Cold War leaders

“Tear down this wall” was once said by a former president trying to end the cold war. Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest presidents of all time. The American people had affection and love for him. He was in the presidential office for eight years straight. Ronald Reagan is important because as a former president he was great leader,wonderful character, and strengthen world peace. First of all, Ronald Reagan had great leadership that helped America restore itself. As a president he learned…

The Cuban missile crisis is a outcome of the cold war when tensions were high between USSR and the United States. Shortly after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista the former leader of Cuba in 1959 Fidel Castro took power over Cuba. Eventually Fidel Castro made Cuba under communist society. Since the USSR is communist as well, the Cuban relationship with USSR grew immensely. With high tensions with the Soviets during the cold war, the U.S. did not want Fidel Castro to rule over Cuba. In…

Changes in the Soviet Role in the Cold War changed during the period from the mid 1940’s to mid 1960’s because of the many major events like the COMECON conference and death of Joseph Stalin. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and USA changed from being allies to enemies and not trusting one another. The destalinization process that happened after Nikita Khrushchev took control marked the start of change like beginning to want to repair the image that Stalin had previously set. They…

Is it true that the Cold War began after the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948? The Cold War was described by George Orwell as “a peace that is no peace”. The lack of actual armed conflict combined with the undulating political and military tensions make identifying the start of the cold war problematic. The Berlin blockade crisis of 1948 played a large role in the onset of the Cold War, and yet several earlier episodes suggest that the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had…

Even though, Gorbachev was the leader under the Soviet Union he abandoned the confrontational style of world politics and became the driving force to improve world relationships (Pyle, 1989). As a leader, he displayed a vision to address the problems and issues affecting the citizens. He successfully communicated his approach to having a peaceful initiative to addressing world affairs. He was the first Soviet leader that presented himself as a rational actor. Gorbachev…

investments. Has caused the Soviet Union to run out of money and collapse and start losing the war. “(According to American History.edu)” The communist and democratic worlds were separated for 46 years, in the Cold War. In the 1980s, Ronald…

and agent also took into custody of the main leaders of Czechoslovakia. At 11pm of the night, Soviet Union troops occupied the…

The Ghost Bomb of the Cold War The height of the Cold War resulted in the closest moments humanity has reached to complete physical annihilation of the planet. Despite the fact that the Cold War did not erupt in a fiery storm of nuclear bombs aimed at enemies across the globe, instead ending in a tense lowering of arms, the residual effects felt around the world have been equally destructive as a nuclear warhead. The Cold War led to the destruction of the metaphysical psychology of the entire…

1. Harry Truman a. Harry Truman was president during the Cold War. He had a hand in preventing the spread of Communism to other countries. Truman saw that, with the Iron Curtain dividing Europe in half, communism would spread quickly and what he wanted to do was help countries that were threatened by Communism and this is what the Truman Doctrine consisted of. He asked Congress for 40 million dollars to fund Greece and Turkey, who were threatened by Communism at the time. He figured that if we…

America and the Soviet Union influenced the Cold War. The Berline Blockade and airlift, the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis are crucial events of the Cold War and was a result of the ideological differences between the two superpowers. As Malone stated, “the United States’ ideology of capitalism and the Soviet Union’s ideology of communism led to a superpower rivalry” (156). The Berlin blockade and airlift which was the first crisis of the cold war, was caused by the ideological…