Cold War Essay

in World War II, the United States and the USSR were quick to forget any comradery that each felt for one and other during the war. Rather, after the completion of the war, the two sides pointed their barrels at their once allies and would remain in a defensive stalemate until the early 1990s. A bomb ended the war in Japan but set the stage for the Cold War. The use of the atom bomb and the inherent differences in political systems between America and Soviet Russia prompted this new war of…

Westad attempts to focus on how the Cold War played out in the Third World. The book develops how these interventions played out by pulling from a number of sources, to come to the conclusion that both countries, having emerged from the Cold War with a sense of destiny, attempted to remake Third World in each of their images, images they believed to be modern and progressive. This is evident…

The Influence of Gorbachev and Reagan on the Fall of Communism and the End of the Cold War The collapse of the Soviet empire in 1991 was a complex historical event, influenced by multiple leaders and movements. This essay will look at the influences of the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev and the American president Ronald Reagan. The importance and influence of the two on the fall of Communism is still a debated topic. A short overview of the ideas that academics have about the duo will be…

his famous March 8, 1983 speech. President Reagan described the Cold War as a “struggle between right and wrong, good and evil,” demonstrating his belief that the conflict between the West and the Soviet Union was a moral conflict. Two weeks later, on March 23, 1983, President Reagan delivered his address to the nation, stating his plan to develop a missile-defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or “Star Wars.” The SDI project imagined a shield in outer space to…

Ronald Reagan has been known for ending the Cold War with the Soviet Union. The Cold War was still going since WWII. Reagan wanted to reverse the policy of detente and finally stand up against the Soviet Union. Giving aid to the rebellions, he was hoping to quickly reverse what the Soviet Union was doing. Ronald Reagan wanted to give aid and make a legacy for himself. However, he did not believe in military force. He, in fact, wanted to deal with the Soviet Union peacefully. With many options…

The Cold War ended with no bullets fired, no missiles launched, and no military casualties. However the Cold War ended with a primary question unanswered, who is the top country in the world. This question still exists today as China, the US, and Russia all elbow each other for room in the growing world, and nations like Iran and North Korea also vie for power. These countries countries will do anything to obtain this power. The UN has tried multiple times to negotiate with North Korea to no…

The Cold War split America into two groups: those willing to conform and those not. This divide discriminated against filmmakers who exercised their right to freedom of expression. The Cold War’s “culture of conformity” forced Hollywood to embrace conservative ideology and oppose left-leaning thought. Anti-Communist organizations squashed production of Herbert Biberman’s Salt of the Earth due to its alleged Communist views while On the Waterfront’s Elia Kazan used the film to justify joining the…

How did the media prolong cultural antagonism in the United States and the USSR between 1950- 1980 during the Cold War? To understand the media’s role in the prolongation of cultural antagonism in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, it is important to first understand the media in its correct historical context. In this time, the media predominately consisted of television, radio, print, and film. This of course was prior to the popularity of decentralized media institutions such as electronic social…

The Cold War began as World War II came to an end. After the war, each one of the Big Three (United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain) had different concerns about the structure of the postwar world. Joseph Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR), was in search of security for his nation. Germany had attacked the Soviets twice in thirty years, and both times the Germans had reached them through Poland. Therefore, Stalin thought it was necessary…

port on the Mediterranean, mandating control of the Black Sea Straits”. (Kissinger). So the Allies goal was to contain communism into just the Soviet Union, and not throughout Western Europe. Some people blame the containment policy for starting the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. There are three different standpoints, represented by “Walter Lippmann, Winston Churchill, and Henry Wallace.”(Kissinger). The standpoints were that containment would work, it wouldn’t, and…