Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

created a plan called Detente which helped ease tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S during the time of the cold war. After meeting with the Soviet's Leader, Nixon and Brezhnev were able to come to an agreement where they signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, helping to calm U.S.-Soviet tensions by stopping nuclear arms from being used by either sides. This allowed the U.S to stop spending so much money on nuclear arms and start focusing on the welfare state. Nixon participated in…

Ronald Reagan believed he had life figured out when he signed a contract with Warner Brothers in August of 1945. However, in October of the same year, the Warner Brothers studio front gate hosted the Battle of Hollywood: a strike called by the Conference of Studio Unions. The strikers clogged the building’s entrance for weeks, causing the actors to sneak into the studio through the storm drain in order to continue production despite the protests. Reagan chose to enter the front of the…

McNamara had introduced the idea of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). This strategy was based on the belief that if Soviet atomic missiles ever attacked the U.S., the U.S. would have second-strike capability to annihilate all of the Soviet Union. Therefore, there would never be an incentive for the Soviet’s to attack the United States. Even though Nixon was a staunch anti-communist, his goal when becoming President was to ease the tensions with Communist nations, namely the Soviet Union and The…

World Affairs COLD WAR, DETENTE AND THE RENEWAL OF TENSION The emergence of a Bipolar World: Before the smoke had even settled down shortly after the World War II, there was a new war of ideologies gathering into force. The Soviet Union and the United States had collaborated in defeating the fascist empires of Japan, Italy and Germany. Nonetheless, as it approached the culmination of 1945, the wartime coalition crumbled. The United States, anchoring the Capitalist World, and the Soviet Union,…

The United States of America is nation where democracy reigns and freedom rings. The forefathers of this country wanted nothing more than a nation without a monarchy rule set in place. When we won our freedom in the Revolutionary War, questions arose as to who would lead this great nation. A king and a queen were out of question, but they did not want an anarchy, so a compromise was met. To this day America has been led by a position called the president. The president is the one Americans look…

of incumbent and opponent, Jerry Voorhis, to a Communist backed political action committee, called the Congress of Industrial Organizations (“Richard Nixon: Life Before the Presidency”). During his time in the House from 1947 to 1950, Nixon used his anti-communist credentials as a member of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, a temporary committee tasked with exposing and warding out communistic elements in government and society (“Richard Nixon: Life Before the Presidency”). Nixon would…

One of the most important conflicts in the history of the United States, was actually one that involved no fighting. For the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and Russia were in a race to develop the most nuclear weapons and to spread their political beliefs around the world. This conflict is know as the Cold War. It could have been one of the deadliest and most world involved wars know to man, but thankfully there was no fighting between the two nations. However, there was…

The Cold War occurred after the traumatic events of World War 2, that lasted almost 50 years, beginning in 1945 and lasting through 1991. Even though, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War 2, political tensions arose between the two nations that resulted in the production of nuclear weaponry, space race, and wars against communism that led to positive results such as improved space technology, defensive weapons, and end of communism to several countries. When World…

(Oct 25, 1999): 18. Student Resource Center - Bronze. Gale. CENTRAL BUCKS HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH. 8 Nov. 2007 <http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPS>. Talks about the global ramifications of the rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty by the senate and its rejection is a clear example of the unwillingness the nuclear powers exhibit towards limitation of their nuclear…

A difficult question that surrounds the idea of the Cold War is what we all have heard since high school history class, did atomic weapons cause the cold war, or at the very least, accelerate it? According to many historians, the Cold War was a conflict of two main objectives; the development of nuclear weapons and the fear of communism and soviet expansion. With these two key characteristics, it is only logical to say that the Cold War was a spawn of both of them combined. It began as a…