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During the Cold War the U.S. was considered a very wealthy country and U.S.S.R. lead their citizens to believe they were as well. After the war finally ended in 1991 with the Soviet Union collapsing, millions of people realized just how much the war cost their countries (Solem). Not only were trillions of dollars poured into

At the beginning of the 19th century much of Europe viewed Russia as an undeveloped, backward society. The Russian Empire practiced serfdom—a form of feudalism in which landless peasants were forced to serve the land-owning nobility—well into the nineteenth century. In contrast, the practice had disappeared in most of Western Europe by the end of the Middle Ages. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century. The violent revolution marked

On November 22nd, 1963, President Kennedy began his morning by giving an address in Fort Worth, Texas to the Chamber of Commerce at Hotel Texas. After his address, President Kennedy as well as Vice President Johnson, Texas Governor Connally, and Senator Yarborough board Air Force One, and begin the short flight to Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy is met with many admirers at Love Field in Dallas, and meets many of them before getting in his motorcade for a short parade through downtown Dallas. President

reduce The Soviet Union’s influence on eastern countries. The leading force of the Eastern bloc, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) answered to the United States’ doctrine with the Zhdanov doctrine which divided the world between “the imperialists”, the United States and “the socialists”, the Soviet Union. Communism was the ideology in the U.S.S.R. and its allied countries. Defeated after the end of the Second World War, Germany was split in four occupation zones as it was discussed

The Cold War era (1945-1989) was conflicted with the dominance of, overall, the two superpowers, the U.S.S.R and the U.S, with political and social ideology taking centre stage. Australia's involvement during this time, was paramount and reinstated its long term allegiance with the United States when entering South Vietnam. After WWII had finished, the Soviet Union showed aggression towards the U.S as the competition for world superiority began, and led to the capitalist/democratic nations particularly

then president of the United-States of America, was brutally shot when while in Dallas for a visit. Indeed, during the cold war, there were two principal enemies: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) and the United States of America (U.S.A). The U.S.A were capitalists while the U.S.S.R were communists. Both believed that their ideology was the best and they wanted to be the most powerful country in the world. However, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the only enemy from

competition was heavy between the United Sates and the U.S.S.R Eventually the U.S. won this race, but imagine for a second how different life would have been if this super power had been defeated. If the Soviet Union had won the space race, tensions would have increased between America and the USSR, America would have spent more money in air and space to recover from the loss, and American pride would have been hurt. On October 4, 1957 the U.S.S.R launched Sputnik I

astronauts in the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The United States of America and the Soviet Union competed to be the first ones to explore space. All of the hostilities were thanks to the Cold War a war of words and ideas between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. that lasted from 1948-1991. In this essay, I will write about one of the events in the Cold War – The Space Race: how it started, how people reacted, and who won the long lasting competition. The space

gaining their trust in democracy. The effects of the Berlin Airlift on the United States helped them gain the trust of the American people. During 1949 the United States successfully contained the spread of communism only in Berlin which led to the U.S.S.R. lifting the ground blockade into East Berlin. The U.S. goals of containment were achieved without breaking the values. The United States still kept and stayed on track with its values of freedom and democracy. On the other hand, in Iran, the United