It will provide some of the causes of the Cold War, the events in the early period and post Cold War, and lastly a contrast of the Cold War and the Post Cold War Worlds. ... Some other major events on the Cold War were such as the crisis at Cuba in 1962 and the Vietnam War. ... During the 60s, there was an extension of the cold war, which is the Vietnam War. North Vietnam's invasion of South Vietnam was a relatively small conflict in South Asia. ... Communist forces eventually conquered South Vietnam and proved that the United States was growing unsure of itself and its policies. ...

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Vietnam became a major defiance state that later helped to shape the outcome of the Cold War. ... The Vietnam War became a proxy between the United States, the Soviet Union and communist China. ... Not only did the USA fail to stop South Vietnam going Communist, but the heavy bombing of Vietnam's neighbors, Laos and Cambodia in secret CIA wars, actually helped the Communist forces in those countries to win support. ... The war sparked a series of social movements and criticism of Johnson's involvement in Vietnam. ... Since the United States suffered from 'Vietnam syndrome'...

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The Cold War is something that everyone has heard about yet most of us have no clue what the war was really about or why it was started or for that fact who even won the war. ... Many other countries were also involved in the war such as China and Vietnam, among many others. ... In 1965, American forces enter Vietnam and the Chinese support North Vietnam while the United States take the South's side. ... "The dominoes fall in the Cold War" (CNN). ... In conclusion, no one won nor lost the Cold War. ...

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Question What role do you think Canada played as a Middle power during the Cold War and how did this shape our relationship in the Global Community? ... Our role as a "middle power" in the cold war shaped our relationship in the global community. ... We disagreed in going to Vietnam, but maintained friendly with the US as we still made trades back and forth. ... Our soldiers were sent to keep peace while negotiating was happening in areas where war hadn't broken out yet. ... We do have nuclear power, just no weapons, as we side on America for the weapons in case of war. ...

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The entire world was watching as the Cold War went from moments of détente, to hours at the brink of world war three. ... Tensions stayed high in the Olympics, the space race, ICBM's, the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... The real protection from this possible total war was known as MAD. ... The partnership that deteriorated and now is being rebuilt could have turned into a hot' war at anytime, and began a much more destructive world war. The cold war also had terrible effects on North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and many other nations. ...

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The United States supported their view in the war in many different ways. ... Fleming, a professor of International Relations at Vanderbilt University, which gave his thoughts on why the U.S. went into Vietnam. He discussed that South Vietnam is a very strategic spot and if it were taken over by communism all of Southeast Asia would have been taken over, too. ... The Soviet Union too supported its non capitalist view during the cold war. ... He also added capitalism would find its grave in another world war, if their was one. ...

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Some historians claim that Cold War ended after the Cuban Missile Crisis. ... To prove that, Nixon began gradual withdrawal from Vietnam War - so as not to provoke the USSR. ... Furthermore, practically immediately after the Crisis, the USA's new President - Johnson - declared total involvement in the Vietnam War and even fabricated - as it is now believed - the Tanking Gulf incident, where the Americans claimed that the North Vietnamese fired at their ship. Therefore, the USA's aggression against communism - for North Vietnam declared herself communist - escalated even further an...

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China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. China has been Communist since 1949, Cuba since 1961, Laos since 1975, North Korea since 1948, and Vietnam since 1976. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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Nixon became president during one of the most controversial events in American history: Vietnam. ... A whole subculture, the hippy movement, had developed among teens opposed to the war. The first year he was president, Nixon created the Guam doctrine, which allowed him to remove ground troops from South Vietnam, but continue sending aid to the Asian nations fighting communism. ... In 1972 Nixon was forced to send America back into the war when he bombed North Vietnam. ... Virtually paralyzed, North Vietnam retreated; the war ended, but has left an immense scar on this nation and the others i...

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The cold war was a long and tense time in American and European history. ... We were also tested in many ways: the Korean and Vietnam wars, the bloody wars for independence in countries such as Indonesia and Angola, and my current topic, the Cuban missile crisis. Of all the situations during the cold war, none of them ranks as high as the missile crisis, in its intensity and proximity. It's quite honestly the closest we got to an actual war in the cold war, and it tested the lines drawn by the two colliding superpowers of the world at that time, the United States and the Soviet Union. ......

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1) The Cuban Missile Crisis was the Cold War's closest brush with nuclear war. ... In Dec., 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States. 5) I believe the U.S. got involved in the Vietnam War to keep Communism contained. ... North Vietnam were forcing, Communism, a government structure that not everyone agreed with on to South Vietnam. ...

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War was the topic of nearly all conversations and sex and drugs were on everyone's minds. While boogie fever swept dance floors, young men were sent off to die in a war that they could never win. ... One can be certain though that with her steadfast and determined way of thinking, she probably would have been protesting the Vietnam War from the very start and the right of nuclear power plants to be in operative mode. ... For example, many other wars were breaking out and many others were beginning to cool off. The Yom Kippur War began in 1973 while the Cold War was ceasing between the US,...

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The city became the symbolic crux of the entire war. ... Only 6,000 returned to Germany at the end of the war. ... They underestimated the skill and will of the Russians much like the US did when they entered Vietnam. ... Because they planed for a fast victory the German troops were ill equipped and trained to deal with Russian winter terrain, again much like the US in Vietnam. ... The amounts of Russian tanks and planes being produced during the war increased during the war whereas German production declined. ...

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Most would argue unfair taxes are what started the Revolutionary War. ... Before his presidency, the world had seen the triumph of Marxism in countries such as Angola and Nicaragua, with El Salvador seeming to follow them, America had been humiliated by the outcome of the Vietnam War in 1975, during the Jimmy Carter administration, 52 Americans in embassies had been captured, which resulted in the American military having low morale, low pay, outdated equipment, and little to no maintenance on what equipment they did have. ... President Reagan ended the Cold War. ... This promise was put to th...

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This was the only good example of how the Soviets would act, and it is why the United States decided to stay with the "Containment" theory for the entirety of the Cold War. ... History including the Korean War, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs invasion. ... What would have happened if during the first few years of the Cold War the U.S. went with a different type of foreign policy, one that put less emphasis of force and more emphasis on understanding. Perhaps many wars could have been avoided and much money would have been saved in both countries, or perhaps we would all be speaking Russian n...

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A nuclear war could start at any moment. For example if a nation misjudged an enemy movement they could start a nuclear war. ... In spite of terrible wars in the Middle East and Vietnam and several nuclear alarms, he US and the Soviet Union seem to be edging towards security than threat. ... Experts still think that a nuclear war could start by accident. ... If a war starts then there must be peace talks before the weapons can be launched. ...

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JFK's pragmatic approach in dealing with the USSR led to the outcome of events related to the Cold War in the early 1960's. ... In hindsight Kennedy's caution during the crisis saved the United States from possible nuclear war, but the gamble he took was huge. ... In 1961 the North Vietnamese began developing a supply line through Laos into South Vietnam. ... In fairness to both sides, the Cold War was full of deceptions and misjudgments on both sides. ... The Cold War was essentially a game of "chicken-. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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