The Cold War did affect the American's way of life. ... When the men all came back from World War II, many women lost their jobs and weren't as active as they were during the time of WWII. ... The Red Scare started back a few years before the 1920s and went away relatively for awhile during World War II. ... Another aspect of entertainment influenced by the cold war was music. ... Elvis, though not directly in his songs, was influenced by the Cold War. ...

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While the end of World War II brought peace and prosperity to most Americans, it also created a heightened state of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... At this time, North and South Korea were set to have an election that would eventually reunify them sometime after World War II. ... War broke out along the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. ... The Korean war was a tremendous part of The Cold War. This war would eventually lead to a stalemate and reach a cease fire. ...

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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. ... The term "Cold War" means a war fought on every front except actual fighting. ... It is possible to say that the Cold War was a war of Communism versus Capitalism. ... During World War II, Russia and the U.S had always had to be allies and work closely together, in order to be successful in a common goal: the defeat of Nazi occupation throughout the war. ... Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause of a possible next World W...

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They have no sense of why they are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. ... The men understand that this war is real, people will die. ... The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. ... To them there is no great purpose in this war as in The Revolutionary War or World War II. ... Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. ...

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After World War II, China was in a deep state of hardship, which certainly left space for improvement. ... However, due to poor leadership and questionable motives, Mao built a horrendous foundation for the post World War II China. ... Due to the devastating battles in World War II, China was in desperate need for a leader that could lead them out of the depression. ... Ultimately, due to the over powerful Communist party and Mao Zedong, China wasn't rebuilt properly after the wars and neither led to a free or fair society....

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our military was ...

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They highlight the radical difference in opinion they had on the war. ... Other themes include anti-war, communism, and inhumanity. ... " Here, it is emphasized that our nation was power hungry to end all fighting after emerging victorious in World War II. ... They didn't lose loved ones to the war because their power probably protected their families from having to be involved in the war. ... World War II strengthened our economy and brought us out of the Great Depression. ...

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There is no such thing as ethnic war 1. ... In terms of emphasis and concern, it came into prominence in the field of International Relations after the World War II era- with the emergence of many new independent countries, and especially after the cold war period- in the pursuit of seeking correlation between instability or conflict in some regional systems with that of ethnic elements of those regional systems. ... In the post-World War II era, increasing patterns of global interdepence in economic affairs, communication and transportation systems, and the penetratio...

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This feud led to the Cold War which didn't really consist of official battles, but more of disagreements and uncompromisable disputes. ... At the end of World War II, Germany was split into 4 zones controlled by the British in the northwest, French in the west, America in the south, and Soviet Union in the east. ... Luckily, the conflict was ended with no war and compromise was achieved quickly. During the Cold War, Americans were terrified of the Soviet Union and left with no knowledge of whether or not the Soviets would attack the US. ... If the Soviets tried to force communist views o...

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Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ... This war should have never involved the United States. ...

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The Red Scare was a political and social phenomenon that overcame the United States shortly after the First World War, which ended in late 1918. During World War I, an extreme patriotism took hold in the United States. Anyone who did not demonstrate the strong patriotic beliefs and attitudes that pushed the country into the war were looked on with suspicion and dislike. This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. ... Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Ru...

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The Stop of the Iron Curtain After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union certainly had different goals and aims. ... All of these things did in fact lead to the end of the Cold War. If the United States did not show how serious they were about stopping communism, the movement could have gone too far, just like Hitler's movement did during World War II. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. ... "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Com...

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By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. The cold war had affected the United States because the fear of communist conspiracy took over the nation and many citizens didn't want to go back to war. ... As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). ... For four decades, American citizens have been faced with numerous hardships like World War I, the Depression, World War II, and the Korean War. After World War II, many people were glad to be home with their ev...

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Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... This war, in particular, was very unique. ... The Vietnam War is thus more vivid among Americans than any other war, due to the media. ... This war was highly publicized. ...

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Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. ... Russia, who was involved in the war at the time, was forced to secede from the conflict in 1917. The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). ... During the Chinese civil war, The Soviet Union supported Chiang Kai-shek, not Mao Tse-tung. ... For months, the world watched as both countries sat on the brink of nucle...

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Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. ... He told his fellow founders in Indianapolis that Communists were telling American GI's that war is a horrible act of violence. ... "We are losing rapidly, a Cold War in which our freedom, our country, and our very existence are at stake. And while we don't seem to know we are losing the war, you can be sure the Communists do- (34). ... If people we're aware of his activities, he would be in the spotlight le...

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After World War II many Third World countries in Latin America seemed to have some interest in the political system of the Soviets. ... This was the beginning of what is known as the Nicaraguan War in which 1,580 Americans lost their lives in a period of 3-4 years. ... Due to the lack of support of the U.S. citizens towards the war, President Reagan decides to "rule it out- the sending of troops over to El Salvador. ... The war continued on until 1992, when both sides agreed to sign a peace treaty ending the war. ... The United States did something that the Soviets did not do to Nicarag...

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My name is Walt Disney. I was born on December 5, 1901 in Hermosa, Illinois. But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. I am an American motion-picture and television producer and showman. I am famous for being a pioneer of cartoon films and as the creator of Disneyland. Communism is not a ...

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The dystopian novel "Animal Farm," published in August 1945, is an allegory of the Russian Revolution. The animals and the events in George Orwell's novel parallel the characters and incidents of the Russian Revolution. Orwell laments that the 1917 Russian Revolution resulted in a government more t...

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During World War II, McCarthy served with the U.S Marines. ... McCarthy had been a poor judge, involved in shady cases; he had falsified his war record to make it look more heroic; and he had cut moral corners in his campaigning. ... He also came at a time when the cold war and the nuclear arms race had brought on a need for secrecy that led to a paranoid feeling of being surrounded by enemies within. ... Following the Cold War between Russia and the United States there came many hardships, such as unemployment and high inflation. ... Instead of declaring a holy war against the concept of Co...

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In the start of the story, the oppressor is Farmer Jones, which is the equivalent of Tsar Nicholas Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia (Nicolas II) in the real world. ... This is similar to the cause of the Russian Revolution as Russia had lost the most amount of men during World War 1. ...

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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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Revolutions, wars, and other struggles have been fought over his theories and concepts. ... The Russian people were extremely discontented with their ruler, Tsar Nicholas II, who had little interest in governing and was neglecting the country badly (Cohen, G.A. 444). ... This reason resulted in World War 1 and World War 2 and later the Cold War which had the largest impact on society. ... Many officials were forced to resign in the face of Cold War public opinion. ... Vietnam was a war fought and ended over 27 years ago. ...

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The goal of the Bolshevik party was to overthrow the Provisional Government after Czar Nicholas II was dethroned and create a proletariat government. ... In trying to do this; a so-called, Bread war broke out with several kulaks, wealthy, rural landowners who were against the communist party during the revolution, revolts throughout Russia. After the Civil war, Russia was hit with a devastating famine. ...

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