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    the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and the USA(United States of America).Cold War had no direct military actions between the countries. Competing perspectives and human decisions led to violent conflicts throughout the 20th century. By analyzing different perspectives for the countries that are blamed for starting Cold War and the ideologies that were imposed in the other countries. Two different political systems led to further conflicts of the Cold War. The Soviet Union during the Cold

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    I know that a hardline approach has been your approach to dealing with the Soviet Union and instability abroad while I commend you for attempting to establish your own foreign policy separate from Roosevelt’s, I believe you need to shift focus away from establishing U.S. power abroad and focus on creating the conditions that will support long-term global stability. We are at a crossroads where two powers with competing ideologies have risen to survive the test of war, and if we do not tread carefully

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    Topic 1: Evaluate the extent to which the Soviet Union was successful in transforming the traditional tribal and clan identities in the Central Asian Republics? Introduction Central Asia, also known the middle Asia is the core region of Asian continent, which stretches from the Caspian Sea in the east to China in the West and from the South to the Afghanistan and Russia in the North (Collins, 2002). The Soviet Union was a socialist state in that existed between 1922 and 1991, in Eurasia. The union

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    Cold War Dbq Essay

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    September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. The United States did not enter the war until after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on December 7, 1941. After World War II, the relationship that developed between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic was called the Cold War; the ends of World War II lead to the start of the Cold War. They each thought their system

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    To what extent was the development of the post-Stalin thaw in superpower relations between 1953 and 1962 the result of Khrushchev’s policy of ‘Peaceful Coexistence’? The post Stalin thaw, which occurred in the period between 1953 and 62’, refers to the more conciliatory approach employed by both the USSR and the USA which resulted in greater toleration and a less ‘hard line’ foreign policy. The thaw was perhaps a direct result of Stalin's death as both sides saw an opportunity to ease tensions between

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    Every war tremendously affects the lifestyle and the economic state of the country. World War II affected almost every country in Europe, the United States, Japan, China, etc., but the country that had the most damage was the Soviet Union. A Russian Professor Alexey Shumkov brings the following facts in his research article, "During the war years of 1941-1945, the Soviet Union lost almost 27 million people (Russia alone lost around 14 million) and millions more were disabled". Moreover, the war destroyed

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    2 in 1945. The relationship during the war between the Soviet Union and the United States was focused on ending Adolf Hitler’s reign of terror and the Nazi Party once and for all. However, suspicion and lack of trust defined their relations in the years to follow as both the US and USSR had competing ideologies and visions of the future which prevented

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    1945. The occupants of the meeting were President Franklin D. Roosevelt representing the United States, Joseph Stalin representing the Soviet Union, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill representing Great Britain. There were four major issues that would dominate the conference, and ultimately decide the fate of the world post-war. The Yalta Conference’s primary objective was to frame a post-war world that would

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    occurred after the collapse of the Soviet Union showed us that the dissolution of the Soviets was unexpected. The international society was not ready for peace and Fukuyama’s optimistic assumptions were far from becoming real. Moreover, the international society currently started to realise that the tension and the potential of mass destructive war during the Cold War era had provided a

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    Cold War Research Paper

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    revisionist and post-revisionist theories. Each theory demonstrates a different viewpoint as to how a variety of political, economic and militaristic factors instigated the Cold War The Cold War was the political, social, economic and militaristic struggle between communism and capitalist participated in primarily by the communist Soviet Union and the capitalist USA and their respective allies from approximately 1947

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