The Causes And Cons Of The Cold War

The Cold War, which took place from 1947 to 1991 had eventually altered the Latin America's relationship with the United States profoundly, as the region became a battleground between two different competing ideological systems which was capitalism and communism. Prior to the Cold War, both economic and geopolitical concerns had motivated United States policy toward Latin America. But, after the lowering of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, George Kennan, the chief architect of American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union, advocated containment to stop the spreading of communism, not just in Europe, but including the countries all around the world. The result was a bipolar world featuring proxy wars fought throughout the Third World by alternates and clients of the two superpowers. Latin American nations are historically considered to be part of "our backyard," who were not permitted to remain neutral as Washington expected the Latin American countries to ally with the United States, while the Soviet Union sought to gain access to what had been an American sphere of influence and after world war II many Latin American countries such as Cuba faced political, economic and social challenges.

The Cold War was not a war in a traditional sense, but more of a nations psychological caliber. The Cold War was a battle of influence: which nation could manipulate the other through fear and take advantage through said fear. It changed what war meant to the people, and the impact of how we see the world. The Cold War began just as World War II ended in 1945. The United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) rose to be the primary two national powers after the war. Most, if not all of Europe was left in disarrayed and riddled with debt. The US and USSR saw this as an opportunity and acted upon.

After the end of the Second World War, the world was left with two fundamental economical systems competing for world acceptance (or coercion, depending on whose propaganda news were provided). The United States and the Soviet Union were the champions of capitalism and communism, respectively, two opposite ways of life regulating everything from personal freedoms to ways of life. And upon completion of the war, both tried to expand their zones of influence amongst the community of nations.

Between 1945 and 1960, the United States was confronted with a colossal predicament. A Cold War had emerged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This war did not involve any direct attacks between the two, instead indirect confrontations. Subsequently, the war took a massive toll on the U.S. An era of high tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union posed a communist threat to America.

The cold war was a conflict of ideals that involved the united states and its allies against the Soviet Union with its satellite states. Each side pushed for there ideals of how to run a country, and tried to use its influence on other countries to push them towards communism and socialism. The cold war started in the 1940’s and ended in the 1990’s lasting through the Vietnam War and other miner conflicts. Some people believe today that we are heading towards a new cold war or are already in it. I do not believe that we are in this new cold war. I think there is not enough evidence to show that we are in this kind of situation. Even though I do not believe it others do and they think they have enough evidence to prove it.

In this paper I will discuss what actions and thoughts added up to cause the cold war. The cold war lasted from September 1, 1945 to about December 25, 1991. That is about forty-five years, which is an extremely long time. The cold war was a global competition basically between two sides, the Free World, which was led by the United States of America, and the Communist World led by the Soviet Union. The struggle took place through indirect military conflict, and direct competition in the areas of economics, diplomacy, culture, space exploration, and political theory. It also involved nuclear stand offs, espionage, and global competition for other nations. The cold war has established the framework for most

War. Humans have thrived from war for as long as we can remember. The United States has been fighting wars ever since we found the new country in North America that we now call the United States. We fought against our selves for the freedom of others. We fought in several world wars. We have always fought. But in the late 1940's “war” changed forever. This was well known as the Cold War. Why was this so different? “ The world had never experienced anything like it. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was a half century of military build-up, political maneuvering for international support (Hanes, Sharon M., and Richard C. Hanes).” This means that the world has always seen war as either hand to hand combat or gun to

What would you do if you found out that the US government released toxic radiation in your neighborhood, or mixed LSD into your drink at the bar? These horrible crimes were committed by the US government, during the Cold War, against their own citizens, without consent. The Cold War was a battle between the two superpowers of the world, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The two powers fought over economics and government, making it a war of ideas and a race for nuclear arms. The US thought that using their own citizens would be the best way to test out the mechanics; even though the experiments cause pain and death to innumerable people. Although the government denies that recompense is necessary, the victims of the US government’s crimes should be compensated because people were manipulated into participating, radiation experiments caused new disease, and the government broke the Nuremberg Code.

The conflict started between the Soviet Union and the United States was because they had completely different ideologies, and both the US and the USSR wanted their own economic and political systems to prevail. The Soviet Union’s ideology was communism. Communism is a society where all property is publically owned by the government and each person works and is paid just for their needs. The Soviets were also totalitarian, because one person had all the power. They opposed a democracy and free enterprise. The United States’ ideology was capitalist democracy, which meant that people were able to own their own land and the people had a say in electing rulers. Therefore, we entered the Cold War, a period of geopolitical tension (Foner 886-887).

The Cold War alludes to a contention among the United States and the Soviet Union; while America supported Democracy/Capitalism and the Soviet Union (USSR) bolstered Communism. This major contrast was the reason for the cause as each of the unions attempted to draw an expansive number of the other world nations towards its political systems. The Cold War occurred simultaneously American civil rights movement and anti-colonial struggle in Africa. However, the United States viewed both as threat to disturb America's endeavours to defeat communist spread. During the cold war, the political strain between America and the USSR generated much of pressure on America to suspend the civil rights movement so as to retain its super power nation image

On the dawn of October 16th 1962 began a 13 day standoff that would be formally known to the western world as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Growing tensions between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) resulted in the closest the world has ever been to all-out nuclear war. This essay will talk about the initial weaponization of nuclear power, the events that led up to the missile crisis, the thirteen days the missile crisis took place and the measures taken to stop nuclear war.

On the home front things began to heat up when protestors of the war started to emerge. One of the groups Woman Strike for Peace (WSP), protested outside the pentagon around the slogan, “Not Our Sons, Not Your Sons, Not Their Sons.” In hopes of bringing light to their husbands, sons, loved ones in the continued war they are currently in. as well as main stream corporations and media advising Johnson to stop the bombings and negotiate. Some who saw the war in ethical terms argued that the US had not business entering the Cold War and wanted not part of it. Well others who have fought in previous war could not see why this generation was refusing to go and serve. They expressed their outraged by putting bumper stickers on their cars. Johnson

- Complex Operations Cold War Do you think the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine should have guided the employment of U.S. forces during the 1990s? What are its strengths and weaknesses? Yes, the Weinberger-Powell Doctrine should have guided the employment of U.S. forces during the 1990s. The Vietnam War in many was was a disaster.

In my opinion ,the US should bear a bigger responsibility for causing the cold war .After the second world war , the ideological difference ,mutual distrust and the disappearance of the common enemy (germany ) , these all are the causes of the cold war .However ,these comflicts were all brought by the US . Many historians believe that the Cold War was inevitable once the common enemy, Germany, was defeated after the end of World War II. Other historians such as John Gaddis stress that neither superpower can be held solely responsible for the ideological war that lasted half a century. These historians believe that the US and the USSR followed a pattern of action and reaction; and that neither nation had a definitive plan of action (Todd,

The Cold War In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. Within a few years, yet, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle—military, political, economic, ideological—to prevail in a new "Cold War. Was it the Soviets, who reneged on their agreements to allow the people of Eastern Europe to determine their own fates by imposing totalitarian rule on territories unlucky enough to fall behind the "Iron Curtain?" Or was it the Americans, who ignored the Soviets' legitimate security concerns, sought to intimidate the world with the atomic bomb, and pushed to expand their own international influence and market dominance? The tensions that would later grow into Cold War became evident as early as 1943, when the "Big Three" allied leaders—American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin—met in Tehran to coordinate strategy. Poland, which sits in an unfortunate position on the map, squeezed between frequent enemies Russia and Germany, became a topic for heated debate. The Poles, then under German occupation, had not one but two governments-in-exile—one Communist, one anticommunist—hoping to take over the country upon its liberation from the Nazis. The Big Three disagreed over which Polish faction should b allowed to take control after the war, with