These stages can be divided into three schools of Cold War historiographical approaches: orthodoxy, revisionism, and post-revisionism. ... Initial interpretations of the foundation of the Cold War, known as Orthodoxy, became the norm for historians between the 1940's and the beginning the 1960's. ... Proactive steps to prevent such a take over from happening as propaganda would spread across America leading to a romanticized relationship between this fear of the spread of communism and at the same time, ensuring domestic support for support nuclear weapons testing and proliferation.9...

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Any argument on ethics or morality always seemed to come back to its religious foundation; for example, the cases of Charles Finney social reforms or Abraham Lincoln's personal conflict during the Civil War. ... Breaking from the Church/Division between Church and State Having gone through many stages of reform and personal interpretation, people began to accept whichever bits and pieces of religion they wanted until the early 20th century when it was weathered to nothing and most of America lost sight of God. ...

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The containment policy was definitely quite successful in the initial stages by probating founding, weapon and supplies to those governments who were fighting against the communist threat. The Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Program was announced and created in 1949, its purpose was to rebuilt European countries by creating a stronger foundation for the allied counties of Europe. ...

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At Yalta, the Allied leaders, known as the Big Three, met to plan the last stages of the Second World War and agree to the subsequent territorial division of Europe. ... By the late 1940s, anti-Communism of the most militant shades had a firm foundation among those ethnic groups with roots in Eastern Europe, communities for whom the name of Yalta was an abomination, and who saw American liberals as despicably soft of the Communist menace. ...

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With Reagan being at the older adulthood stage of his life, it allowed him to have knowledge and understanding of political issues that possibly a young adult candidate may have lacked. ... (Grimm, 2013) A big foundation was the Anti-Communism of Ronald Reagan administration's foreign policy. ...

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The period following WWII was a period of tension characterized by conflict at diplomatic, economic and all levels short of actual armed conflict between the principals on either side. The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and...

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