The Cold War was dominated by fear. ... At the root of the Cold War was the American fear of the spread of communism throughout Europe, Asia, Latin America and eventually mainland USA. ... As the Cold War progressed, both nations practiced nuclear proliferation, amassing deadly nuclear weapons in preparation for a war to end all wars. The biggest question on everyone's mind as the Cold war threat progressed was rather simple: "Who will strike first?... Fortunately for pacifists, there was a reason that the war was "Cold". ...

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I"m against any war, and Vietnam War is no exception. ... First American military aid arrived on South Vietnam soil in 1955, just on the rising wake of cold war. ... Cold war begins to escalade dramatically from 1951. ... During cold war world split into two blocks, each of them maintaining existing order and recruit new members. As Sergei Khrushchev in his interview to CNN about Cold War comment Soviet crackdown of Hungarian revolt: "don't see any contradiction because it was the peak of the Cold War and the Americans tried to support the order in their side of the world." ...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ... This war also ended the agreement with the foreign policy of the Cold War and made many Americans more concerned about other actions of their government oversea...

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The Korean War The Korean War lasted three years. ... This war was also known as the biggest war of the modern era (Rees 2). ... This invasion started the Korean War. ... Take into account the bombing, lack of medical facilities/shelter, lack in food, the extreme cold weather, and absolute fear that the country of Korea had to endure for three years. ... While women were allowed to participate in military events the Korean War in some ways forced women to be a big part of the Korean War and Wars in general! ...

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The Vietnam War was also a part of the Cold War, and the ongoing 'war' between the US and the Soviet Union. Photographers have been a part of wars for decades however the Vietnam War was the first war that was shot and actually shown to the people at home on a daily basis. ... The definition of a cold war is an 'intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict,' (Dictionary.com, 2014), and in this context the nations were the Soviet Union and the USA. The Vietnam War was a result of the Cold War between the two co...

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South Koreans had little weapons and military because the Korean War took place soon after World War 2. ... The South Koreans didn't have the correct clothing to withstand the cold temperatures. ... People began calling the Korean War, "The No-Win War," ""Truman's War" "and"The Democrats War."" ... Compared to these major wars, the Korean War wasn't as important at the time. ... World War 2 ended in 1945 and the Korean War started in 1950. ...

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This was the first time in the war that the American troops the offensive position. ... Koreans had no respect for the rules and ethics of war. ... An accident turns the war when Matthew Ridgeway replaces Walton walker after a car accident. ... His troops were cold and hungry, and replacements were ill-equipped and untrained. ... To this day, Korea is still split at the 38th parallel, and the war ended with no proof that the war was even worth fighting. ...

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The five conflicts that show the most common action of the real reason why we invaded are: World War Two, the Cold War, Korean War, Vietnam, and Operation Iraq. Some of the foreign policies that fit these wars are: the Kellog-Braind Act, Yalta Conference, Cold War Containment Policy, and the SALT Treaties. ... I see "The Cold War Containment Policy" as the powder keg that started the black cloud of secrecy known as, The Cold War. ... The outcome of the Cold War was that Korea and Vietnam both gave into Communism, and wars were started because of this converting. ... This thinking can lead us...

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Baring in mind that the war occurred at the height of the cold war and the propaganda was quite strong; there was an overall distrust of communism and the East. ... This war became known as the T.V war. ... This turned the cold war into a three-way distrust from a two way one. All the countries had good reasons to want a warming of the cold war: America wanted to separate the USSR and China, as together they were too much of a threat to America. ... This was not to mean the cold war was over, the nuclear arms race with the USSR continued, but it did mean that the Vietnam War was drawing to an ...

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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THE THINGS THEY CARRIED (by Tim O'Brien) The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O'Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. ... They'd been close buddies, the tightest, and he remembered how last night they had huddled together under their ponchos, the rain cold and steady, the water rising to their knees, but how Kiowa had just laughed it off and said they should concentrate on better things. ... If this happened while he was in the battlefield, the Narrator might not have survived the war....

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Through viewing China's foreign policy under the CCP from 1949 to 1991 in the context of the Cold War, it can be seen that China's hostile relationship with the liberal-capitalist USA was brought upon by China's strive for hegemony and the clashing of capitalist vs. communist ideologies through different foreign policies. ... In the post-Cold War world no power can challenge the US. ... However, the Vietnam War generated more debate and controversy than that of any other war in history between the great rival ideologies of communism and capitalism. ... Map showing who were suppo...

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The overreaction to possibility of Soviet danger only fueled the fire of the rising Cold War and the rising fears the west believed about Russia. ... Rhee's regime was the trigger to kicking off the Korean War. ... Several reasons backed Truman in entering the Korean War. ... The rising tensions of the Cold War could have been yet another factor in the American's involvement in the Korean War. ... The midst of the Korean War, almost all of South Korea was t...

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Korea has earned the distinction of being called by many authors the bloodiest campaign ever fought during the Cold War. Not officially a war at all Korea was the first conflict of its kind, it changed the policy of how America would fight its future wars. ... Appearing to have proven responsible leadership Bushes war began. ... Like the Presidents before him Bush upheld Americas policy of limited war. Vietnam, Kosovo, Bosnia, and even the Gulf War indicate that America's policy on how their wars will be fought has been ever changed. ...

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This was the year in which World War 2 began in the region, during the period of Japanese expansion. ... World War 2 did not change Australian attitudes so much as it reinforced them. ... The reason the USA was against communism was because it was during the Cold War in which the two major powers in the world, Russia, which was communist, and USA, which was democratic, seriously distrusted each other. ... Since these wars communism has died out as a threat to the region. ... The changes did not come directly after the war, because the war only served to harden the attitudes of the Australian p...

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