This treaty was the beginning of the cold war and a tension between Eastern and Western Europe. ... This event marked the end of the Second World War but also started a new beginning of a greater tension to the Cold War. ... 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. ...

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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 Soviet Union is beginning to worry about their security. ... This shows that the United States is beginning to get more and more support against communism while the Soviets are still turning countries little by little towards communism. ... In the end although, they both had maintained peace by not beginning World War III, which was one of the main g...

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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. The Germans and the Russian had an alliance at the beginning of the war but Hitler turned on the Soviets. ... Tensions stayed high in the Olympics, the space race, ICBM's, the Korean and Vietnam wars. ... 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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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. ... 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. ... After Vietnam had ended and time moved further on, the caustic nature of the debate be...

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To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ... At the end of the Second World War, whole countries were left in disarray and destruction. ... Yet another irony both super powers did not want another war to start but they were plunging themselves into another war the Cold War. ... A more direct method of gaining allies was the Truman Doctrine of 1946 which was used to justify support for any nation that the United States government believed was threatened by Communism during the Cold War period.2 It was the beginning of American policy for the cold war. ....

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... And the beginning of the clash of interests of the USSR and the USA in various parts of the globe, making the prospects of cooperation ghostly superpowers and actually marked the beginning of an era of confrontation. ... During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of ...

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However, it was not only Vietnam's lower level of development which lead to the cooperation between both states, but also the political system was much less distinct as Vietnam was just in the process of recovering from its recent war with the USA. ... Since the beginning of the 1970s, several bilateral contracts at colleges and technical colleges had been made between the two states, so that many young students from the SRV were sent to East Germany. ... Another example of solidarity support between the GDR and SRV was the ''Vietnam-Aktion'' of the 1960s. ... For Vie...

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The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it is still hard to ...

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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. ... Nasser was aware that he was a pawn in a war of far greater proportions and therefore emphasized the Cold War aspect in this imperial, regional crisis. ... This was followed through with construction beginning on the in 1958. ... Furthermore it is a prime example of Cold war behaviors and politics in order to gain geographic and cultural alliance, just as it was seen in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. ...

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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 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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Although victory seemed so close the strain on men and vehicles was beginning to tell. ... 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. ... The amounts of Russian tanks and planes being produced during the war increased during the war whereas German production declined. ...

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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. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China-North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union-China-North Korea. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan...

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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 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. ... On Tuesday October 23rd, the day after President Kennedy made his speech to the American people explaining the crisis, CIA Director John McCone reported that the Russians were beginning to camouflage the missile sites [p.36]. ... The Cold War was essentially a game ...

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After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ... The Cold War had begun. ... Meanwhile, members of Stalin's loyal, personally appointed Politburo were beginning to wonder if their le...

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Was occupied by Mongolia and suffered from Japanese expansion before World War the Second. From the beginning of 19th century China became a colony of the West and Great Britain in particular. ... Geopolitics of China at the beginning of the 21 century is based on preservation of economical and military power, increasing of its influential status in Asian Pacific region. ... In order to decrease the level of import government pay attention to the sea territories of 3 million square kilometers, on which also Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand are pretending. ...

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This sphere of interest became more specific and eventually led to a study of inconsistencies regarding historical justifications of Khrushchev's dismissal of war hero Marshall Zhukov. ... His writings on the Cultural Revolution are published amidst Western challenges to the Communist nations, such as Vietnam and North Korea, and the breaking down of ties between them, starting with the Hungarian revolt. ...

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