Abstract
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.

From the Paper
"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

Abstract
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

From the Paper
"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

Abstract
This paper analyzes the factors that contributed to the beginning of the Cold War, which dominated much of the second half of the twentieth century. The paper concludes that, despite all the varied political and historical reasons, the central cause for the start of the Cold War can be seen as a fight for world power and political control in both an ideological and economic sense.

From the Paper
"There are many other important aspects that mark the beginning of the Cold War Era. One was the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO in 1949. NATO as a joint military group was created to "... defend against Soviet forces in Europe ". ( Cold War) The first members of NATO were Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the United States. ( Cold War) A similar organization was formed by the Soviet Union and its east European allies known as the Warsaw Pact. This also serves to emphasize the entrenchment of the Cold War into an organizational and institutional ethos."

Tags:USSR, America, ethos

Abstract
This paper briefly examines the concept of "Cold War". It asks the questions why it was called the cold war and whether it was a war at all.

From the Paper
"The Cold War really began during the Second World War, when talk of post-war treaties between the United States, Great Britain, and Russia were put on hold until the war ended. "From early in 1942 the American Government had repeatedly proclaimed the principle that no final decisions on matters of postwar frontiers or systems of government should be made until the end of the war" (Graebner 5)."

Tags:america, russia, nuclear, weapons, soviet, ussr

Abstract
This paper examines how Odd Arne Westad's "The Global Cold War", is an account of the American and Soviet strategic policies that governed global diplomatic and military behaviors over the Cold War's tumultuous duration. The paper also examines how the books primary focus is on the many states and nations on the periphery of this conflict which were directly impacted.

From the Paper
"Several of the more historically prominent moments of tumult to be sparked by the Cold War held to suggest in retrospect that moral differentiation between colonialism and nation-building is baseless. Indeed, the victims of both American and Russian occupation would suffer immensely, experiencing the regression and devastation of foreign aggression and war with little means for self-directed defense. In Chapter 5, the author calls to conversation the issues of Cuba and Vietnam, both of which would find themselves of geographical relevance to the philosophical and strategic positioning of opposing worldviews. Outcomes would include the standoff of the Cuban Missile Crisis--which to date represents perhaps the closest that we as a global community have come since World War II to deploying nuclear weaponry--and the quagmire of Vietnam, which is a war that clearly produced no victors. In both instances, it would become quite clear that the ambitions of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. would spill out into the sometimes divergent interests of puppet states."

Tags:America, Soviet, Russian, Cuban, Missile, Crisis

Abstract
This paper looks at the early stages of Cold War America by discussing what image America had of itself just prior to and in the opening act of, the Cold War, as well as why the alliance between the U.S.S.R and the United States collapsed by the end of the 1940s. Further, the paper attempts to explain why the perceptions of the U.S.S.R and the strategy proposals outlined in NSC-68 became linchpins of U.S. foreign policy for the better part of two generations - from 1950 until the U.S.S.R's collapse in the early 1990s. In the end, the final conclusion of the paper is that United States' actions were indeed motivated by (possibly) chauvinistic ambition - but that U.S. fears about the Soviet Union were well-founded in the main.

From the Paper
"The vision of the postwar WWII world offered by journalists and by geo-political observers fundamentally revolved around many things - the expansion and/or projection of American power being one of them. In an interesting essay published in Time magazine in February of 1941, Henry R. Luce argued that America should seek to use its power to serve the Earth as a "Good Samaritan" spreading (American) democracy all around the Globe. In other words, Luce put forward the argument that America should unify the planet under its benevolent leadership in much the same way as it had previously unified much of the North American continent and its various peoples (both Western European and non-Western European) under one flag."

Tags:ussr, NSC-68, soviet

Abstract
This paper discusses three books; "Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy" by John Lewis Gaddis, "Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente" by Jeremi Suri and "The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times" by Odd Arne Westad. The paper looks at how Westad attaches a generous share of blame on the U.S. throughout the book for laying the political/ideological groundwork for the Cold War. The paper then shows how Suri does not seem to take the U.S. or the Soviet Union to task as firmly as Westad, in terms of American and Soviet expansion of its interests into Third World countries. Finally, the paper outlines how Gaddis persuasively slams the Cold War strategies of the U.S. The paper comes to the conclusion that Westad has written a book that is far more expansive and inclusive than the other two.

From the Paper
"In Chapter 4, Westad, who attaches a generous share of blame on the U.S. throughout the book for laying the political / ideological groundwork for the Cold War, insists that it was the U.S. that "...had done much to create the Third World as an entity" (Westad, p. 157). He goes on to point out that the U.S. was never shy about intervening in other countries' affairs; Iran is mentioned, vis-a-vis the Eisenhower / Dulles / CIA coup that installed the Shah of Iran; and the U.S. covert military / political interference in the Congo and especially in Guatemala. In fact Westad argues that the U.S. - through its agenda of supporting laissez-faire economics - helped keep much of the Third World struggling, stuck in poverty. In many cases the U.S. did indeed oppose European colonialism (the French in Indo China, the Dutch in Indonesia and the French and British in the 1956 Suez Canal episode), Westad admits."

Tags:Third, World, Vietnam, Mikhail, Gorbachev, superpowers

Abstract
This paper discusses the various causes of the Cold War. The paper first explains that the Western powers feared that the Soviet Union would use its sphere of influence to encroach upon the remaining democracies in Europe, which were still weak in the aftermath of the Second World War. The paper also explains that Russia was poor, fearful and had an inferiority complex to the rest of Europe, who now felt even more threatened and open to attack. The paper then turns to Truman's reaction to Stalin's aggressive suppression of dissent in Eastern Europe and asserts that America's intervention was justifiable, and a welcome action for future democracies.

From the Paper
"The Cold War, the war of tensions and nuclear stalemate that characterized the period immediately after the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin War divided Europe into two warring factions. On one side, the United States and most of the Western European powers it had striven to rebuild as the result of its Marshall Plan stood for freedom, sometimes only in name but often with genuine feeling and commitment. On the other hand, Soviet Russia held Eastern Europe in a grip of fear and terror. Was Stalin simply an evil man? According to Winston Churchill, that was the case."

Tags:Trumen, Doctrine, Churchill, Stalin, communism, paranoia, fear

Abstract
The paper argues that the United States, rather than the Soviet Union, was to blame for causing the Cold War. Several reasons cited for this opinion include America's capitalist and expansionist goals, the determination of the U.S to maintain its preponderant position in the world, as well as the widespread misconception of the Soviet Union's desire and ability to wage war.

From the Paper
"The 14th Century Spanish writer Don Juan Manuel first used the term 'Cold War' to analyze the conflict between Christendom and Islam. However, it was the journalist Walter Lippmann who popularized this term in 1947 in his critique of U.S. policy towards the USSR. A cold war is one which brings neither honor nor peace to those who wage it, as opposed to a hot war, which ends in either death or peace. Contrary to physical war and fighting, a cold war is more commonly considered a period of tension and breath holding . During the Soviet-American Cold War, a period of covert antagonism between Moscow and Washington dominating world affairs from 1945 until the 1990's, the two superpowers engaged in an armaments race, armed and aided their allies and client states, intervened in civil wars by supporting different factions, built rival alliance systems, and developed exclusionist economic programs."

Tags:history, Bolsheviks, German-Soviet, Non-Aggression, Pact, Potsdam, Conference

Abstract
This paper is an analysis of the Cold War that posits the theory that America and the former Soviet Union share equal responsibility for its start. It looks at East-West competition and strained relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union following World War II.

From the Paper
"One historian defines the Cold War as a period of East-West competition, tension and conflict short of full-scale war characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs ..."

Tags:Truman, Kennedy, Stalin, Khrushchev, Eisenhower, Nixon, Truman Doctrine, Bay of Pigs, cold war, Berlin Wall