Cold War

such as the PPSh-41, a type of Soviet submachine gun, and T-34/85 tanks which were of great importance during the first attacks as no US armour or anti-tank rockets could penetrate their armour. The Soviets also aided the Chinese air force when the war took to the skies. To begin with they did not actively engage in any air warfare, simply supplied them with Soviet MiG 15 fighter planes and trained Chinese pilots, however Stalin quickly grew frustrated with the quality and lack of Chinese pilots…

Geography of the Cold War: What is Containment? Containment means to stop the spread of communism. America during the Cold War wanted to stop communism from spreading to other places in the world. The Soviet Union however wanted communism to spread throughout the world and they wanted to be the ones to spread it. Stalin and The Soviets believed that communism is better than capitalism and that they would win this war. America had a strategy to stop it. In order to stop the spread of communism…

I am not a Russian, yet my blood has never felt redder. To me, the Cold War is no more than a fact of history. The Berlin Wall fell ten years before I took my first tumble as a toddler. I would never have imagined that the Soviet work mentality would transform how I approach everything from ice skating and jazz trumpet to student government and research papers. I never chose to start ice skating. Like many children, the decision was made for me. By age 6, I was skating and swimming…

"The Successes and Failures of Containment during the Cold War" With the end of World War II, the growing power and influence of the Soviet Union became worrisome to the West. For the next few decades, the majority of American foreign policy would revolve around the Soviet Union, an era that came to be known as the Cold War. In his Long Telegram, George Kennan outlined the policy for this period, containment. In essence, Communism would be allowed to stay where it is but not allowed to expand.…

Lost but not loser: The assessment of the claim that the Soviet Union lost the Cold War Introduction With the disintegration of Soviet Union, the Cold War era, which lasted as long as 40 years, had come to an end. The last Soviet Premier Gorbachev, ironically, been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize after his failed reformation and governance in Soviet Union, which, to put it the other way round, could been seen as affirmation for his struggle to pave the way for nuclear agreement and open the…

The South Korean film industry since Korean War (1950-1953) often portrays the Korean experience in the Cold War struggle and its lingering impact in inter-Korean relations as a backdrop for many of its popular films. While the Cold War is nominally a thing of the past, the consequences of the Cold War rhetoric are ubiquitous in the Korean peninsula, leading to an assessment and reassessment of the lingering feelings that South Koreans have of their Northern counterparts. The film industry’s…

it was for India and Pakistan. In 1952 they received the atom bomb and in 1957 they obtained the hydrogen bomb. This was extremely important as in the post war era defense entailed the protection of Western Europe against the threat of Soviet invasion. Britain played a huge role in this. This occurrence is now famously known as The Cold War. The next aspect that was changed was the moral codes. The moral codes in 1945 no longer are considered appropriate. This was because of the legal changes…

20th century, there were many sources of major conflict. From World War I, to World War II, to the Cold War, the world has often been at war, both ideologically and militarily. After the 9/11 attacks in 2001, American President George W. Bush declared a new war, called the War on Terror, a fight against terrorist groups in the Middle East (The White House's Coalition Information Center). A coalition lead by the United States is at war with one of these terrorist groups known as ISIS, which is…

Cold War effects on The History of America The Cold War was conflict between the two superpowers of the world, the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The war escalated due to antagonist principles between the United States, illustrating capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Union, representing communism and authoritarianism. Due to the fact they were two dominant world powers after WWII, contention between the Americans and Soviets became a global problem. Further, the Cold War…

The East and West had it in deep for each other causing the Cold War, but the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union had been hostile way before this and having to struggle with the communism in “The Red Scare” (Gerdes, Barbour, and Cothran 10). The history events that we see and hear of now were often caused by civilians, but during this time, Cold War and the Red Scare, it seemed as if both sides of this fight thought they were doing the right thing. In the end it did not…