In my essay I will examine the consequences of those events and suggest other ideas on the origins of the Cold War. We should also take into account that there are several different theories and ways of looking at the origins of the Cold War. ... Although, I personally would agree that the policies of the World War II played a significant role in shaping the international politics of the post - war world, and possibly could be blamed for the beginning of the Cold War. ... The Potsdam conference is sometimes seen as the actual beginning of the Cold War. ... If both sides had accepted these ...

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World wars impacted in a global scale, although world war 1 and world war 2 took place in a 20 year difference, they also have their similarities besides geographic place. ... World War 1 began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia. ... Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany. ... Cold War was a long period of tensions between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Easter Europe. ... After cold war ended 9/11 demonstrated that not everyone was content with the situation. ...

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World War I was an international war centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. ... Due to the savagery of war, Paul has immediately lost his humanitarian characteristics, and instead has transformed into a cold, merciless shell of the innocent boy he once was. ... Paul's cold-hearted and unrelentless tone portrays how cruel and inhumane he has become. ... Before the war, Paul was unfamiliar with the horrors and hardships of war, and easily connected to modern society. However, Paul has seen and committed too many barbarous and cold-blooded acts that he...

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This was the beginning of the First World War, a war that had never been seen before. ... The conditions in the trenches were terrible often very muddy and soldiers were always cold and wet. ... By the end of the war Germany had 80% of eligible men mobilized and even sent the wounded back out to the frontline to help in the war effort. ... By the end of the war women made up 37% of the workforce up from 26% when the war started. ... World War One was a war in which the world had never seen before and probably never sees again. ...

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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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The Prospectives of World War I In World War One many people had very different opinions on the War. ... He was also known as a very good poet and once said "My subject is war, and the pity of war. ... Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. ... Though these two men were very opinionated about the war nothing they said would change the way the war started or ended. ... It was seen as a good and bad war. ...

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Those three events were World War I, World War II and the Cold War. ... At the conclusion of the war, people??? ... After World War II, the Cold War emerged; it too popularized the theory of existentialism. The main reason for the Cold War was communism; existentialism was applied to support the system of communism. ... So, existentialism is popularized by the Cold War, in addition to World War II and World War I. ...

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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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Whether it be the Franco-Prussian war leading into The First World War because of Alsace and Lorraine, or The First World War leading into The Second World War because of unresolved conflicts and unimaginable ideas with Germany. ... World War I began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. ... The war in Europe was over, but the war in the Pacific was still unfinished. ... World War II was over. ... They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. ...

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Symbolically shows the two countries at war with each other, and how cold blooded Nazis are. ... The madman cold bloodedly shot and killed Joe and Hilda in front of Josh and Cassie. ... World War II began, On September 1, 1939. ... World War II had begun" ("World War II and the Holocaust" 1). ... World War II ended with over sixty million deaths. ...

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World War One was a global war centred in Europe which started in 1914 and lasted until 1918. ... The great amount of newly advanced military technology of the First World War shaped a war more of stalemate than anything else. ... Their were various tactics used in World War One to fight trench warfare. ... Trench foot was a form of fungus growth that occurred on the soldiers feet due to the continued exposure to damp, cold and unsanitary conditions. ... Although it was a war that lasted only four years, it created lifelong scars within soldiers that fought in trench warfare during World Wa...

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He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. ... Two years later, at the age of eighteen, he was almost expelled from school for disagreeing on whether it was necessary to defend his country in a time of war. During the First World War Brecht found himself working as an orderly in an emergency hospital until he was released from service having openly expressed a s...

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The Crimea war revealed Russia weakness and the importance to modernize to win future wars. ... Happening at the same time as the great world war 1914-1918, Russia however pulled out of the war, due to its unpopularity amongst the public. ... The war with Poland 1921-22 was won by help from France but also due to the NEP. ... so The started the Cold War with the division of Europe, with Communist Russia controlling the eastern half of Europe. Cold war/ Korean War 1945-65- As a counterbalance of NATO, the Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact in 1955.   ...

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For the most part the German officials in this movie seemed ruthless and cold. ... It is quite likely though, that in their stone cold faces, the Germans were feeling not only guilty but scared. ... All war is bad. In war people die. ... This is the nature of war. ...

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World War One was a global war centred in Europe which started in 1914 and lasted until 1918. ... The great amount of newly advanced military technology of the First World War shaped a war more of stalemate than anything else. ... Their were various tactics used in World War One to fight trench warfare. ... Trench foot was a form of fungus growth that occurred on the soldiers feet due to the continued exposure to damp, cold and unsanitary conditions. ... Although it was a war that lasted only four years, it created lifelong scars within soldiers that fought in trench warfare during World Wa...

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This essay will go into detail about the Canadian roles in World War I and World War 2. ... More than 60,000 Canadian soldiers died in World War I. ... The Canadian soldiers were sent to England for training, the trained on the Salisbury Plains through a long cold and harsh winter. ... Meanwhile, in the air war, Canada had not been absent. ... The Canadian Navy expanded dramatically through the war, at the beginning of the war, the navy had 13 vessels and 3,000 active members. ...

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English history is wrought with bouts of war, famine and chaos and near destruction of all British livelihoods. ... The war of 1812 was a depiction of English relentless cling to the land that it had lost. ... Those at the conference also decided to meet recurrently after the conclusion of the war. ... Conflicts in both Korea and Vietnam have seen both American and British military powers fighting for the common cause of Containment fearing the overall Domino Effect of Communism that was ever prevalent in the Cold War. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar ...

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Gorbachev Mikhail Gorbachev was an important figure in history because of his willingness to end the Cold War and Communism as it was known in the 1980s. ... He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and helped bring an end to both the Soviet Union and the Cold War. ... After the tearing down of Russia, Europe as not broken out into war, thus making Gorbachev a key factor in European History. 2. ... Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpow...

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A poem written by the World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, is 'Exposure'. ... This shows that the cold is physically hurting them by giving them sore heads. ... It allows us to appreciate how cold the men must have been, due to this violent wind. ... "Gunnery rumbles, far off, like a dull rumour of some other war". ... This shows that even they don't know the purpose of the war, or why they are there. ...

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Prior to WW1, wars were generally not fought nonstop over the course of years, and that most of the soldiers in previous wars were professional mercenaries and war veterans. Now that this Great War is the complete antithesis of wars in the past, it had a profound effect on the minds of young men. ... This was because the war was born from nationalism. During this war, soldiers found themselves in utter boredom sitting idle in the cold, dirty trenches. ... This book illustrates the day and the life of a World War I trench warfare soldier....

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For example, after World War Two the United States, the United Kingdom and France all supported a democratic cultivation in China. ... Finally, the most unsustainable argument for military intervention: the theory that by beating down doors, other nations will somehow fear us and no longer go to war with us. ... One of the major causes of the first World War was militarism. ... During the Cold War, a trend was noticed nearly immediately in terms of the Nuclear Arms Race; as the United States peaked in weapons manufacturing, the U.S.S.R soon followed suit. ... In a hearing to the State Defense ...

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The use of biological warfare started to spread in the first World War. Both sides of the war used these agents for tactical purposes. ... During the cold war, many nations began experimenting and stockpiling biological and chemical weapons. ... The Hague Conference of 1899 made an attempt to outlaw weapons containing poisonous gases but when World War I came around, In Geneva in 1925 a League of Nations protocol against chemical and biological war was signed; it was not, however, ratified by the United States until 1975. ...

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Many years were spent fighting wars. Even in times of peace, war was still anticipated, and thus kept everyone prepared for war. ... Instead of constant hostility and preparing for war, people of this era sought to prevent future wars. ... The Napoleonic wars, which ended in 1816, were the first wars of the people. ... The Cold War saw an unparalleled build of arms. ...

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Throughout World War I increased engine power made faster flight and larger aircraft possible, however the transportation industry went down do to skeptical feelings towards the new invention and that people only associated planes with surveillance, bombing runs, and aerial dogfights. After World War I the surplus of airplanes that were made for military usage caused multiple production companies to go bankrupt. ... Whenever tired he would stick his head out the window and take in the cold air to wake him as well as having a slight instability built into the plane to keep him awake and focused...

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