They fought to repress Hitler's ideology, preserving their own ideas of democracy, capitalism, and equality for all. ... Both were extremely powerful, but the two of them had major ideological differences, which is a recipe for disaster. The USA was a capitalist democracy, and had the support of other capitalists democracies, mainly in Western Europe, and the USSR was a communist dictatorship, supported by other communist states in Eastern Europe and Asia. Once again, the world was forced to take sides, and although there was no real direct conflict between the two major players in this w...

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Few people were willing to challenge or defy societal norms, weary of being branded "un-American", and therefore, a communist. ... "McCarthyism", as it was called, forced many government officials and Hollywood celebrities to go before McCarthy and the rest of the committee, in order to deny their involvement with the Communist Party. ... Though McCarthy himself was revealed to be a fraud and bully, revelations aided by the blooming technology of television, McCarthyism, or the communist witch hunt, did not end with him. The nation was forever fearful of communists in positions of governmen...

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For the officially defined period of forty five years the US and the USSR have been in the state of war; however no direct confrontations ever emerged between them on either territory. Each state had its ideological mission, its networks of alliances and third war clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. ... The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... Two superpowers with a compl...

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Firstly, the nation of Canada' must be defined. ... Secondly the word Independent' must be defined, Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary defines it as: Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing. ... Finally and most importantly Foreign policy must be defined. ... The second case study which will be examined is Canada's relationship with both communist and capitalist countries during the Cold War. ... Canada also maintained a strong relationship with China while under communist rule. ...

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What manifested was an unprecedented conflict of ideological misunderstandings, broken promises, suspicions, and changing players (i.e. deaths of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). ... They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confr...

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(Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. ... The Soviet Union no longer standing the type of threat it once did Reagan and his anti-communist attitude and mentality still did not let up. ... Reagan was not a fan of communism, he was an anti-communist. He did not accept it, an always had his eyes on communist. ...

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Power can be defined as the right to exert control over a certain group of people or objects (Merriam-Webster, 2014). ... Hard power can be defined as a nation's ability to use military force or economic incentives in order to influence the choices and behaviours of other nations (public diplomacy, 2013). ... Soft power was defined as the capability to get what is in the nation's best interest through the means of attraction rather than intimidation (Nye, 2004). ... Hitler began to invade European nations in hopes of spreading the Nazism ideology. ... In 1946, the United Kingdom had ...

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The reality of contemporary liberalism, as it is inspired by socialism, clearly fuses with the definition of this philosophical genius, if indeed it could be summarized as a general ideology. Early Enlightment philosophy provided the guiding light to the liberalistic evolution of freedom from restriction, to freedom in the sense of opportunity as a socialistic ideology. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ...

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Background and During the Cooling of Relations The Second World War drastically changed the political map of the world, and especially the European continent. The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. The anti-Hitler coalition, the main role whic...

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