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The Cold War: 1946-1960, 2004.
This paper discusses how the Cold War, a conflict based on diverse political ideologies, was mainly "fought" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in the years following the end of World War II.
4,315 words (approx. 17.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 114.95
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This paper explains that the central problem seems to have revolved around the desire of the West to liberate the states of Eastern Europe through democratic reforms and a capitalist economy; however, Joseph Stalin, the tyrannical leader of the Soviet Union, felt that he was entitled to rule the Eastern European countries that the Soviet Union had occupied during the war. The author points out the term ?Iron Curtain? meant that the West and the East were divided by an invisible barrier beginning in Berlin, Germany, a barrier based on political divisiveness and social agendas, which could only be penetrated by d?tente and threats, especially via the use and proliferation of atomic weapons. The paper relates that on December 20, 1950, former President Herbert Hoover stated, ?Americans have no reason for hysteria or loss of confidence in our security or our future, (for) within American security rests the future security of all mankind?; thereby, summing up the entire Cold War. The United States must persevere to guarantee that such atomic annihilation never occurs, even in a world filled with the possible horrors of uncontrolled technology.
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"On January 10, 1946, the first General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations convened in London with U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes leading the American delegation. In all, fifty-one nations, most of which were heavily involved in World War II and suffered millions of casualties, took part in this global meeting. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan was one of the prime reasons for this delegation, due to the realization of the immense power of atomic energy and its potential for misuse in the form of atomic weapons. On January 24, the U.N. agreed to an international Atomic Energy Commission that in essence would impose highly restrictive laws regarding atomic energy and its use in wartime as well as in peacetime. Some historians have recognized the development of this commission as the initial trigger for the Cold War, due to the fact that it ?placed the Soviet Union, while under the control of Josep Stalin, in a position of defending itself against preconceived enemies that wished to destroy the Communist/Socialist system.?"
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The Cold War, 2002.
A study addressing the question: "Was the Cold War a statement of power?".
3,380 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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The paper deals with how the Cold War affected the power of the United States. A synopsis of the Cold War is given, which includes the background of World War II. Kennedy?s role in the Cold War is examined as is Winston Churchill?s speech of 1946 at Fulton, Missouri. The purpose of the war is explored, and the development of NATO is looked at. William Odom?s reasons for the war are cited. The paper concludes with the after-effects of the Cold War noticeable today.
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"One of the many reasons for war has evolved around the need for power and control. This can be seen in most countries and the reasons they have war. Was the political reason that the United States was involved in the Cold War a statement of power over the Soviet Union? Did the United States want to make a bold statement to other countries that the United States believed in democracy and would fight if needed to help other countries maintain their democracy? Was the real reason for the war a bold statement to others that United States had power and would use it if need be? Why or Why not? Is the Cold War really over? Will there be another Cold War? What affect has the terrorists had on the nation and the Cold War? Will Russia side with the United States?"
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The Cold War, 2001.
A look at the years of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. A discussion of the history and the effects of the Cold War.
20,660 words (approx. 82.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 249.95
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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
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"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."
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2000 vs. 1960, 2006.
This paper argues that, despite the passage of time, the cause and effect of the world climate in 1960 and today are very similar.
1,820 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper contends that, comparing today with 1960, humanity has not advanced in the past four decades; the world of today still comes down to the choice of opportunity and harmony or discord and destruction. The author explains that, in 1960, because of the Cold War, the world faced the threat of nuclear war; whereas, in the 21st century, with the collapse of the U.S.S.R and the subsequent strengthening of the U.S. and other nations, which has resulted in some of the Islamic peoples' growing resentment towards Western influence, the world now faces global terrorism. This paper concludes that the world community is constantly faced with choices that literally can result in life or death; therefore, every person, government leader and nation must make the right choices between war or peace and freedom or oppression to ensure the life of future generations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Definition
Cause and Effect
Argument
Conclusion
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"In 1960, on a cold crisp January afternoon, the newly elected President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, stood at the podium of his inaugural and gave a speech outlining his objectives for the coming presidential term. As one of the most powerful nations in the world at that time, people in all corners of the globe listened with rapt attention. In this speech, Kennedy made it clear that he represented a new era of leadership not only for the United States, but also for the world; a leadership that was born in the 20th century and held a fresh point of view to lead the nations of the world in a bold new direction, ..."
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The Cold War, 2002.
A brief paper on the cold war, including its main causes and effects.
1,969 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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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."
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The Cold War Winner, 2007.
This paper discusses whether Ronald Reagan should be credited with winning the Cold War.
6,341 words (approx. 25.4 pages), 20 sources, MLA, $ 147.95
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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."
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McCarthy and the Cold War, 2005.
Discusses the events leading up to the Cold War and the impact the Cold War had on the society and politics of the United States.
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This paper looks at how the Cold War with the Soviet Union fed fears of Communism and feelings of paranoia and, ultimately, allowed Joseph McCarthy to wield tremendous political and social power in the United States. The paper describes the history of McCarthy's anti-communist campaign, his obsession with the communists-in-government issue, the conditions at the time that allowed him to feed on the American fear of Communism, why he was so popular, and how he was finally defeated.
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"One aspect of history is that a country?s so-called ?friend? one day, can be an enemy the next and visa versa. The United States and Soviet Union during World War II joined ranks against the real threat of Nazi Germany. However, it did not take long after the end of the war for Russia and the United States to once again bully each other. Even before the final surrender of Germany in 1945, the two super powers rapidly found themselves in a new military and diplomatic rivalry. Meanwhile, in the United States, the economy was taking time to build and unemployment was growing. Thoughts of the Depression loomed in people?s minds. The friction with the Russians, which would receive the name of Cold War, did not help. Yet it did create a scapegoat for fears and feelings of paranoia. As the tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. mounted, the Communist threat reached American shores. Surely, Russia was infiltrating the government. The Rosenberg?s trial in 1951 put all the props on the stage for the director Joseph McCarthy."
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The Cold War, 2005.
This paper discusses the effect of the Cold War on countries other than the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
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This paper explains that the Cold War was a globalized conflict, which dragged every nation into the geopolitical game being played by U.S.S.R. and the U.S. It shows how the third world nations of Africa, Middle East, Asia and Latin America had severe economic repercussions under the shadow of the superpowers. The author points out that the 'Guatemalan Affair' is an instance of how the U.S. used its economic might to create instability in this Latin nation and use the opportunity to install a favorable puppet government. The paper relates that the Cold War had a positive effect of the economic recovery of Japan and Germany, spurred scientific research and served as a proxy war.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Cold War (Effect on Japan and West Germany)
Effect on Third World Countries
Guatemala Affair
Cold War and Africa
Iran-Contra Affair
Cuban Missile Crisis
Gorbachev and the End of Cold War
Conclusion
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"Gorbachev's presidency marked a new dawn in the relationships between U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was during his tenure that the INF treaty (Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces) was signed that eliminated all nuclear arms in the range of 500 and 5500 Kilometers. The early nineties however meant an economic downturn for the soviets and many European countries and the soaring unemployment under the socialist policies created poverty and social unrest. The Soviet Union was forced to enter the open market in exchange for aid. The ensuing coup saw the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the declaration of independence by the republics. Thus the death of the soviet empire marked the end of the Cold War."
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The Cold War, 2004.
This paper is about the historiography examining the origins of the Cold War.
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This paper explains that the historiography of the origins of the Cold War passes through three chronologically defined and ideologically distinct phases, which can be called ?traditionalist?, ?revisionist?, and ?post-revisionist?. Each reflects the cultural and political attitudes prevailing in the wider Cold War context of the particular era in which it flourished. The author points out that some historians believe that power politics and strategic considerations were more important than ideology in determining Soviet policy and behavior; therefore, the Cold War resulted from a contest of great powers, not a conflict of ideologies, and both the United States and the Soviet Union bear responsibility for the origins of the Cold War. The paper relates that a new element, which reflects important trends in modern Cold War scholarship, concerns the personality of Stalin, the nature of authoritarian government, and the character and content of Communist ideology.
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"From the end of the Second World War until the mid-1960s, the ?traditionalists? held the field with a standpoint that can be summarized as essentially pro-American/pro-Western and anti-Soviet. Essentially, such scholars held the Soviet Union responsible for the onset of the Cold War by undermining the Second World War alliance between East and West, increasing the level of military confrontation between Russia and America, and acting aggressively to promote the imposition and spread of Communism in Europe and elsewhere. It was thus argued that the United States was correct in its policy of containment towards the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, and that the American position was essentially a defensive one forced upon it by the hostility and aggression of the Communist East."
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"Dismantling The Cold War Economy" ( Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken ), 1995.
A critical review of this work on Cold War economic problems, the impact of the arms race on the U.S. industry and opportunities for post-Cold War conversion.
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"This study will examine Dismantling the Cold War Economy, by Ann Markusen and Joel Yudken, considering the chief problems associated with the Cold War economy, the impact of the Cold War on U.S. industry, and the possibility and opportunities of economic conversion from Cold War imperatives, as well as the obstacles to that conversion. The argument herein will be that despite the fact that the military domination of the Cold War economy created serious obstacles to post-Cold War conversion, and despite the fact that those obstacles are deeply entrenched despite the end of the Cold War, such conversion is possible. Perhaps the authors are overly optimistic in this regard, but it would still be going too far to argue that conversion is impossible. After all, the conversion to a military-industrial-dominated economy (which had its origins not in the Cold War but ..."
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Cold War Culture, 2001.
How the creation of images of the Cold War shaped the culture of its time. Cold War rhetoric in politics & culture. Geopolitical stakes. Propaganda "war." Shifting U.S. priorities.
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"This research examines Cold War culture, in which the issue of public image, or perception, of geopolitical rivals and allies and their adherents surfaced as a recurring theme throughout the last half of the 20th century. The research will consider ways in which commentators and artists, via public statements, the public discourse, and such media as television and film, treated the question of image in that period, with a view toward identifying reasons that perception was so important to so many as well as evaluating the weight that Cold War-context presentation carried in shaping the culture of the time.
The generation that witnessed and participated in World War II was shocked to learn afterward that some 12 million people--6 million of them Jews--had been murdered, not collaterally but before and in parallel with the shooting war in Europe, as a ..."
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Cold War and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2005.
A comparison of the global operating systems of the Cold War and globalization and the U.S. role in these operating systems.
2,476 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This essay focuses on the Cold War era to provide a picture of what global society was like during that epoch and attempts to draw parallels between that status quo and the emergence of a new Cold War era in foreign policy represented by the War on Terror. The existence of clear-cut walls and borders is assayed in addition to the differing economic systems in existence during the Cold War. Concepts of realism and totalitarianism are discussed, alongside concepts of cultural hegemony and soft power and the idea of cultural transcendence through material considerations and methods of foreign policy dissemination. The defining systems of the Cold War era are addressed in terms of economic and ideological certitudes that have since been challenged with the onset of what many are calling a new epoch of globalization in foreign policy. They have also been counter-construed by the present administration's focus on the polar separation of "good" and "evil," internationally, and the importance of the American perspective.
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"Much extant literature on the Cold War focuses on the ord "perceived," in terms of the perceived threat represented by the Soviet Union to interests of the United States along lines of ideology and control. This became a global issue in which the ideologies of communism and free-market capitalism were perceived to be in a locked battle, the stakes of which were heightened by the positions of the Soviet Union and the United States as oppositional superpowers possessing stockpiles of nuclear weapons. The Cold War as an ideological construction itself can be traced to the United States, which did most of the perceiving in terms of threats to its interests in Europe after the second World
War, but the Soviet Union also did its share of perceiving, as when Reagan's absolutist rhetoric and international acts of state-sponsored terror in the 1980s were seen by the Soviet Union to be acts that presaged a confrontation of the two ideologies. Although there were many clashes throughout the Cold War, such as the Cuban missile crisis,
which brought the nations to the brink of this confrontation, it never actually occurred, and with the breakup of the Soviet Union as a reaction of heightened nationalism spurred on by Gorbachev, the Cold War Ended."
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The Causes of the Cold War, 2002.
Asks the questions: How did the Cold War begin, and who started it? Also shows that the answer is not as clear-cut as it seems.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 133.95
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In this paper it is argued that the origins of the Cold War remain the subject of historical controversy. This paper critically examines how the Cold War began and the question of who started it. This paper argues the thesis that the question of who started the Cold War is irrelevant and that it was an inevitable outcome of the geo-political arrangement of the world in the 20th century. This essay also evaluates the two competing historical points of view on the Cold War: the so-called "orthodox" and "revisionist" schools.
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The Berlin Blockade as the Beginning of the Cold War, 2002.
Discusses the political factors that lead up to the Berlin Blockade and how that act helped launch the Cold War.
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The Cold War is considered by historians to be one of the most prominent social and political developments of the later Twentieth Century and served to form the political and economic alliances which impacted almost every aspect of modern life. The development of the Cold War can be traced back nearly a century, but the event that triggered the outbreak of the Cold War itself is believed to be the Berlin Blockade. This paper investigates the causes of the Berlin Blockade and how this event came to pass, with reflection on how the Berlin Blockade helped chart the development of the Cold War itself.
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The Cold War, 2004.
An analysis of the inevitability of the Cold War.
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Whether the Cold War was inevitable or whether it could have been avoided is something that has plagued historians and researchers for many years. In this paper, the position is taken that the Cold War was indeed inevitable because of all of the issues and problems that came before it. By the time the Cold War started in 1947, there was little that could have been done to avoid it. The paper explains that the Cold War originally came about due to a strong breakdown in the post-war relations that were seen between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II. These two powerful nations were the main victors in WWII, and they both stated in 1945 that they were committed to showing cooperation and unity.
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"As soon as the cold war began, historians and researchers began to debate what had caused it. There were several phases for these debates, and they came with different time periods (McCauley, 1990). For example, from the time the cold war started through most of the 1970s, American foreign policy was the focus of the issue (McCauley, 1990). Some believed that the cause of the cold war was the fact that America resisted the expansion that the Soviet Union was trying to make (Roberts, 1999). Others were more critical of America and argued that the cold war actually came about because the United States was both unreasonable and aggressive after WWII, which provoked the Soviet Union (Roberts, 1999)."
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