Cold War: A Short Story

It is 1945 and some of my generation has already arrived, with more yet to come. The month is June and I just arrived. President Truman is in office. The war in Europe just ended, and the war with Japan is about to end. The Cold War has started but it will be two years before they officially call it the Cold War. In case you were wondering that is me in the carriage, as you can see I am not really too concerned about world events as of yet. I’m pretty sure that the rest of my generation isn’t either. It is also my guess that we won’t be for a while. However, as I said history is relevant and many world events will take place in the next nineteen years that will lead some of us toward war, and others toward what I believe to committing the unforgivable crime of treason.

Daisaku Ikeda, a spiritual leader for Japan once commented, ‘Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.’ The world has experienced the bombings of Japan, of Pearl Harbor and the conflict of the Cold War, but even with these conflicts present in our history, warning us of the effects, these meaning have not carried through into society today. Currently in the Middle East, we are witnessing the elements of a modern day cold war starting to appear. Israel and Iran have been in arguments and disagreements about nuclear weaponry since 2012. Their different religious view and ideologies has flourished into more than a religious tension but that of a modern day cold way.

In 1961 President John F Kennedy put together a doctrine, which altered from President Eisenhower’s one. It was to “Respond flexibly to communist expansion, especially guerrilla warfare.” (Roskin & Berry, 2010, p. 58) It was a time when the Cold War was at its height and nuclear weapons a mass threat and source of power. This doctrine was aimed at using alternative means before opening into combat. This, in light of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, it succeeded in doing.

The Cold War was a clash of culture, ideologies, and a standoff between the world 's two greatest nuclear powers. The argument of the American side was based around Capitalism and a hunger for ever growing business while the Soviet Union’s was structured around Communism and it’s powerful theocracy that stated it must be spread to every country on the planet. As a result, there has been much debate about whether the U.S. initiated the Cold War through their usage of the atomic bomb in World War II, or the Soviet Union did with their extreme cultural and military expansion. However, the phrasing of the original question makes this clear from a schoolyard fight perspective. It comes down to who threw the first punch? Without a doubt, it was the United States, using the most powerful weapon known to mankind in an attempt to put Japan down for good and flex their muscles as a new world power.

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Everything was quiet, masked by the thick morning mist. We closed in upon our prey like wolves in a herd of sheep. Our Foggy cover did not last much longer, as we closed in on the beach, but we needed that victory, like a wolf needs its supper. Everything was resting on the shoulders of that one moment, the moment we set foot upon the Turkish shores. That was the moment when we would know if victory could be seized.

Cold. Cold and dark. Trench plummeted down the ether tunnel. His legs flailed. His arms twisted. Void enshrouded his body and a stygian darkness wet his skin. Trench screamed. Emptiness screamed back. A halo jostled beneath his feet. It drew closer. Trench braced himself. His stomach lurched. The ether tore asunder and light hit his face and he launched through the World Womb like a bullet.

In the year 3000 A.D there is no civilization. Earth has been decimated by a terrible nuclear war and man is extinct. In their last months on earth, humankind built thousands of fallout shelters. In these shelters were cryo stasis tubes that would keep the residents asleep until the day came when earth could be inhabited.

would hit them with a chaingun spewing out 200 bolts a minute. Quickly, but not easily, the first wave was killed.

It was a moist, rainy day in Tampa. But for Tom it was just a normal, regular day.

He withdrew his talwar from his scabbard with the shrill grate of metal on metal. Two hooded silhouettes materialized from the terrace.

It was a woman dressed in a white lab coat, her hand covered in a hastily wrapped bandage. She looked completely terrified.

With fury enlightening his soul, Gus exposed his razor-sharp claws to the giant, bloodthirsty ogre. Adrenaline was pumping through Gus's veins ready to claw through his skull and dissect him from head to toe. Every step he took he could feel the floor vibrating as if there was an earthquake. He took a big shaky gasp of air and let out the biggest howl his even done. He could feel his veins pumping out of his furry neck as he howled. A few seconds later the Wolf pack have arrived. The moon was finally fully exposed enriching them with power. All 20 of them, lined up getting ready to charge at the fierce ogre. He let out a mighty ogre roar which summoned his donkeys that worship him. There was not a sound but birds chirping and hearts pumping

Always watching the news, Randy is well informed. He reckons to have knowledge in the past, present and future. He fancies to know what is going on around the world, especially the U.S. During tense relations between the Soviet Union and the U.S.A, the world is left to wonder what will it escalate to.

The Origins of the Cold War The Cold War period from 1945 to 1985 was a result of distrust and misunderstanding between the USSR and the United States of America. This distrust never actually resulted any fighting between the two superpowers but they came very close to fighting on several occasions. The Cold War was a result of many different events and factors including the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the Potsdam Conference of 1945, the differences between communism and capitalism, the 'Iron curtain' speech and Marshall Aid.