The acts of the CIA and the aid that was given to Pakistan did not create the hatred, it simply gave the spark needed to set fire to the integral beliefs of Muslim ideology. ... America feared the Communist movement and wanted to stop its infiltration into Pakistan by leveraging the locals and giving them everything and anything they need to resist Russia. The United States didn't put enough thought into their actions and used powerful words to define the anti-communist movement that would have severe blow back. ... In order to defeat the communists, the United States decided to obtain a...

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For the officially defined period of forty five years the US and the USSR have been in the state of war; however no direct confrontations ever emerged between them on either territory. Each state had its ideological mission, its networks of alliances and third war clients, and its deadly arsenal of nuclear weapons. ... The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies of the World War II, others would say that the mistrust between the two started with the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and communists gaining power. ... Two superpowers with a compl...

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Firstly, the nation of Canada' must be defined. ... Secondly the word Independent' must be defined, Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary defines it as: Not governed by a foreign power; self-governing. ... Finally and most importantly Foreign policy must be defined. ... The second case study which will be examined is Canada's relationship with both communist and capitalist countries during the Cold War. ... Canada also maintained a strong relationship with China while under communist rule. ...

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What manifested was an unprecedented conflict of ideological misunderstandings, broken promises, suspicions, and changing players (i.e. deaths of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin). ... They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... The central theme in much of traditionalist historiography was an ideological one: the United States, confr...

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(Grimm, 2013) Through his speeches he repeated his anti-Communist policy that Soviets and Communism, as a whole, would fail. ... The Soviet Union no longer standing the type of threat it once did Reagan and his anti-communist attitude and mentality still did not let up. ... Reagan was not a fan of communism, he was an anti-communist. He did not accept it, an always had his eyes on communist. ...

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Power can be defined as the right to exert control over a certain group of people or objects (Merriam-Webster, 2014). ... Hard power can be defined as a nation's ability to use military force or economic incentives in order to influence the choices and behaviours of other nations (public diplomacy, 2013). ... Soft power was defined as the capability to get what is in the nation's best interest through the means of attraction rather than intimidation (Nye, 2004). ... Hitler began to invade European nations in hopes of spreading the Nazism ideology. ... In 1946, the United Kingdom had ...

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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 countries and is defined as 'a conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by the US, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North Vietnam' (Dictionary.com, 2014). ... So even though the Tet Off...

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