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August 20, 2014 think living under the threat of nuclear war had to have been quite a scary time for children being told to always be on the lookout for a nuclear blast. I honestly don’t think the threat was a real as the authorities made it out to be, but I guess it was…

Following World War II, many of the most powerful countries were extremely weakened. This weakness caused France, Germany, and Great Britain, to lose most of their power both militarily and economically. However, there were two leading countries that overcame the aftermath of the war, the Soviet Union and the United States. These two dominant countries,…

North Korea was also ere much affected by the Cold War; “Soviet Report on Communists in Korea, 1945” validates the fact that the North Korean government would be very different if the Cold War never took place. The Cold War also affected North Korea in other ways; National Security Council Report, NCSC 8/2 justifies that…

During the Cold War, proxy wars were fought using third parties to prevent full-scale war. The fear of mutually assured destruction made it crucial to avoid such conflicts. Examples of proxy wars between the Soviet and American sides include the Greek civil war, Korean War, Cuban Revolution, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, Afghan Soviet war,…

            The Cold War, that period of silent conflict between the United States and the U.S.S.R. and their respective allies, waged without the occurrence of actual warfare, spawned various issues of which the survival of mankind from a possible all-out nuclear war was foremost.    Through the freedoms guaranteed by the U. S. Constitution as enunciated…

The reaction of the Soviets with the Molotov Plan and COMMON and their plan to spread communism. Include he Korean war and other wars. Significance: At the end of WI Stalin had the red army spread throughout Germany and Eastern Europe and it made the impression he was rather occupying it than helping it. Stalin…

Unipolar is a system with only a single major actor, which is usually a single state that dominates all the other smaller states in the global political system. In other words to discuss the idea of Unipolar in the contemporary International system, I would briefly trace the advert of modern International system in the view of…

Carolina Recchi History of the Americas November 14th 2012 U. S foreign policy impact on Latin America’s Cold War The mid 20th century was characterized by years of conflict and political tumult in most of Latin America. As countries within this hemisphere were striving to gain independence and global recognition, the U. S and USSR…

Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky IV is physically charged and captivating movie yet it represents a carefully plotted political propaganda genre that captured the psychological side of the Cold war between the United States and its allies on one side and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and its allies on the other during the 1980s….

To What Extent Was the Cold War Inevitable? With the end of World War II (WWII) in 1945 began the Cold War, an international conflict that lasted from 1947–1991 and plagued nations across the globe. As the post-war negotiations were deliberated by three of the strongest world powers, the United States (US), Britain, and the…