The Cold War can be described as a state of tension between countries in which each side develops policies that are made to strengthen it and weaken the other by falling short by actual war. However, the Cold War beginning in 1947 was more of a verbal war, which was mainly fought through newspapers, magazines, radio and other propaganda methods. ... Military issues prevailed during the development of the cold war leading to the fear of many people. ... There were a number of economic impacts that significantly resulted in the lead up to the cold war. ... These ideas contributed greatly towards...

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The cold war started before the World War had ended. ... They had requested much money from America to help defer war costs. ... The soviets were very stubborn during the end of the war, and the period following it. ... The Cold War was now at hand. The main causes of the cold war were fear and greed. ...

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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. ... Another problem with the Cold war is that because it is a vague term, there is no actual start date to the war. ... In order to describe the causes of the Cold War, it is important to fully understand what the Cold War actually means. The term "Cold War" means a war fought on every front except actual fighting. ... It is possible to say that the Cold War was a war of Communism versus Capitalism. ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Initially, symbolizing her "Yalta-Potsdam order" associated rather with "conspiracy stronger than their opposition," but this trend has not received further development in international relations, despite the fact that it is possible to maintain the relationship between the two folding camp on verge of a "cold peace," without giving him slip to the "cold war." ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be finan...

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The Cold War A war that has created controversy amongst two of the greatest world leaders, United States of America and The Soviet Union, is known as The Cold War. ... The Cold War began after the collapse of Germany in May 1945(http://www.coldwar.org/indexrus.html). The creation of the cold war came from the disagreements for postwar Europe and the Far East. ... The most visible part of the cold war was the arms race. ... Another way to prevent the Cold War from happening was when Hitler broke the treaty between Russia and Germany. ...

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The example of the United Sates after the Cold War is the most recent example of a unipolar world. ... As Nuno Montero (2011:11) says in his article Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful, "In all, the United States has been at war for thirteen of the twenty-two years since the end of the Cold War. ... In his article, The Long Peace, the End of the Cold War, and the Failure of Realism, the author Richard Ned Lebow (1994:252), mention the realist vision of Morgenthau, he says, "For Morgenthau, the long peace was not an analytical puzzle but a desperate hope. ... " 5This ...

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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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(RM, Springsteen 1949) The United State government was also concerned with possible communist spies gaining access to federal positions in different departments because of espionage activities held inside America with the aid of U.S. citizens, particularly during World War II (Red Scare). ... The committee gained tons of support when the United States entered the Cold War. ... (Red Scare) All these policies and accusations show just how concerned the federal government was during the Cold War, and the American people were no different. ... In 1945, involvement in Vietnam by the United States...

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Not just empire's but events such as the cold war, WII or even the crusades have brought and gave new revolutionary inventions and equipment. ... The Roman Empire brought a fascinating range of languages as well as that they also used these languages to communicate with each other during war so their enemy wouldn't understand what they were attempting to plot. ... After the period of the crusades, after WWI and WWII there was a Cold War. ... The cold war also saw a revelation in tanks as the most developed main battle tanks with harder shelters and a greater range in shooting power w...

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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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The Cold War is a term used to describe the period of non-violent conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, between the mid-1940s and lasted until the early 1990s. ... The question of a second front during World War II laid the foundation for this mistrust. In order to understand the Cold War, one must understand Soviet motives for expansion following the WWII and the consequences of such expansion, most importantly in regards to Poland, all of which will be examined. ... A root cause of this mistrust began during the Second World War. ... Tho...

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The threat of a nuclear war is greater now that the cold war is over because, more nations have nuclear warheads, the smuggling of nuclear materials is on the rise, and nuclear treaties are ineffective. ... The mutual deterrence that existed during the cold war, because instead of two parties fighting for the world you now have numerous parties trying to defend their own interests inside of their own area. ... The war there is not a cold war. ... Many treaties are out of date because they were drafted during the cold war and apply only to the United States and Russia. ... The threat of a N...

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Through the early years of the cold war Americans believed that nuclear weapons were war fighting tools that were likely to be used in an international conflict involving both the US and the Soviet Union; however, nuclear weapons were not used on China during the Korean War for fear that the Soviet Union might retaliate with a nuclear weapons attack on the U.S. ... At that point, nuclear weapons were no longer weapons of war, they were political tools useful for avoiding nuclear war and manipulating domestic and international politics. ... During the 20 year period prior to the end of the co...

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The Manhattan Project was such an important project because it not only ended World War II but it brought the world into the nuclear age and the new era of the cold war. ... The United States entered the war in the midst of the greatest economic depression the country had ever seen and ended the war as an international superpower with atomic capabilities. ... The Manhattan Project not only ended the largest and most destructive war in a decisive manor, it also shaped world politics throughout the cold war. ... However, since the United States was and remains the only nation to have actually ...

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When we look at music that was written before the height of Vietnam War we can see that some people are already opposed to war. ... This lack of patriotism is explained in "Masters of War."... In "Talkin" World War III Blues" (lyrics) Dylan offers a humorous look at nuclear war. ... I think it may be a way for Dylan to deal with his fears during the cold war, by trivializing the what situation would be like after a nuclear war. It is sort of scary looking at this from a stand point of not being alive during the cold war. ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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Nonetheless there the Chemical Weapons Convention which first sat in 1972 during the Cold War bans the use stockpile, development, production, and sale of these weapons; this has been ratified by more than seventy nations. ... When India tested a nuclear explosion, Pakistan answered immediately with a test resembling an almost Cold War standoff. ... If this were to be so, India would have to stockpile enough nuclear arms to keep up with Pakistan similar to the Cold War syndrome involving US and Russia, "Pakistan might in relation to India inherit the role of the Soviet Union in relation to th...

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Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) is a movie that takes place in the early 1960's during the cold war. ... The film follows this genre by being about the 1960's Cold War, but having a comedic, twisted view of how the military works, especially in threatening situations. ... It also shows the tremendous technology of war, and the moral bankruptcy of a military theory, which can accept ten to twenty million casualties as a mere cost of war. ... The movie is about the Cold War period of the 1960's, when the United States and Soviet Union wer...

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Thankfully, operation downfall never became a reality because of the use of the atomic bomb, the atomic bomb gave Japan the unthinkable opportunity to immediately surrender, without this who knows how much longer they would have been at war. ... "In the first two decades of the Cold War, there were a number of occasions during which a form of atomic diplomacy was employed by either side of the conflict. ... During the Korean War, President Truman once again deployed the B-29s to signal U.S. resolve," (https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/atomic). Although there were many...

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The United Nations was born into a world of divide from its birth post World War Two in 1945. ... One of the fundamental problems that faces and has faced the United Nations as a worldwide organisation has been the divides within it, largely between regions of its member states, often rendering it particularly in the Cold War era in a position of stalemate. The Cold War ensured that matters of international peace were not centred around the United Nations as was originally intended. At this time it was the two major superpowers of the East and West that largely control international peace and ...

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To prove the accuracy of this definition this paper will define power, examine the natural state of man, and draw on the cold war to further demonstrate the validity of this theory. ... While the preceding paragraphs outline the definition of power and examine the nature of man, further confirmation may be established by looking at the Cold War, explicitly the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The events leading up to the cold war were several shifts in power resulting from WWI and WWII. ... The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most dangerous passage of the Cold War it was problematic not only be...

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This was probably due to the Cold War which created a general paranoia of anything not American, as well as the infamous Roswell spacecraft crash in 1947, which heightened an already large fascination with UFOs. ... These included such classics as "The Day The Earth Stood Still", "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers", "It Came From Outer Space", "The War Of The Worlds" as well as many more. ... However, such subject matter was undoubtedly heavily influenced by Cold War politics. The war of words between America and Russia contributed to suspicion and paranoia of anything "un-American". ... The pros...

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After the Cold War there have been many concerns that the Federal Budget should be increased and many others believe it should be decreased. ... With the Cold War over and Russia going through the financial and military changes it is going through, I think the federal budget should be shifted and rearranged within it. ... This doesn't make it a good idea to make too many more defense cuts as we already have since the Cold War ended. ... The Third World countries being the origin of the new war, the War on Terrorism, this proposes a different type of defense. ... The war we have been d...

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At the end of the Cold War in 1989, the threat of nuclear war was reduced. ... Russia and China) may see it as a threat because they lose the only leverage they have with the U.S and break ties with the U.S, and It may start another cold war where all the nations race to create bigger and better defense systems or weapons stronger than the existing systems. ... The Bay of Pigs conflict in 1962 started the Cuban Missile Crisis which essentially started the cold war between the USSR and the U.S. ... The U.S is saying the system is to protect from its current enemies so a cold war will not break ...

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