The Cold War was a war that literally wasn't your typical war. ... The Cold War was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR or modern day Russia). ... The Cold War was a real complicated war because it was more a fight about ideology, Democracy and Communism. ... The international level, at first had no effect in the Cold War, no other country or any international organization like the United Nations got involved in the Cold War. ... The most important levels of analysis in the origins of the Cold War would have to be th...

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The most characteristic feature of the Cold War, indeed the very reason behind the name, is that superpowers were afraid of the potential consequences between them, as epitomized by the fear of nuclear Armageddon.  ... The incessant need of both the Soviet Union and The United States to be the bigger better superpower of the Cold War has created serious repercussions such as defiance states, social movements, and backlashes; in the case of the United States, the Cold War foreign policy seemed to be a 'gift that keeps on giving.' ... Vietnam became a major defiance state that late...

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Wars have been won. Wars have been lost. ... Truman This quote from Harry Truman gave life to the beginning of the Cold War, which from 1945-1991 pitted the U.S. against the Soviet Communist nations. The Marshall Plan, which is what Truman is referring to in the above quote, was the catalyst, which set the stage for over 45 years of "cold" war. ... The Korean War can be divided into three phases. ...

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This was an example of the fight of the cold war. ... During the Cold war fight against communism many groups began to demand rights. ... Native American activists defeated a well organized campaign for termination by using a Cold War claim to indigenous patriotism.The material and moral aspects of the Cold War helped with the forming of both Native Americans' plans and ideas to fight termination legislation and their understanding of Marshall Plan aid for Europe, and the Point Four aid for underdeveloped countries. ... Native American used these feelings of WWI and the Cold War to fight ...

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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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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 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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The Vietnam war was fought in 1955 to 1975, and the Australian military fought in it from 1962 to 1973, and at the time, it was the longest that Australia had participated in all-out war. ... There are many contributing factors for the beginning of the Vietnam War which was all linked to the Cold War. The term ˜Cold War' refers to the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) which began after World War II through suspicions and hate between the two superpowers. ... Before World War II Vietnam was part of the French Empire and after the war were given con...

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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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The media has brought wars like the Vietnam War and the gulf war to our living rooms and has provided coverage of military conflicts since the 1960's. ... The media has covered many military conflicts such as the Vietnam War, the gulf war, the cold war and many other war's. ... More than before television showed the horrors of war and it brought the war to peoples living rooms during the Vietnam War. ... The media also played a role in the cold war; it was a tool of propaganda in the cold war. ... The medias role in this military conflict was also to provide coverage of conflicts in ...

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Nixon "I don't see why we need some fancy French word in dealing with the Russians; we already have a word for it- Cold War.... Prior to Détente and the Nixon Administration, the American foreign policy that predominated during the Cold War was the strategy of containment. ... Secondly, certain facets of the war raised questions about the moral self-righteousness that had previously sustained American policy all through the period of the cold war. ... The war cracked the campaign of ant-communism which had been the preeminent ideology throughout the cold war, and which was mad...

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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 numerous conflicts of the war and peace produced writers who sometimes chose to concentrate their writing on the horrifying effects and worthlessness of war. ... Just like Owen, Jarrell shows the horrific aspect of war in his poem and he is giving us an insight into war. ... The last line of the poem is conceivably the best graphic picture to portray the cruelty and the coldness of war, when he states that "when I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" (551).From the ambiguity of this line we can understand at least two meanings at once. ... Sadness goes hand in han...

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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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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 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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The longest war in American history, (besides the Iraq War), and probably one of the most controversial events in American history as a whole, the Vietnam war divided our country and resulted in over 58,000 American causalities. ... Because of the Cold War, the United States believed that the Soviet Union was responsible for any communism in any country, and that the goal of this was to envelope the entire world in communism and wipe out capitalism and democracy. ... That is exactly what the U.S. did in the case of the Vietnam Civil War. ... This was only one failed military tactic during the ...

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The fear of Communism crept in continuously throughout the Cold War. ... The fear and paranoia of Communism did not destruct after the Cold War. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ...

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Although not technically a declared war, it was the longest conflict in the United States history. ... It was the first war televised, making people more aware of what was happening overseas. ... Never in history has so much power been used so ineffectively as in the war in Vietnam. ... With the Cold War, the United States had promised to keep communism from spreading. ... The bigger issue was the Cold War. ...

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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 war traced its origins to before the Cold War and even before World War II. ... Eisenhower's advisors after calculating the forces necessary to win the war were perceptive enough to convince him to keep the U.S. out of the Indochina war. ... A war of guerillas and insurgents, a war fought in ambushes not traditional combat. ... The Vietnam War was not a very popular war with the American people and due to the prolonged United States involvement the number of people against it grew. ... The Vietnam War was the first war in the history of the United States to be fought on foreign and d...

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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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Finally, and most sadly, he must feel guilt over having lived through the war while other did not. ... In the poem, the wall is used as at times a window into the speaker's grief about the war, a reflection of his sadness. ... His face fading shows that the former soldier is struggling with guilt over the war. ... He feels guilt over having survived the war when 58, 022 other soldiers died. ... That stone, the black granite, is hard, cold stone, just like the hard cold war. ...

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... When direct American troop involvement in Vietnam turned into a hard cold reality, our military planners looked to prior war experiences to help alleviate the problem of psychological disorder in combat. ... One important fact about the Vietnam War was that it was America's first true integrated war. Women have fought in all of America's wars, even though it might have been unofficial in some of the earliest wars. ... In World War II and almost every other war in United States military history, our...

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