-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... Revisionists challenged the orthodox idea that U.S foreign policy after World War II was anything but righteous and compassionate; on the contrary, revisionist scholars saw eagerness by the US to promote its own securities abroad. ... As would be expected, the period during the 1960's and 1970's, the debate over the origins of the Cold War between ...

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The Cold War did affect the American's way of life. ... When the men all came back from World War II, many women lost their jobs and weren't as active as they were during the time of WWII. ... The Red Scare started back a few years before the 1920s and went away relatively for awhile during World War II. ... Another aspect of entertainment influenced by the cold war was music. ... Elvis, though not directly in his songs, was influenced by the Cold War. ...

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While the end of World War II brought peace and prosperity to most Americans, it also created a heightened state of tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... At this time, North and South Korea were set to have an election that would eventually reunify them sometime after World War II. ... 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. ...

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"The cold war was the inevitable global conflict between capitalism and communism" Since 1945 to 1991 the world faced a non-violent war know as the Cold War. ... To begin with, The Cold War was a struggle between conflicting universal values. ... Conflict between the two opposing victors of World War II was inevitable. However, the war could be avoided at some time. ... If both sides had accepted these new spheres of influence, a cold war might never have occurred. ...

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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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The Cold War is a difficult term to define. ... 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. ... During World War II, Russia and the U.S had always had to be allies and work closely together, in order to be successful in a common goal: the defeat of Nazi occupation throughout the war. ... Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause of a possible next World W...

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Following the economic whiplash World War II had on all European countries, leaving many with an a completely taxed economy and slow progress for return; An American man by the name of George Marshall penned the Marshall Plan in 1947, otherwise known as ERP (European Recovery Program) which was instated to lend American money to European countries in order to speed along the recovery for many. ... After the war, the countryside was battered and broken looking for a reliable government to run them, and economic aid to help the post-war rebuild; which the soviet union was quick to provide as man...

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The founder of North Korea, Kim II Sung created the policy of juche, which means "self-reliance. " This ideology has been the main reason for North Korea's isolation from the rest of the world, and can also be the reason for many of its conflicts. ... North Korea is constantly in conflict with other nations, and was almost the reason for World War III, through the Korean War. ... The 38th parallel was an imaginary line chosen by the United States military following World War II. ... The United States entered the war because they feared it turning into a bigger war involving the takeover o...

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They have no sense of why they are even in this war; this is not their war to fight. ... The men understand that this war is real, people will die. ... The Vietnam War is unlike any war the United States of America has ever participated in. ... To them there is no great purpose in this war as in The Revolutionary War or World War II. ... Both show the war to be largely pointless, at least in the end. ...

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After World War II, China was in a deep state of hardship, which certainly left space for improvement. ... However, due to poor leadership and questionable motives, Mao built a horrendous foundation for the post World War II China. ... Due to the devastating battles in World War II, China was in desperate need for a leader that could lead them out of the depression. ... Ultimately, due to the over powerful Communist party and Mao Zedong, China wasn't rebuilt properly after the wars and neither led to a free or fair society....

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This war was a war that they fought in their minds and in their hearts. ... The veterans of World War II spent weeks or in extreme cases even months with their respective units returning on ships, or planes from all over the world. ... 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 military was ...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... During World War II for the US economy were truly "golden": with the beginning of military operations from Europe to America poured a huge flow of capital greatly stimulated its economic growth. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 th...

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Those three events were World War I, World War II and the Cold War. ... World War II also boosted the popularity of existentialism. ... Therefore, popularizing the theory of existentialism, through its relevance to World War II. After World War II, the Cold War emerged; it too popularized the theory of existentialism. ... So, existentialism is popularized by the Cold War, in addition to World War II and World War I. ...

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Both of these wars were expensive, the Korean War cost the US $67 billion and Vietnam cost $140 billion . ... The Americans took this act as a sign that Kim II Sung was utilising a communist take-over, thus in October of the same year America, with UN sanction, invaded North Korea. 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 ...

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They highlight the radical difference in opinion they had on the war. ... Other themes include anti-war, communism, and inhumanity. ... " Here, it is emphasized that our nation was power hungry to end all fighting after emerging victorious in World War II. ... They didn't lose loved ones to the war because their power probably protected their families from having to be involved in the war. ... World War II strengthened our economy and brought us out of the Great Depression. ...

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There is no such thing as ethnic war 1. ... In terms of emphasis and concern, it came into prominence in the field of International Relations after the World War II era- with the emergence of many new independent countries, and especially after the cold war period- in the pursuit of seeking correlation between instability or conflict in some regional systems with that of ethnic elements of those regional systems. ... In the post-World War II era, increasing patterns of global interdepence in economic affairs, communication and transportation systems, and the penetratio...

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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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Past historic events from World War II with Adolf Hitler, at Munich in 1938, displayed that if aggression is not immediately handled the aggressors become more encouraged. ... Former Vietnam veterans even supported to end the war. ... This war was not traditional fighting. ... This war was guerrilla war. ... This war should have never involved the United States. ...

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The Red Scare was a political and social phenomenon that overcame the United States shortly after the First World War, which ended in late 1918. During World War I, an extreme patriotism took hold in the United States. Anyone who did not demonstrate the strong patriotic beliefs and attitudes that pushed the country into the war were looked on with suspicion and dislike. This was especially true when it came to those Americans that were against the war and the U.S, involvement. ... Another event that occurred during World War I, and continued in the immediate years following the war, was the Ru...

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The Stop of the Iron Curtain After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union certainly had different goals and aims. ... All of these things did in fact lead to the end of the Cold War. If the United States did not show how serious they were about stopping communism, the movement could have gone too far, just like Hitler's movement did during World War II. If Hitler had been challenged early, they were convinced, the carnage of World War II might have been avoided. ... "The devotion to Marxism, the attack against capitalism, and the often repeated desire to provoke Com...

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By the end of World War II, most had withdrawn, though some were still communist party members. 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. ... As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelters to protect themselves when the war started (D5). ... For four decades, American citizens have been faced with numerous hardships like World War I, the Depression, World War II, and the Korean War. After World War II, many people were glad to be home with their ev...

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The Communist Party was formed in 1920, but had very small membership and limited influence in the trade unions until World War II. ... At the occurrence of World War II, communists were instructed to oppose the war effort. ... At the end of World War II, the CPA was in a position to influence unions and workers" movements. ... This was a war of words and therefore was called Cold War. ... Conflict to the war grew in 1967 and a strong anti-Vietnam War movement began to develop in 1968. ...

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Moreover, the book also depicts the differences between the Vietnam War and other wars such as the World Wars, the Revolutionary war, and Civil War in the history of America. For instance, the Vietnam War is the most costly war ever fought in American history; more than the world wars and the civil war in which American soldiers fought. ... This war, in particular, was very unique. ... The Vietnam War is thus more vivid among Americans than any other war, due to the media. ... This war was highly publicized. ...

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Through the main character of the novel, Orwell was able to predict World War II through the "humming of the aeroplanes and the crash of bombs squadron after squadron darkening the sky like gnats"( ). ... The novel "Coming Up for Air" was full of disgust and despair at the failure of the European intelligentsia to realize the dangers that he saw looming desperately close, which was again a prediction of World War II(13). ... For example, Orwell lived through both world wars and experienced great patriotism as a boy toward WWI and as WWII approached, he warned people about the upcoming w...

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Totalitarianism was exposed in World War II as a system that annihilates any trace of human individuality by indoctrination; this is with the final goal of justifying any atrocity: everything is possible. ...

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