Transition To The Cold War Model

The cold war started in 1945 and ended in 1989. It was a war between the United States and the Soviet Union. This war took place right after WWII and it is called the cold war because there were no real battles such as with tanks and bombs.

The United States after the cold war was (“an era that ended when the Soviet Union collapsed on Dec. 31, 1991”.) The confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union defined the Cold War period. (The collapse of Europe framed that confrontation). After World War II, the Soviet and American armies kept Europe busy. The post cold war had two phases that happen two years apart. The first one was from Dec 31, 1991. The second phrase lasted until September 11, 2001 (9/11) and until now. The initial phase of the post-Cold War world was built on two assumptions. (“The first assumption was that the United States was the dominant political and military power but that such power was less significant than before, since economics was the new focus. The second phase still revolved around the three Great Powers — the United States, China and Europe — but involved a major shift in the worldview of the United States, which then assumed that pre-eminence included the power to reshape the Islamic world through military action while China and Europe single-mindedly focused on economic matters.”) After the Cold War, the United States was withdrawing from Afghanistan and having a second thought on the relationship between global preminence and global omnipotence. Things that happen in 1991 will never be the same again. The Gulf War was an international conflict that was caused by Iraq’s invasion by Kuwait on Aug 2, 1990. A response from the U.S was that the United States and its

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.

Europe after the capitulation of Nazi Germany and the subsequent Allied victory in World War II was in ruins from years of fighting and bombing. Cities and infrastructure lay flattened and shortages of vital consumer products of food and fuel persisted across Europe. The economic situation of Europe was also in tatters; many countries suffered from severe inflation, debt, trade deficits, and depleted gold supplies. The United States having remained virtually untouched by the destruction had emerged from World War II stronger than ever before both an industrial economic, and military powerhouse. The Soviet Union though also suffering from the wounds of the war began to establish pro-Soviet communist governments in the Eastern European countries

The Cold War was a direct result of the feud between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. Due to this feud both countries made alliances, Canada went with the United States as well as many other countries and together formed NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Following the influence and model of the United States’ social structure and capitalist economy, as well as the constant threat of nuclear warfare and communism, a new social structure was created within Canada. The Cold War created new identities and lifestyles for all Canadian citizens. This was done to eliminate communism, increase patriotism and as a way for Canadian citizens to work together to combat nuclear threats. Communism was a constant threat in Canada and was to be eliminated if not at least controlled at all costs. This meant that everyone had to act according to the new social structure, or risk suspicion of being a Soviet spy. This new social structure resembled harsh sexist stereotypes where the men are the breadwinners and the women are the homemakers. This type of relationship was called the nuclear family. This paper is going to look at the social roles that the Cold War created because of the threat of communism, nuclear warfare, governmental influence and social influence within Canada for men, women and children.

John Gaddis is a professor at the University of Yale. Gaddis field of interest are the “U.S Cold War history; Historical methodology; Biography; Grand Strategy (Yale University." John Gaddis. http://history.yale.edu/people/john-gaddis). Since his field of interest is in the U.S Cold War history, he wrote a book about it by the name of The Cold War A New History. Gaddis’s book is written for his undergraduate Yale students that he lectures to every Monday and Wednesday afternoon. His real purpose in this book is to make his Yale undergraduates understand what the Cold War was since “hardly any of them remember any of the events I’m (he is) describing”(preface).

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The Cold War, lasting from 1945 to 1991, was a period of time where the United States undertook a numerous amount of social, physical, and domestic changes. As the nations economy prospered due to the war, the citizens grew more comfortable with certain social modifications. In other words, the American state of mind changed which left the country vulnerable to various changes in domesticity. As the country furthered from the likelihood of economic depression, birth rates increased as well as marriages, the voice of the younger generations were finally heard, a counterculture blossomed, and citizens began leaving city slumps for suburbs. Following the Cold War, newly established domestic changes such as the uprise of suburbs, the Baby

Since terrorist attacks have been on the rise while taking dynamic and extreme turns, different countries of the world have created

The tension between the Soviet Union and the United States escalated with the end of World War II in the summer of 1945. The Soviet Union and the United States, having been on the Allies fighting against the Axis, were both victorious world superpowers at the end of WWII. With conflicting government systems (on one side socialism and on the other democracy) however, these two nations would fight a cold war for the next few decades in hope of making their rule secure. This would shape America’s foreign and domestic policy for the next few decades and define the Cold War presidents. The Cold War presidents, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Henry Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, each altered domestic and foreign affairs including civil rights, containment policies, and welfare reforms. Harry S. Truman, the first president of the Cold War, succeed President Franklin Roosevelt and began forming various foreign policies in order to cope with the increasing bitter relations between the two nations. Every president after Truman until George H. W. Bush formed unique or built upon previous foreign policies during the Cold War. After analyzing all nine presidents’ achievements and failures, they have been ranked in order from most successful to least successful as Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Ford.

The Cold War was an era in which nuclear power was just beginning to be used to its full potential. It was still a fresh, new idea that mankind had not yet learned how to completely harness. Due to that, there were many mistakes made that were detrimental to the environment and humans themselves. One such situation in which that occurred was in Greifswald, East Germany. A nuclear power plant was built in Greifswald to power the surrounding area. It provided East Germany with ten percent of its power. That power plant had many problematic occurrences. Greifswald, East Germany was changed in the events that took place while the nuclear power plant was operational due to the chemicals used and what happened as a result of the disasters.

The end of the Cold War impacted many changes in U.S. and Department of Defense (DoD) policies, but it had almost no impact on Army intelligence interrogations. Army interrogators conducted intelligence interrogations in force on force conflicts because interrogations were a wartime task. The applicable policies and regulations for conventional warfare interrogations were still valid thus requiring minimal to no changes for Army doctrinal and national policies after the Cold War. The Geneva Conventions outlined the treatment of people in conflicts that ranged from protected persons to enemy prisoners of war. Army doctrine on interrogations and law of land and war were written in a way that complies with the Genevan Conventions and other

After the Cold War, not only was the Soviet Union facing many changes in the foreign and domestic policies but America was as well. The effects of the Cold War had a long lasting effect on American politics. About the same time as the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement took place, which changed America more than any other social movement in history. The connections between the two are often swept under the rug but this remains to be a very vital connection in the change in America’s foreign and domestic policy. In order for America to win the Cold War, civil rights were a necessity. Continuance of discrimination in America against minorities would make it nearly unmanageable to win over the newly freed third world. There were many ways that foreign and domestic policy reformed in the United States government but I

Terrorism was a new threat unlike the United States had ever experienced. Hundreds of terrorist groups banded together with the common goal of destroying America which was a feat that previously had never been accomplished to that scale. Significant organizations such

The Cold War is over, but the Soviet Union is not. In 1917, Czar Nicholas Ⅱ was killed and Vladimir Lenin replaced him. He was inspired by a philosopher named Karl Marx. Karl Marx believed that a nation had to go through three political stages. The stages were capitalism, socialism, and communism. After the Civil War, Lenin’s Bolshevik Party began to make Russia into a communist country, which formed the Soviet Union in 1922. The Soviet Union lasted until 1991. For this reason, there's several things about the Soviet Union that textbooks should emphasize. These three are the most important: its society and economy, its political repression, and its military strength.