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    The “Cold War” was a unique time period were paranoia ran high and the world was at a stalemate as it watch the competition between the two world superpowers,(U.S. and the U.S.S.R.). In the United States the main concern of the government was maintain the loyalty of their citizens. This was made even more evident by the second red scare that happened post WWII. The reason behind this scare was that information was leaked that there was espionage going on in the US and this caused Americans to fear

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    Introduction The Cold War was a geological, ideological, political, and economic struggle between the USA and the Soviet Union, which where the two superpowers of the world following the end of world war 2. The Cold War had begun following the end of World War 2. The Cold War had conflicts that ranged from the worlds largest cities, to Vietnam. Essentially the Cold War was a struggle between the two political ideologies, Democracy and Communism. Once world war 2 had come to an end, the two superpowers

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    were in a cold war. A cold war is defined a state on political hostility that never progresses past threats, propaganda, or any other acts of antagonism short of open violence. The change in American foreign policy was the main catalyst in starting the Cold War, however with conflicting ideology and the control of Eastern Europe post WWII being the precursors they played a large role in creating tension and mistrust between the soviets and the americans. From the very start, the cold war was bound

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    The Cold War was an ideologically defensive battle that saw the invisible hand of the American capitalist structure in a fight against the state fist of a Soviet communist regime. The United States and the Soviet Union were the two superpowers of the post-World War II era: each had their own ideological mission (capitalist democracy versus communism), its network of alliances and third world clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. Europe was divided, with massive military forces of the

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    The structure of world politics during the cold war (1945-1989), was determined by the strategic and ideological competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union. During this time, there was a varying degree of tension between these two superpowers (ref). This essay will be describing various meaning of the word ‘’détente, its achievements and limitations, how it was performed by different countries and finally reasons why it’s failed and why the failure was inevitable. Détente is from a French

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    The cold war During WWII the Soviet Union and the United States were allies but after the war the communist Soviets and the democratic Americans became enemies. Each side attempted to be the world’s top super power. The two nations sought dominating space, in military power and in the allied countries they could lead. Their conflict is known as the cold war 1945-1941. After WWII, Europe was left in ruins, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin both shared the same goal to rebuild Europe, but they different

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    The Cold War period represented a breaking point for real and potential threats against the US hegemony in Latin America. The US and the Soviet Union had a power struggle for almost all the last half of the twentieth century, and even if the political and military tension was between those two blocks, the poor relationship’s collateral damage reached the rest of countries in the American continent with the anti-communism US foreign policy. From Eisenhower to Reagan, US administrations aimed to maintain

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    The cold war was a tension between political and military forces.The war was after World War II.There were very many different events that went on and most of them involving communism and government problems.Communism is where everything is shared and owned by the government and this had problems because people living in the communist government didn’t want to share everything so the people began to rebel against communism which led to many different things which we call the cold war. After obtaining

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    The Cold War began during World War Two when Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of the U.S.S.R, which Joseph Stalin reacted with the desire to crush Germany and eventually to resist against anyone who was opposed to communism. After Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945, in order to insure Germany would not come to power again, Germany and Berlin were divided among the four major powers of the Allies: France, Britain, America, and the U.S.S.R. Unlike Russia, who planned to destroy Germany so they could

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    The War Of The Cold War

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    Cold War The Cold War, which is often dated from 1945 to 1989, was a constant state of political and military tension between powers in the West, dominated by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the East, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. The development of Nuclear Weapons and long range shooting missiles by the United States gave a lot of fear and caused mass destruction. The Cold War came about after World War II when America used their atomic bombs

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