The United States and the Soviet Union were equal in power and were on the brink of a nuclear war. ... War broke out along the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. ... The Korean war was a tremendous part of The Cold War. This war would eventually lead to a stalemate and reach a cease fire. ... The events of The Cold War along with the fight against Communism were set in motion to preserve the liberties and freedoms of everyone in the world, which American's so highly value....

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The Korean War 1950-1953 was the first proxy conflict of the Cold War costing 5 million lives, 54,000 of which were American soldiers, yet it has often been described as America's, "forgotten war." Thus, eluding to the idea that it was not as significant to world affairs or security as other conflicts during the Cold War such as in Vietnam. ... " This essay shall evaluate how significant the American government perceived the Korean War to be to global security by analysing key documents from the early war period such as daily summaries in addition to key speeches and NSC 68 and 48/2...

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The Cold War could be referred to as the "battle of ideas" because they never had an actual declared winner. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... The largest bomb uses in the Cold War was about six to ten tons. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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This feud led to the Cold War which didn't really consist of official battles, but more of disagreements and uncompromisable disputes. ... At the end of World War II, Germany was split into 4 zones controlled by the British in the northwest, French in the west, America in the south, and Soviet Union in the east. ... Luckily, the conflict was ended with no war and compromise was achieved quickly. During the Cold War, Americans were terrified of the Soviet Union and left with no knowledge of whether or not the Soviets would attack the US. ... If the Soviets tried to force communist views o...

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The Cold War is a good example of the United States working with others in order to protect against the spread of communism. It was called The Cold War because there wasn't ever an actual face to face conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (New World Encyclopedia). Do you think the policies of the United States were justified during the Cold War? The foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War had support due to the direct conflict of goals of the U.S. and how the spread of communism could prove dangerous for Americans. ... Cold War policies due to the fear...

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I knew that it was a war between North and South Korea both receiving outside assistance in the war. ... Even 60 years after the war, the cause and course of the war is debated among many scholars. ... This theory is not a hard one to accept seeing how the United States and the Soviet Union were just coming of the Cold War, which in courage mistrust amongst each other. ... Following the Cold War, mistrust between the Soviet Union and the United States still ran high and both Kim Il-Sung and Rhee played off of those fears to get what they want despite the fact that both Stalin and Truman were r...

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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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After the cold war had ended, the world had transitioned from bipolarity to a world of many independent nations fighting for hegemony. ... According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Korea has allied with the United States ever since the nuclear war and has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. ...

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Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Korean War became the first American war ever waged solely as an ideological war. ... The Korean War was extremely popular domestically because it was part of the Cold War. The Cold War was a result of World War Two, it caused the two ideologies, capitalism and communism to each struggle for control over the Post war world. ... "In August 1964, on the pretext of a North Vietnamese attack on U.S naval craft off the North Vietnamese coast, Johnson ordered air attacks on commun...

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The U.S sent 5,720,000 troops to aid South Korea in the war. ... Before and after the war, the Soviets had firm roots in North Korea. ... Eisenhower made efforts to ease Cold War tensions constantly. He promised to end the Korean War and did exactly that. ... The Korean War gave America a very important military presence in Asia. ...

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Gina Ferraro History 137 THE VIET NAM WAR REPRESENTED THE POWER OF AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT TO WAGE WAR WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF CONGRESS? I agree that the Viet Nam War represented the power of an American president to wage war without the consent of congress. ... Kennedy inherited the Cold War policy from President's Truman and Eisenhower and was determined to stop the spread of communism. ... Johnson used the powers given to him by congress to wage the war without declaring war and congress did very little to impede or interfere with the administrations war policy toward Viet ...

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The cold war had affected the United States because the fear of communist conspiracy took over the nation and many citizens didn't want to go back to war. ... The Cold War also frightened Americans to the point that they changed their way of life. ... But many feared that the Cold War was going to become violent. ... The Cold War also made the government spend more money on defense then it ever has. ... This was one affect, of many, that the Cold War had on American society. ...

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At the peak of the Cold War, the war in Vietnam was a catalyst to the strong emergence of counterculture. ... Many thought it was a "morally ambiguous conflict from the start, ostensibly a war against communism yet also a war to suppress nationalist self-determination." This war was also the first to be televised. Even though Americans at home could see the war from a new perspective, they were poorly informed due to the biased media that reported not only events, but their opposition towards the war. ... Since the start of the Vietnam War, a new form of counterculture had been bre...

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The Nature of War War is part of God's world-order. ... The Cold War was in full force and the American government felt it needed to stop the spreading Communism in South East Asia. ... War is part of God's world-order, in war all man's evil desires are unleashed upon the enemy. War is an evil act, and can change any man. All forms of war should be stopped. ...

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"The Manchurian Candidate" In the 1960's the Cold war paranoia of communism affected the lives of everyday people. ... The Cold war era was a time of fear and the first time the Americans felt threatened by a country that matched our abilities and power. ... This film accurately displays cold war paranoia. ...

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The Vietnam War was also another event that shaped the way Americans viewed war and how they viewed the rest of the world. ... During the cold war the Cuban missile crisis was one of the most important events happening in the news at that time. ... America was fighting a war over in Vietnam during the 70's against communism. ... Many anti-war demonstrations were being held everywhere in the United States. ... From the Vietnam War being the first televised war, to the United States spy plane being *censored* down over China, the media is a big influence on how we view the world. ...

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Almost instantly after the end of World War Two, the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began to tear away at the thin bond formed by the two counties" alliance in the war. ... The anti-Communist hysteria that was taking control of the U.S. came as a result of many different factors following the end of World War Two. ... Also Miller refers to the cold war era as one of "ideological warfare." By this statement, Miller means that while there was no actual war occurring, the ideas of communism and socialism were enough to breed paranoia throughout the United States. ... Sinc...

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He came across as a bitter, cold-hearted person but in actuality was probably the character that felt the most in the book. ... Pyle was the most unlikeable character because of he was two-faced, and because of his cold inhumane actions. ... It does however add to my understanding of events that happened in the war before US involvement. ... This in turn, opened a lot of Americans eye's to Vietnam and to the war in Indo-China. Which had not been something many people were concerned about, on account of the Cold war. ...

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There would be no stand still cold war that developed later on because at that point we would be the inferior nation. ... If this never occurred we would have never been involved in the Korean War which was a complete slaughter of innocent American soldiers forced to fight for freedom. Shall we not mention the destruction of our country, and soldiers and families with the drawn out saga of the Vietnam War. ...

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Army Air Force during World War II. ... It is through Yossarian that Heller conveys a sense of his own experience in war and his own fear of dying in combat. The realism and entertaining effect brought by Heller's use of his own experiences attracted an unlikely audience to his anti-war novel, WWII veterans. ... He uses anachronisms such as computers and helicopters to make people think of the Korean War as well as World War II. Heller thought that the Cold War era was far from being an ideal, peaceful time and was filled with tensions and paranoia (Telgen 104). ...

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Coming out of World War II, the government of the United States fostered an inflated view of its capabilities in foreign affairs. ... Mecklin proves this to be the case when he states how these beliefs were reaffirmed when the Americans had arrived there, since "among most of the ten million people of rural South Vietnam, terms like democracy, Communism, imperialism, and Cold War were meaningless," (Mecklin 4). ... For Hoopes, a fighter pilot in the latter years of the Vietnam War, it was clear that what constituted victory and defeat was not shared equally by both sides, since the Americans...

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Canada's role and actions in the Korean war were justified. ... By comparing North Korea's and South Korea's current predicaments, we can see the potential future for the Korean peninsula, if it had been conquered in the war. ... The communist forces were committing war crimes throughout their campaign. ... The soldiers proceeded to murder each UN soldier with American M-1 rifles loaded with armor piercing rounds in cold blood. ... Canada's role and actions in the Korean war were justified. ...

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We could no longer depend on Britain for our defence, and the Cold war between U.S.S.R and the United States was threatening a global nuclear war. ... The ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, and the United States) treaty was created in 1951 after concerns about post war Asia. ... The Korean war began in 1950, and carried on until 1953. ... New Zealand was asked to provide assistance in the Vietnam War by SEATO, but also were somewhat pressured by the United States. ...

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Due to a multitude of reasons, the United States suddenly found themselves on the verge of a war against Communism on Korean soil. ... This internal pressure was a direct result of the intense tensions revolving around cold war era politics. ... This struck fear into the hearts of Americans, as seen in NSC-68, a military report on military power in the U.S. and USSR which called for increased military spending to combat communism; "This excessive strength, coupled now with an atomic capability, provides the Soviet Union with great coercive power for use in time of peace in furtherance of...

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Then at the end of World War II, Japanese again abused Korea with forced labor. ... While trying to unify the nation back together the cold war begins and stopped all talks and Korea was never unified again. With unification out of the way North Korea decided to make a surprise attack in 1950 which started the Korean War. ... North Korea then also decides to post pone plans of reuniting families that were separated during the Korean War. ... In September of 2002 thousands of Korean families who were split during the Korean War were now meeting for the first time. ...

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