explained
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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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of the Cold War in the Mid 1900’s In the mid 1900’s the term Cold War would be used to describe the relationship between the United States and the USSR. With the United States possessing a powerful weapon known as the atomic bomb; the USSR would not be long behind them after World War II with their own atomic bomb. During this time period the USSR and the United States relationship would dissolve because of the United States holding back information at the Yalta Conference. The Cold War would
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The Cold War was a time of great competition between the United States and the Soviet Union; one of the competitions being the Space Race. Due to advancements in technology throughout the world pressured by the Cold War‚ the United States and the Soviet Union were able to push their way into space‚ each trying to outdo the other‚ eventually resulting in the United States putting the first man on the moon on July 20‚ 1969 during the Apollo 11 mission. The United States beating the Soviet Union to
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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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Hitler was already dead and committed suicide in his berlin bunker on April 30. Germany was divided into four occupation zones‚ that are controlled by the Soviet Union‚ Britain‚ the United States‚ and France. The united nations is built off of the principle of collective security. Collective security is supposed to prevent future conflicts that will happen. Collective security is used so if a nation attacks another nations everyone should help the nation being attacked to prevent a war. The Cold
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