Part A After World War II, tensions began to increase between the U.S. and the Soviet Union largely based on mistrust. On one side, America had not been invaded, had nuclear weapons, and was rebuilding Japan and Europe. On the other side, the Soviets had lost millions of people and had a decimated infrastructure and agricultural economy. To protect itself from perceived aggressive, the Soviets occupied Eastern Europe and the Iron Curtain was born, giving way to the term Cold War. The major U.S. foreign…

With the end of the “Cold War”, the hypothesis of war between states declined and created opportunities for peace and security. However, new types of conflicts, new challenges for maintaining international security and new threats to peace emerged. The U.S. attacks on September 11, 2001, marked a before and after in international relations, security concepts, and the emergence of new threats. Governments have had the necessity to change and to design new strategies to address these new threats. Furthermore…

in an infamous battle against ideologies: The Cold War. Even though war took place during this time, both powers were not involved in battle directly, hence the name cold war. The war mainly consisted of assumed and implied threats of nuclear attacks and political control over states in Europe. Even before 1945, the beginning of the Cold War, tension brewed between the U.S and the U.S.S.R. Both sides had differing views on Europe 's state after the war. For instance, programs like the Marshall Plan…

Many of the theories and much of the research in the subject of international relations have arisen from the study of the Cold War. International Relations as a discipline began after World War II to predict and prevent such events from happening again; as such, the Cold War was evaluated by nearly everyone in the field. Even with all of this analysis, the abrupt end of the Cold War came as a surprise unpredicted by scholars. Since then, the causes of the end to the have been studied and placed into…

COLD WAR TERMINATION Most historians and foreign policy analysts in 1981 did not anticipate that within a decade the Cold War would be over and that it would end with relatively little violence and the end of the Soviet Union. Structural forces have received considerably less attention than the players in assessments on the end of the Cold War. There is widespread recognition that a stagnating Soviet economy definitely shaped Gorbachev 's policy of perestroika to revive a command economy dominated…

know the Cold War as a period of political and state tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This era is often associated with the advancement of scientific research and arms build up as a result of the competition between these world superpowers, especially through the development of the nuclear bomb. Aside from the actual politics of the Cold War, Joseph Masco, professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago, argues in his novel, The Theater of Operations, that the Cold War provided…

Despite the high costs of war both in monetary value and in terms of potential life and infrastructure lost states and their actors despite their supposed rationality still seek war at times. Sometimes war is unavoidable given the situations that actors find themselves in. States prior to war will attempt several options such as bargaining and it is that failure in bargaining that tends to result in conflict or war. Especially following the events of the Cold War numerous scholars have given their…

Timeline “Birth of a Nation” & D.W. Griffin is a movie based on a play with the setting during the civil war. It is about to opposite families living in the Northern states and the Southern states. “Black Jack” Pershing, also name John J. Pershing was a general of the army during the WWI. He holds the record of the highest rank in the army. Anthracite Coal Strike was a kind of violent protest against mine owners. It was basically over the pay wages and hours worked. Article X was basically a document…

My research question is aimed at showing how the cold war led to establishment of supranational institutions and how realism as a level of analysis failed to predict the events that led to the end of the cold war? How the Cold War Led To Supranational Influences From the beginning of the Cold War there have been many tensions between the East and West superpowers. The proposal of the Marshal Plan of June 1947 put the integration of Europe on the map for international relations. The creators of…

series on the topic of the Cold war but today we will be exploring the Vietnam War into detail. The topic that will be discussed tonight is that towards the end of the twentieth century the amount of democratic countries had quintupled. This was not expected at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now the question is Did the US use the cold war to further spread democracy to other countries and also contain the spread of communism? We will be exploring how the Vietnam War had an effect on this. Just…