Cold War leaders

U.S. Leaders in the Cold War As World War II ended in 1945, the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics began a decades long struggle for global supremacy known as the Cold War, which lasted until 1991. During this period of time the following Presidents governed the United States: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush. For the purpose of this essay I’m going to focus on three of the more influential Presidents: Harry Truman, Richard Nixon…

Aggressor in the Cold War The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II primarily between the United States of America and the Soviet Union that lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was more about convincing other countries to turn Capitalist or Communist than fighting each other with weapons and items of mass destruction. However, the combat with weapons never really occurred in the United States of America or the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Most of the…

The end of the Second World War brought an economic and political crisis to the Soviet Union. The Cold War added forty-five years of geopolitical tension between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. The Soviet Union and the United States of America fought as allies in the Second World War. However, their relationship during the war was simply the result of having Nazi Germany as a mutual enemy. Rivalry between the Soviet Union and the United States of America to become the…

work on the Peloponnesian War He said that power, if unchecked, will lead to desire for more and more power (Korab-Karpowicz). This is part of the so-called cynicism behind realism. Italian philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli contributed to the Realist Worldview through his book, The Prince, where he states that people are at the deepest level self interested and unreliable (Spencer). Additionally, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote about how the world exists in…

sentiments and economically-unproductive neoliberal trade policies (Cardoso). But populism is a threat to democracy in Latin America. According to Cardoso, populist leaders are authoritarian and often create a cult of personality where their power is above constitutional law and political institutions. Moreover, many of these populist leaders use propaganda and “empty rhetoric” to manipulate the poor and uneducated public (Cardoso). Also, the economic reforms proposed by these populist parties…

On the cold day of January 20, 1961, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy presented his inaugural address to over twenty thousand people on the steps of the United States Capital building. In addition to the crowd at the Capital, in attendance were those Americans who were able to listen to his speech over the radio or watch it on the television. John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech is considered to be one of the greatest speeches in American public address. John F. Kennedy was a young and vibrant speech…

Prominent Leader: Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan is by far one of the most charismatic leaders I’ve ever heard of. His charisma is clear in all of his speeches and so simple to understand. Rallying Americans across the United States to take a stand and keep government small and the people’s interests big. Some of the issues he faced was a continued race war (which is still being fought now) throughout America. In a speech, as the Republican Presidential nominee he told a crowd of African…

that it created a cold war. This cold war almost led to global destruction. Many americans first started fearing communism between 1947 and 1948. They started fearing it because it was expanding through Europe. The Soviet Union was the biggest country that was led by a communist government during their time. The Soviet Union wanted Europe to only elect a communist leader. While the United States and Great Britain wanted Europe to have free elections. This is when the cold war first started. In…

The Cold war was a misunderstanding that grew, tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States. Leaders Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev were currently in charge when the Cold War ended. Reagan and Gorbachev both wanted the same for their country, but were scared that they would turn against each other. I believe that Ronald Reagan was the one to influence more of an effort to “end” the Cold War. Reagan created the first treaty to reduce the number of nuclear power, Gave his famous…

it could to rise up and control the rest of the world. Unfortunately, human nature has shown, previous to World War II, that the world can’t live in peace because only one can be the best and most powerful. When Germany surrendered in the spring of 1945, the peace-making alliances that were formed between Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States, at the beginning of the war, began to crumble as the need for more power manifested inside each great nation. The natural animosity…