Cold War

As World War II was ending and the Nazi threat was coming to an end and a new threat was emerging in the world. Communism was spreading and spearheading the movement was the Soviet Union. This was very worrisome for all who opposed communist rule. There were many events and spans of time that shaped the cold war and caused the United States and its allies to adapt. I chose three that really stuck out to me. I chose the Korean war, the red scare, and the space race. These were only three…

The worst case scenario from the Cold War becomes a reality. The greatest and worst World War begins. The Axis and the Allies butt heads, nuclear warheads that is. As things begin to escalate, the outcome looks more and more bleak. When the war ends, it is revealed that there is no winner. Instead, the human race has lost. Preparations- In a nuclear war, your two keys to survival are your location and your shelter. Your locations is perhaps the most critical when a hit comes out of left field.…

a female activist group formed at the height of the Cold War, transformed the American women from a passive victim of patriarchal militarism and politics into an active fighter for peace. By empowering the female voice in America, WSP played a vital role in ending the dangers that American families faced due to the Arms Race, and the beginnings of more peaceful relations between rival superpowers, America and the Soviet Union. Heated Cold War tensions between rival Eastern and Western…

The period before, during, and after World War II called the Cold War lasting from the 1930s to the 1970s was a period of suspicion for American citizens. People began to perceive a communist threat everywhere, from Hollywood to the State Department. The many high-profile cases of individuals spying for the Soviet union in the United States both fueled and reflected the extreme paranoia of society during the Cold War by creating and reflecting the concern of a communist threat in American…

world happened forever and a day ago, but the truth is it was more like yesterday. WWI ended only 99 years ago and WWII ended only roughly 72 years ago. The world would like to think that those events are in the past, but the truth is the next major war is just on the brink of arising. Society today is passive aggressive so arising conflicts often go unnoticed or disregarded until eventually this tension explodes. Take 9/11 for example, there was passive aggressive tension constantly due to the…

them’ (Mearsheimer 1994). Such a system promotes the concepts of self-help, statism and survival which suggest that war is the result of independent states fighting for power and national interest in order to survive. Given that the world has only been at peace for 8% of all of recorded history (Hedges 2003), these concepts are of great significance to realist in order to dissect war and understand why it is so prominent in international politics. Therefore, the bases of this essay will be…

Anti-American sentiment is the result of several different factors and does not have one exact cause. Events such as the Cold War, which created an “intense geopolitical rivalry between the United States and Russia”, cause lasting impacts and provide insight on how anti-American sentiment forms (“Background” para 1). During the Cold War, Americans were accusing each other of being Soviet spies and facing government investigations. No one was safe from the allegations, especially celebrities…

During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union had many technological advancements. The most notable of all was the creation of the first Earth satellite. The satellite named Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and orbited the Earth for three months. At this moment the Soviet Union had officially started the Space Race and was currently in the lead. During this time the US citizens reacted differently. “From the 1950's, the United States and the Soviet Union…

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979, marked a turning point for the Cold War in the United States. The Soviet Union had sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan, and they quickly assumed political and military control of Kabul and other large portions of the country. This overt display of Soviet force formally ended the period of détente that had been used by Nixon and Ford. The invasion was significant because it was the first time the Soviet Union had invaded a country…

Doctrine, and the Marshall Plan. The Cold War affected our foreign policy because it caused us to help countries that we thought were anti-communist. It also made the United States more aggressive interventionist in Central America, in trying to keep leaders that they seen as non-communist leaders in power, even if they were brutal dictators, this had a great effect on immigration especially were Cuba was concerned. I believe that to a certain extend the Cold War policies still affect us today…