Cold War Essay

When World War II came to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union were left as two superpowers with such contrasting ideologies that they became a threat to each other. Gaddis claimed that the American politicians, having to face such a malevolent force, had to adopt Machiavellian tactics when necessary in order to maintain their safety. Although this claim remains valid to an extent due to the fact that some of the United States’ unscrupulous actions were employed to maintain their…

The Cold War effected many countries throughout both North and South America including Costa Rica. It has high importance in history because it’s located between the Panama Canal and Nicaragua. This war also created a better government system for the country of Costa Rica. Because of the Cold War, Costa Rica eliminated its military, elected a new government and head of state, and drafted a new constitution…

S to have Poverty due to democracy putting the individual over the government. The cold war, 1960: took place in the U.S, a war that never took place on the battlefield nor a single bullet was fired, (some might say otherwise).it was more or less a race between two opposing ideologies of which who won the race would prove to the world its dominance. During the 1960s, the war was in full force and the race war, set to defeat communism. The American government feared communism due to it…

Tolulope Adedokun Chapter 26 Cold war politics in the Truman years 1. Why did relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorate after World War II? The end of World War II brought the United States and the Soviet Union into conflict over the future of postwar Europe, especially Eastern Europe and Germany. At the end of the war, the Red Army occupied the majority of Eastern Europe, while American and British forces held Western Europe. Stalin and the Soviets viewed…

The U-2 Incident 1960 was written during the Cold War. Tensions between the United Staes of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics were running high with the possible of threat of a nuclear surprise attack from either side. There had been an attempt to reduce these tensions in the Geneva Summit of 1955 by Dwight D. Eisenhower where he had proposed the open-skies proposal. The proposal intended for the U.S and the U.S.S.R to trade military base maps to allow each other to act on…

Bloc and the Western Bloc were battling a geopolitical war which was known as The Cold War . Many factors resulted in the cause of The Cold War however the fear of Communism spreading from the East , ‘The Red Scare’ as it was colloquially referred to , sparked The Cold War to a significant extent, as it caused many proxy wars, the space race, the nuclear arms race, and even battles within the performing arts (ballet) . A proxy war is a type of war which instead of two nations fighting directly…

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two great powers, creating a bipolar international stage. After the end of the war, the realist interpretation reigned dominant among other international relations theories. In the 1970’s, the middle of the cold war, realist theory expanded, creating structural realism (neorealism). Though realist theory cannot be applied to explain everything that happens in international politics, it can very well be used to explain…

The United States and The Soviet Union were in a cold war at the time of Apollo 11. One major part of the cold war was the “Space Race” The Space Race was a race between the United States and the Soviet union to see who could further space exploration in the larger degree. In the early 1960s people would say that the soviet union clearly had the upper hand in the “space race”. President Kennedy's goal would help the United States regain the “upper hand” Both countries wanted the achieve…

World War II, the bloodiest and most detrimental war in all of human history, was over. With the decease of Hitler and the surrender of the Japanese army, there came a time of rejoicing for both the world superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States of America, who had allied with each other to fight this tough battle. Unfortunately, this ecstasy and harmony between the two countries was ephemeral. The many differences between the two countries were the roots of the Cold War, and the…

December 26, 1991 was the day that the Soviet Union was dissolved. This allowed self-governing to states that made up the former Union. This was a vital part of the Cold War. Axis and Allied powers had been at fighting proxy wars and dealing with espionage for years and this was the ending of the Soviet power that the Allies had been fighting for. Around this same time the internet was becoming slowly what we see it as today. The internet and World Wide Web were starting to become a tool for…