The aim of this essay is to evaluate the importance of the ideological differences in the outbreak of the Cold War. The Cold War begins with the end of the Second World War (WWII) in 1945, when the world was left crippled and needed to be reconstructed in some manner. ... To a certain extent ideology can be seen as the driving force behind the outbreak of the Cold War. ... Secretary of State), define the Cold War as a battle between the superpowers for supremacy in ways of thinking. ... It can also be argued, however, that 'expansionism' and self interest were the reasons why the Co...

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The Cold War was a war that literally wasn't your typical war. ... The Cold War was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR or modern day Russia). ... The Cold War was a real complicated war because it was more a fight about ideology, Democracy and Communism. ... The international level, at first had no effect in the Cold War, no other country or any international organization like the United Nations got involved in the Cold War. ... The most important levels of analysis in the origins of the Cold War would have to be th...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Initially, symbolizing her "Yalta-Potsdam order" associated rather with "conspiracy stronger than their opposition," but this trend has not received further development in international relations, despite the fact that it is possible to maintain the relationship between the two folding camp on verge of a "cold peace," without giving him slip to the "cold war." ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be finan...

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In my essay I will examine the consequences of those events and suggest other ideas on the origins of the Cold War. We should also take into account that there are several different theories and ways of looking at the origins of the Cold War. ... Although, I personally would agree that the policies of the World War II played a significant role in shaping the international politics of the post - war world, and possibly could be blamed for the beginning of the Cold War. ... The Potsdam conference is sometimes seen as the actual beginning of the Cold War. ... If both sides had accepted these ...

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The crisis also highlighted the Cold War climate engulfing the globe. ... The Cold war climate of 1956 arguably shaped every aspect of the Suez Crisis. ... The Cold War context was extremely apparent in the distribution of arms to Egypt in 1955. ... Another example of the Cold War context of the Suez crisis was the issue of the Aswan Dam. ... This Aswan dam is significant to the Suez crisis and the Cold War climate in numerous ways. ...

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However, there are factors which present issues that internationalized the study of the Cold War. ... As would be expected, the period during the 1960's and 1970's, the debate over the origins of the Cold War between traditionalists and revisionists was extremely argumentative and scathing: In the 1960's, debates generated by the cold war and the war in Vietnam brought the so-called cold war revisionist interpretation. ... This opened up the possibility of another school of Cold War historiography to take shape. ... Led by historian John Lewis Gaddis and his book "The United ...

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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... How this took place during and after the Cold War is in many ways quite dissimilar. ... The triangle is the predominant strategic geometric metaphor characterizing the nature of interactions in East Asia, especially during the Cold War and to a less intense degree in the post Cold War era. the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the ba...

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Cold War, a term used for the period of tense relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, stretching from the late 1940s to the late 1980s when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR ceased to exist. The two superpowers faced each other as leaders of conflicting political, economic and ideological alliances; became engaged in a nuclear arms race; and fought surrogate wars with each other in various locations in the Third World, from Korean, to Cuba and to Afghanistan. ... Another main reason was that there was a long history of mistrust between the two countries The ...

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These were the beginnings of the Cold War, and this essay will explain the origins of it and will attempt to reach a conclusion of which nation- Russia or America- was to blame for the outbreak of this war that lasted for nearly five decades. ... Another cause of the Cold War is the changing of Presidents in America. ... The final origin of the Cold War was the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, by the Americans. ... For decades the Cold War between Russia and America polarized the world, forcing countries to choose between the ideals of communism and cap...

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The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crisis of the Cold War, a sustained state of political and military tension between powers in the Western world led by the United States with NATO among its allies, and powers in the Eastern hemisphere, dominated by the Soviet Union along with the Warsaw Pact. ... The tensions between the US and USSR rose up and even though there was no act of war, this situation they found themselves in became known as the Cold War. ... It is interesting to point out that the US and the USSR were partner...

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During the cold war era globalization also had a part to play in the degrading of a number of African countries. During the cold war Ethiopia was a reliable ally to the United States who were trying to stop the spread of communism in sub Saharan Africa (Shinn). ... The main point of the cold war was for the two supers power of the world at that point try to spread their ideologies of how the think countries of the world should be run. ... Now Somalia and Ethiopia are both know around the world in a negative light due to the entire problem they have undergone lately, such as civil war, poverty ...

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Is it really possible that the status quo from 80s and the revival of the Cold War is a fact? ... The common belief about the end of the Cold War was very strong in American political circles. ... Worth mentioning is a fact that at that time people started to talk about the beginning of a New Cold War. Obama's administration would avoid to name that tensions as a Cold War. ... Many thought it started real Cold war in bilateral intercourse between Russia and USA. ...

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Not just empire's but events such as the cold war, WII or even the crusades have brought and gave new revolutionary inventions and equipment. ... The Roman Empire brought a fascinating range of languages as well as that they also used these languages to communicate with each other during war so their enemy wouldn't understand what they were attempting to plot. ... After the period of the crusades, after WWI and WWII there was a Cold War. ... The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power w...

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The Cold War started in the closing moments of World War II in 1945. ... The Cold War left a great impact on Germany, dividing Berlin in two with the Berlin Wall. ... The Cold War was such a rough time for everyone all around the world, however it hit the hardest for the Germans. ...

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The United Nations is an organization founded upon the aftermath of the Second World War to act as the hub of forthcoming international cooperation, aiming to be a forum of deliberation where moral values were to be spread to maintain peace and security, assuring the development of friendly relations between nations and improving the world by employing non-forcible measures. ... The main antagonisms leading to the Cold War rose almost simultaneously with the birth UN; the very nature of the antagonisms was deeply ideological: one could pragmatically put it as a US vs. ... When the Korean War b...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... Prior to Détente and the Nixon Administration, the American foreign policy that predominated during the Cold War was the strategy of containment. ... Secondly, certain facets of the war raised questions about the moral self-righteousness that had previously sustained American policy all through the period of the cold war. ... The war cracked the campaign of ant-communism which had been the preeminent ideology throughout the cold war, and which was mad...

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World War II was part of Ralph Vaughan William's inspiration for his tuba concerto. One of the residual outcomes of World War II was the Cold War, another major historical event that had a great amount of influence over Europe and the rest of the world during Vaughan Williams' composing of his tuba concerto. ... That is the Cold War. ... The beginning of the Cold War is perfectly represented in the second movement of Vaughan Williams' tuba concerto. ... World War II and the Cold War served as major inspirations for the piece that defined the latter portion of Vaughan Williams&...

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The conflict became known as the first Chechen war. ... War was declared in December of 1994 and a diplomatic agreement was reached by August 1996. ... There are several underpinnings that can explain the cause of this war. One reason for this war is the history of conflict Russia and Chechnya have had with each other. ... This theory explains the cause of civil war through two pinnacles; greed and grievance. ...

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Nonetheless there the Chemical Weapons Convention which first sat in 1972 during the Cold War bans the use stockpile, development, production, and sale of these weapons; this has been ratified by more than seventy nations. ... When India tested a nuclear explosion, Pakistan answered immediately with a test resembling an almost Cold War standoff. ... If this were to be so, India would have to stockpile enough nuclear arms to keep up with Pakistan similar to the Cold War syndrome involving US and Russia, "Pakistan might in relation to India inherit the role of the Soviet Union in relation to th...

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It was in the context of these events – and the Cold War – that the film A King in New York was produced in London in 1956. This paper will focus on this film and the way in which the Cold War had framed its production – both in terms of Chaplin's personal life and the themes of the film itself. ... It was born out of the troubles that Chaplin faced personally as well as the culture that the Cold War had created in the United States throughout the 1950s. ... This is a clear nod to the surveillance that he and others were subjected to in the heightened paranoia of the C...

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The United Nations was born into a world of divide from its birth post World War Two in 1945. ... One of the fundamental problems that faces and has faced the United Nations as a worldwide organisation has been the divides within it, largely between regions of its member states, often rendering it particularly in the Cold War era in a position of stalemate. The Cold War ensured that matters of international peace were not centred around the United Nations as was originally intended. At this time it was the two major superpowers of the East and West that largely control international peace and ...

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To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold war to further demonstrate the validity of this theory. ... While the preceding paragraphs outline the definition of power and examine the nature of man, further confirmation may be established by looking at the Cold War, explicitly the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The events leading up to the cold war were several shifts in power resulting from WWI and WWII. ... The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War it was problematic not only be...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... During the Cold War, the world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. ... When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the falling of the Berlin Wall, not only did Germany unite; globalization was introduced, establishing trade between nations: "Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an ...

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Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings can characterize the Cold War by two sides and their allies. The Cold War shortly followed the conference held between the leaders of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain, which took place at the Black Sea resort of Yalta between the 4th and 11th of February 1945. This event held great significance as it led to the Cold War. ... Americans viewed the Soviet denial of the Yalta agreements as enmity between the two nations, which could in effect develop into a war, with the power to destroy humanity, hence both the United Sta...

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Hungary planned to leave the Warsaw Pact and declare themselves neutral in the Cold War conflict between East and West. ... NATO and the Warsaw Pact countries never engaged each other in armed conflict, but fought a Cold War for more than 35 years. ... Cold War, Eastern Block & NATO The cold war (September 2, 1945 - December 26, 1991) was the conflict between the USA and its NATO allies - loosely described as the West - and the former Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies - loosely described as the Eastern Block. A full scale "east versus west" war never actually broke out, hence the meta...

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