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This paper examines world foreign policy (with an emphasis on the United States)leading up to the Cold War. Different sources are used to determine whether the Cold War was a natural occurrence of the outcome of WWII. This paper includes MLA style footnotes but does not contain a works cited page.

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"As president, Roosevelt chose to keep many of his policy decisions to himself, and Vice President Harry S. Truman often did not know the choices made by the American political leader. FDR often manipulated those around him, perhaps including the American people, in order to lead the country on the path which he felt to be appropriate for it. The secret meeting held between the British and the US from 9-12 August 1941, which became known as the Atlantic Charter, illustrated FDR's decision to place America's economic needs before the democratic process. In the talks that took place over those four days, FDR attempted to convince British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree to a joint regulation that would end the imperial preference system and that the two countries would "'endeavor to further enjoyment by all peoples of access, without discrimination and on equal terms, to the markets and to the raw materials of the world.'" The benefit for Great Britain would be an unspecified type of US support for the Allied cause against the Axis powers. FDR needed to proceed very cautiously in this agreement, as it was unconstitutional for the president to declare war, and while he wished to aid the Allies, it was essential to find a way for the US to enter the war without having to fight two fronts, one in Europe and the other in the Pacific. Not even a full four months later, this dilemma was solved for the president when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941."

Tags:cold war, foreign policy, united states, communism, soviet union, monroe doctrine

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The writer of this article points out that there is no single cause for the Cold War between the United States and Russia. The writer notes that in the roughly 45 years that this conflict took place, many reasons were given for both initiating and continuing with it. In the end, no clear winner emerged from this unfortunate era in history. This paper first gives a brief description defining the period of the Cold War, then examines its domestic and international causes.

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"There is no single cause for the Cold War between the United States and Russia. In the roughly 45 years that this conflict took place, many reasons were given for both initiating and continuing with it. In the end, no clear winner emerged from this unfortunate era in history. This paper first gives a brief description defining the period of the Cold War, then examines its domestic and international causes."

Tags:cold, war, origins

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Stanley Kubrick uses satire to provide a very different view of the Cold War. This paper shows Kubrick's overall critique of the Cold War and how some events in the movie are related to the events of the time. Also uses examples from the movie and other authors.

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"The Cold War developed after World War II between the United States, with their allies, and the Soviet Union. It was a very tense time in American history marked by suspicion, distrust, paranoia, and most importantly misunderstanding. In Stanley Kubrick's film, "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", he takes shots at all of these different attitudes toward the Cold War. Kubrick's mind developed a very different view of this time in American history, one of sarcasm and ridiculous characters, but his film will go down as one of the first of its kind."

Tags:1960, american, cold, war

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The paper introduces the European Union through the post-World War One building of the League of Nations and describes how the EU was a center of a propaganda war during the Cold War. The paper concludes with the present-day state of affairs, where NATO and EU remain in the picture, and the U.S. remains an ally, but the bonds between these partners have weakened due to the lessening of an imminent threat.

Tags:cold war, european union, league of nations

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This paper presents a review of the article "The Cold War: What do we now know?" by Melvyn Leffler which focuses on the origins of the Cold War. The paper gives particular attention to the link between the relationship and interactions between national decision making and the international system as a whole. It also examines the period of detente between the U.S. and USSR.

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"In his article entitled 'The Cold War What do We Now Know' Melvyn Leffler undertakes a review of the modern literature concerning the period of detente between the United States and the Soviet Union known as the Cold War. Leffler proposes that the sheer number of new treatises on the topic suggest that we have to think more deeply about the connections between power, culture and political economy as well as the linkages between beliefs, perceptions and behavior.(Leffler) The challenge forLeffler however is that none..."

Tags:history, cold war, U.S., USSR, soviet union, stalin

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A paper which answers specific questions relating to the Cold War, using textual knowledge and lessons.

Tags:cold, war, politics

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This paper describes the origins of the Cold War, how it manifested itself in American society, the immediate ramifications of the Cold War (both positive and negative) and its political aftermath. The paper also describes some of the major historical events that took place in the context of the Cold War such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.

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"Thus, a security crisis developed in the 1950s with the fear of communism and the certainty that subversives had infiltrated nearly every facet of American life. The McCarthy era, as it came to be known, was referred to by many as a witch-hunt, with the Miller play only one instance of such criticism. This was a political crisis that was used by Senator McCarthy as a way of elevating himself and boosting his career, but the mass hysteria of the time made it possible for him to do this and also caused others to be accomplices in accusing people of being subversives. Ferrante points out that other countries have also indulged in various forms of political witch-hunt and cites Communist China and the Cultural Revolution, a time when "the seemingly most insignificant acts were classified as crimes against a group or country to divert the public's attention from the shortcomings of those in power, unite the public behind a cause, or take people's attention away from a disruptive event such as massive job layoffs." "

Tags:east, west, ideology, nuclear, war, soviet, union, tension, red, scare, korea, space

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The paper explores the Cold War, the circumstances that led to the resolution of the Cold War and the social and political factors that influenced Ronald Reagan's ability to put an end to this period of fear and terror. The paper discusses the history of the Cold War and explains the war from the American and Soviet perspectives. The paper defends the position that Ronald Reagan was largely responsible for putting an end to the Cold War and the fear it generated. The paper relates how even Mr. Gorbachev admitted years later that he was outmatched by Reagan's strategy. The paper concludes that everyone was a winner by the end of the Cold War. The threat to both American and Soviet lives and future was greatly reduced.

History of the Cold War
Two Different Viewpoints
Changing Leaders in the Global Arena
The End of an Era
The Importance of the Collapse of the Soviet Economy
Technology and the US Rise to Power
Strategic Changes and Paradigm Shifts
Reagan's Contribution in Retrospect
Conclusion: Who Won the War?

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"The Cold War began in 1947 and ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991. The two forces at the heart of the conflict was the United States and their allies against the Soviet Union and their set of allies. This struggle is called the Cold War because open hostility never occurred. However, the situations never escalated into full scale war or battle. The war was fought using posturing and information swapping regarding who had the worst weapons and who would likely to be able to inflict the most damage on the other should a full scale war occur."

Tags:Gorbachev, hostility, conflict, diplomacy

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This paper is about United States and Soviet Union relations in the Cold War period. The author investigates the causes of this war, positions of the countries which took part in it, the main events of the war and the effects that the Cold War had on the diplomacy of the United States.

Table of Contents.

Introduction.
Chapter 1: Historical Background of the Cold War.
1.1 The Historical Context.
1.2 Causes and Interpretations. Chapter 2: The Cold War Chronology.
2.1 The War Years
2.2 The Truman Doctrine.
2.3 The Marshall Plan.
Chapter 3: The Role of Cold War in American History and Diplomacy.
3.1 Declaration of the Cold War.
3.2 ?old War Issues
Conclusion
Glossary
References

From the Paper
"The Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion and misunderstanding by both the United States and Soviet Union, and their allies. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of the third world war. The United States accused the USSR of seeking to expand Communism throughout the world. The Soviets, meanwhile, charged the United States with practicing imperialism and with attempting to stop revolutionary activity in other countries. Each block's vision of the world contributed to East-West tension. The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. The Soviet Union, however, tried control areas it considered vital to its national interest, including much of Eastern Europe."

Tags:government, policy, citizens, civilians, death, destruction

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This paper presents a background and history of the Cold War. The paper explains the origins of the war including the main characters and countries involved in it. The writer then offers an interpretation of the main causes behind the conflict and how it developed into the long-term conflict it became. Finally, the paper examines its effect on Europe, the United States and the rest of the world.

Contents:
Introduction
The Origins
The Main Causes
Start of the Cold War
The Cold War Intensifies in Europe
Division of Germany
Other Tit-for-Tat Cold War Events in Europe
How the Cold War Affected the Rest of the World?
Conclusion

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"Although the Cold War occurred after the Second World War, it had its roots in the events that took place towards the fag end of World War I. At the time of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, the First World War was nearing its end; Russia's new Communist leader Vladimir Lenin decided to withdraw his country from the war. Military intervention in Russia by the United States, Britain, France, and Japan, soon followed? purportedly to restore the collapsed Eastern Front in their war effort against Germany. (Legvold, para on ?Background.?) The Communist Russia saw the intervention as an attempt to undermine the fledgling revolution. This sowed the seeds of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States that came to fore several decades later in the post World War II period."

Tags:russia, soviet, union, america, united, states, communism, democracy