Essays on Cold War

Détente

Conflicts in ideologies defined the Western democracies and the Communist powers in the 1960s and 1970s. It resulted in a nuclear arms battle between the US and the Soviet Union. Consequently, the leaders of either nation embraced dangerous policies that posed threats to the security of the two states, as well as the whole world. Détente brought changes in policy on both states thus redefining the US-Russia relationship (Duiker and Spielvogel, 2014).

In 1964, Leonid Brezhnev came into power in the Soviet Union after the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power. Working with Alexei Kosygin, ...

- How does Burke's inclusion of the NORAD site 'date' the series to the late Cold War?

The inclusion of NORAD site remarkably contributes to the understanding of the late Cold War. It is dates world war in the 1960s and 1970s when USSR focused on establishing intercontinental and sea-launched flying missiles.NORAD was in full control of all the operations that were launched during this time. NORAD was managed all the air planed missiles space operations. The site reveals more on the plans and operations that were launched to accomplish the Cold War missions by the USSR.

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The 1980s were a challenging time for the Soviet Union. Industrial stagnation, inefficient economy, low quality and deficit of the consumer goods undermined ideological pressure of the Communist Party, already entered into a deep crisis. The conflict between economic and technological growth needs and the current administrative-command management system was exacerbated. The country leaders have made ​​decisions aimed at overcoming the dictates of departmental bureaucracy, at developing economic methods of management. However, these solutions remained on paper. The USSR were in need of structural political and economic reforms.

Politburo (Executive Committee) members leading the regime for many years were approaching a ...

National Reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis

This paper seeks to outline sources that review the Cuban Missile Crisis. The sources give a background and reasons that stirred a national reaction during the cold war. The Americans had made an attempt under President John Fitzgerald’s administration to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro. This led to a bad blood between the two countries. Cubans did not understand the reason of the attack at Bay of Pigs. The American had their naval base at Guantanamo bay in Cuba and had always had a good relationship with Cubans. Following the attack, the Cuban government sought for protection from its ally the Soviet ...

“Nuclear weapons made the world a safer place during the Cold War.”

The answer to the above phrase is Yes and No. Yes because although most of the antagonist conventional forces in the European region had numerical superiority they could not attack countries that had nuclear weapons. Due to the destructive aspect of nuclear weapons, states that did not have such weapons did not want to provoke countries that had nuclear weapons for fear of possible reprisal involving nuclear weapons. Accordingly, countries that possessed nuclear weapons refrained from triggering conventional military engagements with other countries that had nuclear weapons because they feared that such hostilities could escalate to a nuclear level. As ...

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PEACEKEEPING

Bellamy, Alex, and Paul Williams. 2010. Understanding Peacekeeping. Cambridge: Polity.

This secondary source is written by Bellamy and Williams highlights the history and nature of peacekeeping operations since the establishment of the United Nations in 1945 up to the 21st century. The book is well-documented in the extent that it also includes the types of peace operations and the challenges peacekeepers today face regarding its operations.

Christoff, Joseph. 2007. Peacekeeping: Observations on Costs, Strengths, and Limitations of U.S. and UN Operations. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Accountability Office.

This report or testimony of the US Director of International Affairs ...

Question Number One

The realist international relations theory stipulates that a competitive self-interest is the main driving force of world politics. The theory is based on premises that the international political system is anarchic. States are the most important players in world politics and they tend to seek self-interest and survival is the major concern of all states. It has been theorized that “nations dwell in perpetual anarchy for no central authority imposes limits on the pursuit of sovereign interests” (Oye, 1). Anarchy stems from the fact that there is no common or central government in world politics (Axelrod and Keohane, 226). ...

America is a vast continent with a number of events that mark its history. In seeking to understand this continent, there are those major events that an individual has to understand in depth. These include the war and other notable events worth noting. While America is synonymous with world class power, its history is characterized by both positive and negative events, which take landmark positions in its timeline. This situation being the case, and war is among the primary events, albeit negative, on which the history of America stands. This paper endeavors to explain and illustrate why and how to understand ...

The political concept of realism dates back to the 17th century and is associated with historic figures such as Hobbes and Machiavelli. Its main premise is the international community is always in a state of anarchy because each nation determinedly pursues things for its self-interest, whether it be for financial, political or social resources. Idealism is the complete opposite of realism. A political idealist would focus more on the individual and an international politics, would view the world as composed of many different groups, organizations and people that can all come together through cooperation and mutual respect. Woodrow Wilson and ...

Why did the Cold War start and how did it develop over its first three decades?

In 1945, the Cold War started after the World War II or WWII. The cold war as a state of extremely political hostility among countries known as a Propaganda War and the cold war were between Russia and some of the Western countries. The nuclear weapon existence led to the development of the Cold War.

How did different presidential administrations, from Truman to Nixon handle Cold War affairs?

There were different ways of the presidential administrations approaches from Truman to Nixon. They handled the Cold War differently with different pursuance of policy containment, and the mentality approaches to Communism differs.

How did these approaches affect foreign policy?

Since the beginning of the Cold War, the battle against Communism made a huge impact ...

The cold war between US and USSR ended in 1991 after the disintegration of USSR. The world changed from a bipolar world to a unipolar world, and US became the only super power. Disintegration of Russia has given birth to several independent Central Asian States, still under the Russian influence but has the possibility of turning sides towards US. During the cold war, it was only the danger of mutually assured destruction through nuclear war between the two superpowers, however, the world today is perhaps a much lesser safe place due to the danger of nuclear proliferation, fear of total destruction through ...

- Fall of the Berlin Wall. This event was of enormous importance in the fall of the Soviet Union. It was a sudden and entirely unexpected event that showed the world how badly Germany wanted reunification and how quickly that could be achieved. The wall fell on November 9th, 1989; the country was officially reunified on October 3rd, 1990, less than a year later.

- The Solidarity movement. The Solidarity movement started in Gdansk, Poland, in 1980. Led by Lech Walesa, the Solidarity trade union would eventually have more than 1/3rd of the country’s workers as members. The Solidarity members ...

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The Cuban missile crisis was a major test for Western civilization in the 1960s because it was the time when the world faced the possibility of nuclear war. The Soviets were determined to establish their power and influence in the western hemisphere because they could easily attack the United States since this was the heights of the Cold War. Both the U.S and the Soviet Union believed that their actions were civilized, and so it was difficult for either of them to change their course. The United States believed that it had to protect and preserve Christian democratic ideals, while ...

According to the first respondent, Cold War was the persisting state of dispute, confusions and threats. It took place between the end of World War two in the year 1945 and the beginning of fall of Berlin Wall in the year 1989. It involved the Soviet Union, the United States and their respective alliance. Several nations joined together to fight their common enemy. It majorly involved the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets, threatening, communism, propagandas, and competition in technology and space races. Technology competition was based on developing massive conventional and nuclear arms (James, ...

Lasting from 1946 until 1991, the Cold War was the longest of the 20th century s many wars and in many ways the most complicated. The last four links above document aspects of the initial phase the drawing of lines in the sand, so to speak and allow us to see something of the atmosphere of the immediate postwar years. In early 1946 George Kennan wrote a close analysis of Soviet aims and methods of achieving those aims and proposed a multi-phased strategy for the United States. 

The timeline in the first link above provides headings and a list of significant events. ...

The Cold War was an ongoing state of political disagreement, military nervousness, and financial competition continued after WWII .The Cold War extended from Europe and become an international ideological divergence between democracy and communalism.

At the time, Germany had already stopped its strategy of total power. All the western powers had a combined effort with the Eastern powers. England was overwhelmed while France had been plainly scorched to the ground, and lots of small country had experienced financial failure. East Russia was also undergoing lots of losses from the ineffective blockade of the Nazi's but they were better off ...

What challenges, if any, did colonialism and the cold war pose to the United Nations at its inception in 1945? Use specific examples to illustrate your answer. The world has gone through two serious world wars. The negative effects of first and second world, wars are still eminent. Most of the countries that actively took part in the second world wars lost their economic superiority due to repeated bomb attacks. The Allied victory against the axis brought the eagerly awaited peace. The allied forces convened several meetings that came up with the United Nations organisation. The frictions between ...

After the end of the World War II, tensions developed between the two biggest nations of the world. The United States and the Soviet Union was involved in the most intense rivalry ever documented. This rivalry between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. would continue for the next twenty years after this war. The war was based on suspicions, sharp tensions and several global events that almost brought these two superpowers to war. These global events included the Cuban Missile Crisis, Hungary, Vietnam wars, and the Berlin Wall among others. The whole world was in fear as they could not imagine ...

Countries have always relied on each other for help. At least all countries, at one point in time, in their history, have received foreign aid from another country or an International Financial organization. Foreign aid policies, overtime have had received much criticism and applause in equal measures. It will be discussed in detail, in this discourse, with a focus on the effect of foreign aid in Liberia. Since the period after the Second World War, foreign aid has become a factor that has informed most developed countries foreign policies. The postwar period was an important time in the development of ...

The Environmental Problem: Uranium Mining in the Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation is a semi-autonomous nation under the jurisdiction and control of the United States’ Federal Government. It lies on the northeastern portion of Arizona; southeastern, South Eastern part of Utah, and northwestern part of New Mexico. Among all semi-autonomous nations under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Federal Government, the Navajo Nation remains to be the largest in terms of land mass and area. Due to the complex landscape of the Navajo Nation, a lot of potential economically relevant sites, both for tourism, mining, and even agricultural purposes have been identified. Natural sights such as the Ship Rock in San ...

Introduction

The term "Cold War" was introduced by Winston Churchill during his speech at Fulton (USA) on March 5, 1946. In his speech, he mentioned that Europe was divided with the "Iron Curtain" and called the Western civilization to declare war against communism. In fact, the war between the two political and economic systems, two ideologies had been in a latent stage since 1917, however, it transformed into a confrontation though not open, just after the World War II. The reasons of it are reasonable if to take into account that even Hitler himself was confident of a huge controversy between East and ...

The Cold war period can be described as the duration during there was political and military tension between USA and the Soviet Union. The war was between the Eastern bloc and the Western Bloc. The Eastern bloc primarily consisted of the Soviet Union, which included countries like Russia. The Western bloc, on the other hand, comprised of The United States of America and the National Alliance Treaty Organization (NATO). There are twenty-eight NATO member states, which include France, Italy, Canada, Germany, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Portugal and Spain, just to mention a few(Kerkendall, 2010, p. 34). It is ...

American Foreign Policy on the Cold War and Modern Russia

History has long portrayed the United States and Russian Federation (or the former Soviet Union) as bitter rivals since the time of the Great Wars and the onset of the Cold War. Both became the leader of the West and the East as the world’s superpowers in the Cold War, with one becoming the de-facto leader of the international community and the other becoming a silent entity in the European region. For years, both countries remained in conflict in several aspects within the international arena and in the side of the United States, their foreign policy had indicated some ...

The legacy of the cold war and the struggle between the USSR, and the United States continues to flourish in large portions in developing countries. The two world powers had different ideologies, and were in a battle for supremacy. The Cold War pitted an American led alliance against the Soviet Union that divided the economical and political world into two major blocs. The cold war involved a contest of ideologies that intensified after the two great powers, America and the Soviet Union started competing for friendship from dozens of new sovereign states that had previously been colonial powers. The super powers ...

Policy of Containment

In the United States of America, the term ‘containment’ referred to a policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism in other countries. This policy was essentially a response move against the Soviet Union trying to spread communist philosophies in China, Eastern Europe, Korea, Vietnam, and Africa. It was a mid-ground policy between rollback and appeasement. The doctrine of ‘containment’ was conceptualized in 1946, by George. F. Kennan, a U.S. diplomat. The word first appeared 1947, in a report with a description of U.S.A.’s foreign policy, submitted by Kennan to the Defense Secretary. This report was also used in a magazine article later. ...

Security has and continues to remain as one of the primary concerns that should be addressed by various nations. Precisely, lack of security in any given state injures progress on various matters. Evidently, terrorism and nuclear war occurs as the major issues that have and continue to threaten the security of various nations. Nevertheless, living under the threat of nuclear war would more intimidating than living under the threat of terrorism. This is because nuclear war poses more dangers than terrorism. To be precise, nuclear war entail the use of nuclear weapons whose effects are felt over time. Precisely, ...

The Cold War is a phenomenon in international relations, a tense period of confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that took place since the end of the World War II till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Its prehistory, according to some historians, dates back to the very beginning of the 20th century, when the Russian revolution led to the Bolsheviks overtaking the power in the former tsarist Russian Empire and promoting similar revolutions all over the world with the aim of creating a society, which would be an alternative to capitalism, the ruling ideology in the ...

The Cold War One of the significant events that occurred in the 20th century is the Cold War. This “war” was the state of military and political tension after World War II between the powers of the Western world (the Allies) and the allies of the Eastern bloc (led by the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). The Cold War could be said to have lasted between 1947 and 1991. This event is noteworthy because it described the polarization of the superpowers of the world, and the consequential alliances that followed. In fact, the Cold War is important because ...

The cold war is referred to as the period of military and political tension that occurred between the year 1947 – 1991 between the Eastern bloc comprising of the U.S and its allies and the Western block comprising of Soviet Union and its allies immediately after World War II. The Eastern bloc comprised of the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact while the Western bloc comprised of the United States of America and its allies in NATO. The U.S and the Soviet Union did not engage in actual fighting; they antagonized each other through military coalitions, arms ...

The Cold War was a global confrontation between the two military and political blocs led by the Soviet Union and the United States, which did not come down to an open military conflict. The concept of the "cold war" appeared in journalism in 1945-1947 and gradually stuck in the political dictionary. After the Second World War, the world was actually divided into the spheres of influence of two blocks with different social systems. The Soviet Union and the United States have sought to expand their spheres of influence. But the rough equality of forces between the blocks, and then ...

The years between 1945 and 1963 saw some of the world’s superpowers engage in what Historians have since termed the Cold War. As the strategies revolved around threats of using nuclear power and sabotaging societies, the feuding countries never took up arms. Thus emerges the term "cold" depicting the aforementioned sabotage attempts and threats to wipe each other out. The key players in the cold war include the United States of America and the Soviet Union. However, allies of the countries engaged in actual war, a good illustration being North and South Vietnam, the proprietors of the Vietnam War. ...

Cold war is defined as an extreme pressure between USA and its allies and Soviet Union and its associates after the World War II and departure of the Soviet Union. United States used containment policy to stop the spread of communism overseas. This policy was a reaction to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to expand its community influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam. The House of Un-American Activity Committee was monitoring the community to ensure there were no such things as being unpatriotic during Cold War. Vietnam War was between the years 1955-1975. In 1959, ...

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The Cold war which was a term coined by Walter Lippman lasted from 1947 to 1991. After the World War II, the world was divided into two: the ‘liberated’ West and the socialist East. The two world powers headed by the United States of America and the USSR used media, literature, and entertainment to antagonize each other. It was a psychological warfare that aimed at winning the hearts and minds of people. Lippman coined the term cold war because of the lack of direct military war between the two powers. In the propaganda warfare, it distorted information gathered in the ...

The movie “Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara”, is a documentary expressed through the viewpoint of U.S Secretary of Defense, Robert S. McNamara, who worked during Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. In the movie, McNamara describes the reasons for the Vietnam War, Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crises. Regarding the cold war, the movie expresses the domino theory, which explains that if a state in a country is ruled by communism, then the neighboring countries follow the domino effect. Throughout the movie, it is understandable that war occurs because of a conflict between two groups due to ...

American Life after the Cold War

American family life before and during the Cold War, as well as the changes commenced by the baby boomers have all been the subjects of numerous studies. One of the major acclaimed contributors in this regard is Elaine Tyler May, whose book Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era first published in 1988 contains a detailed analysis of the American family life, perception of gender roles and equality, as well as the results of the Kelly Longitudinal Study (KLS) that gradually reveal the realities of the nuclear families inside life. The central idea of the book is confinement ...

A number of writers have contributed a lot of contextual studies to the subject or literature of American family life and cold war era. One of the major contributors in this regard who has also been widely acclaimed is Elaine Tyler May. The aim of this paper is to critically assess the book entitled, “Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era” written by Elaine Tyler May. The aspects that would be focused in the paper include the assertions made by the author in order to illustrate the story of American life in the post-war period. The manner in ...

World War one left a completely battered and bitter world filled with cynicism due to a number of reasons. These reasons have a competence of ongoing issues with the modern world and can be seen as an act of violence that is condemned internationally, even by states who sponsored it and by states that weren’t even involved at all. The World War one, as we know it, gave way to a whole new era of cynicism because there was way too much distrust among people of different races and cultures. No one could actually look at one another without realizing that ...

It is important to observe the times when allegations of witchcraft happened to understand the stories of the Salem witch trials. In January of year 1692 in Salem Village, Reverend Samuel Parris’ daughter and niece became ill. When they did not get well, William Griggs, who is the village doctor, was called. Griggs’ findings of bewitchment caused the power that would eventually become grounds for death punishment by hanging of nineteen women and men. Aside from that, a man was then crushed to death, and seven other men died while in prison, and the lives of many people were ...

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Abstract This essay broadly narrates the incidents post World War 2 leading up to the Cold War, how United States of America responded to the events of Cold War and the domestic developments in the United States of America during Cold War years. Post the Second World War; the cold war in the following decades can be summarized as the fight between democratic forces of the United States of America and the communist forces of Russia to establish Global supremacy in all spheres of life including governance, military and technology. On the February 4th, 1945 with ...

[Subject/Course] [Submission Date] United States of America and USSR had distinctive interests in Europe after the World War II for maintaining their power and securing their economies. Nonetheless, both the powers intended to cause harm to each other’s ideology. According to the Soviet Union, it was impossible to avoid conflict between communism and capitalism. On the other hand, United States of America firmly believed faith that peace can only be achieved with the end of communism and enhancement of diplomatic relations (Mason 71). The United States government took advantage of the clash between China and Russia ...

A. Poland and the Cold War

Soviet troops occupied Poland at the end of World War II. Future elections in Poland were one of the subjects at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Josef Stalin was not enthusiastic about the prospect of free elections in Poland. Because of the violence committed by the Soviets against the Polish people during the war, there was a great deal of animosity between Russians and Poles. Stalin assumed that if Poles had their choice in free elections, they would not be voting in favor of the current communist administration in the Soviet Union. Poland and the Soviet Union had been at ...

- Some argue that NATO is not just a military alliance, but also a political organization. To what extent is this valid argument? NATO is perhaps one of the most continuing and complex political and military organization on the global field in the modern times. All over the six decades of existence, it has been thoroughly evaluated, studied, analyzed and commented upon, however many theorists are still determining its operations. Both these scenarios justified the establishment of NATO that could deal effectively with the Soviet threat as well as the USA’s dominance of the region. The European countries ...

Despite the success of the alliance between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States in bringing victory in the Second World War, the cooperation during wartime implied glossing over several differences between the two countries. The soviet leaders had been complaining about the coexistence between capitalism and communism following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 (Jones, Trevelyn, Luann, Marlene, Daryl, Jeanne, & Mary, p. 172). There are several factors that combined to result into the emergence of the Cold War between the 1940s and 1990. During the 1940s, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the ...

Abstract

This paper is on the topic of origins of the Cold War between The United States and The UUSR. The first section of this paper will discuss the origins of the Cold War. The second section of this paper will discuss who started the Cold War and the important events, individuals and ideas that shaped the development of the Cold War. The third section of this paper will discuss the influence of parties to share American policy towards the conflict. The final section of this paper will discuss if the cold war was fought at home or abroad.

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The concept of human rights is an attractive contribution of Western civilizations. The idea was developed by enlightened philosophers and implemented by America on a grand scale and has generated broader support worldwide. After the Second World War, the start of the cold war did jeopardize the emergence of United Nations human rights regime. Both the super powers had veto power, and did not allow the human right regime of United Nations to prosper. Since 1990s, people from around the world has increased their demand of paying more attention to the human rights. The appeal of the idea is continuously ...

After 36 years of existence, the Warsaw pact ended in 1991. It was formed in response to the decision by the United States, Canada, and other European nations to rearm West Germany in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. However, by the late 1980’s the soviet and anticommunist movements in Eastern Europe began to crack the Warsaw pact (History 2014). The Warsaw pact collapse was initiated by some series of events that led to its demise finally in 1991. Poland played a role in ending the Warsaw pact. Brown (70) argues that the dwindling economic condition of the nation ...

Plan of the Investigation

Sports play a vital role in the society, especially in uniting people. They have been used in various occasions has one of the strategies of bringing peace in war-affected regions. Historically, sports, and especially the Olympics, are known to be politics-free events. However, the 1980 Olympics in Moscow became pledge in the continued Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States (Bloodworth, 176). About one and a half years before the Olympics Games, the Soviet Union sent its army into Afghanistan, something that contributed to the escalation of the Cold War between the superpowers which had already lasted about ...

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Causes of the Cold War (1947-1953)

Unlike the other forms of warfare, a cold war finds its basis in the acts of sabotaging societal set ups of a country’s enemy. There is no clear definition of the Cold War but in “The Cold War: Conflicts in Europe and Asia” Philips (2001) states that the, “The Cold War is the term given to the period of poor relations between East and west” (p.159).With regard to this, the Cold War found basis in the emerging enmity between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. Consequently, the effects of the cold war were felt ...

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Introduction

The state of Germany, as well as its educational system, was in complete shambles following the World War II. There was a clear division as the Cold War proceeded to divide the entire country into two strongly opposing blocs on the basis of ideology and physical strength . Germany was cleanly divided for a period of forty years (1949 – 1989) into a democratic country with a capitalist economy in the West and communist economic system in the East . A unique chapter in world history began as the two sections of the same nation varied extensively and this was strongly reinforced ...

After the cold war realist, scholars did research to figure out what would be the future of the war torn central and Eastern Europe. They did not see much in terms of a prospective future. They predicted that this side of Europe would be plagued with war due to its proximity with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of these scholars predicted that there would be rise of new political powers and nuclear weapons would get into East and Central Europe through its porous borders. Realisms dictated that war would repeat itself as long as political regimes kept on ...

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The cold War Relations between the USA and the USSR were always defined by many complicated interwoven political and economic factors, and the relationship which was a cautious cooperation during the World War II transformed into a superpower rivalry after the war. The basic distinction that existed in the political systems of the countries created an environment, which did not aid in mutual understanding and for a period of almost four decades there was a high military tension between the two nations. This sustained tension between the two countries and their allies and the ensuing political scenario, was commonly denoted by the ...

The historical evolution path that led to the development of computers had a strong bearing in determining and explaining the strategy that America employed in its military during the period of cold war and largely serves as mythological representation of our perceptions of the future. The mainframe computers are icons that brought America into what we know of it today (super-power).Edwards in his book, ‘The closed World’, tries to develop an argument that computers played an important practical role in the cold war defense and also served to provide support, technological in nature, in the different discourses that were key ...

The Cold War, started in the year 1947 up until 1991. It is very well documented in books, documentaries, movies and in many other forms. It was sustained military and political tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. It began after the two countries formed an alliance that eventually defeated the Nazi Germany in the Second World War. They were the only two major superpowers, with great political and economic differences. George Orwell an English writer, was the person responsible for coining the name ‘Cold War’. Cold War was basically a situation where by the two countries, engaged ...

The history of the cold war is dated back in the 1945 immediately after the World War II. There were differences between superpower countries and their dominance in Asia, western and Eastern Europe. The United States was a major player in the cold war with its dominance power against the other superpower nations. After the World War II, the participating nations including the United States, China, and the USSR had learned the adverse effects of engaging in a hot war. As a result of massive destruction of properties and loss of lives of individuals from the participating nations, there was a consensus to ...

“America” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in the 1958. The poem revolves around the life of the speaker, who feels overwhelmed by life in U.S. Specifically, the speaker is dissatisfied with the level of capitalism in the country, which makes him admire his communist upbringing. He also conveys his admiration for Marxism. Although there are several literary strategies (put forward by different theorists) on the best means to interpret a text, none would be more appropriate than Michael Foucault’s in analyzing Ginsberg’s poem. In his articles “The Archaeology of Knowledge” and “What is an Author?” Michael ...

Was the Vietnam War a necessary extension of the broader Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Was the Vietnam War a necessary extension of the broader Cold War tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union? The Vietnam War broke out in 1955, it is also known as the American War. The cold war involved Northern Vietnam who were considered to be communists, supported by countries such as China and Soviet Union, and Southern Vietnam who were anti-communist supported by United States of America (Gettleman, Frankline, Frankline & Young, 1995). Viet Cong, a communist front from ...

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It is almost two decades since the occurrence of the infamous Cuban missile crisis. The events that unfolded in the fall of 162 have attracted many researchers, who have focused on the analysis of how Cuba, a small island nation, became the focal point of the Cold War. One of the most researched and written about events in the Cold War is the Cuban missile crisis. Prominent researchers have taken this course to give the political view and possible consequences of this infamous event. Various authors and experts have compiled extensive amounts of information from a number of different written sources ...

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“The nuclear race” was called the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States for supremacy in nuclear weapons during the Cold War. During the Cold War, and some other countries have been developing nuclear weapons, but no country has produced it on such a scale in which it was done, the two superpowers. The main feature of the Cold War was an arms race between the members of the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Despite its ruinous, it has led to significant scientific discoveries in many technological and military fields. Some of the ...

The Cold War took place between 1947 and 1971 as a result of struggle for superpower. It refers to the political tension that developed between the United States and USSR after the end of the World War II. While the two nations had joined forces to fight the Germans during the World War II, it is believed that their temporary friendship was severed by the growing interest to dominate international activities. As a result of the struggles, many crises emerged in both nations. The most prevalent occurrence was the manufacture of weapons used for mass destruction. Other crises included the ...

Introduction

The Anglo-Americans and the Russians seem to be moving to attain the same goal – to hold in their hands the destinies and fate of half of the world (Alexis de Tocqueville). Many people begin their Cold War history with Tocqueville’s prophecy made about events that would take place over a century later. Like many forecasts Tocqueville made his by his projections of the past and the present and how they would meld into the future. It must be noted that at this time all Russia and the United States had going for them was continents that were rich in ...