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the start, America knew that the arrangements being taken by certain individuals in the areas of Europe and Asia were unjust. Immediately, President Truman stepped in and took it as his responsibility to prevent this from going any further. During a Cold War speech of his, Mr. Truman made it known to the American citizens that…

-The aftermath of the Cold War was a recent and a very important period of time in history for the development of the countries. In this period of time the political relationships of the countries in the world were not having their best confidence moment at all. A lot of spying was going on during those years. The two biggest powers( U.S.A and the Soviet Union) were having that information battle that we cannot know a lot more about it. The aftermath of this war determined the stability…

The development and ongoing conflict between the United States and Russia in the 20th century ushered in a new era of foreign policy propaganda tactics and a global battle between economic ideologies that greatly affected U.S relations with Central America. The culmination of infiltration of the F.B.I in the political process of multiple countries in Central America as well as the spread of Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary ideas among the people of these countries has greatly impacted what…

Eventually, the French, British, and American zones merged and formed what would later be known as the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). The Soviet zone became the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The aftermath of World War Two is what led to the Cold War in Germany. The Germans in Eastern Germany began to view life in Western Germany as much more desirable. West Germany had become an unexpectedly stable and thriving democracy. They made it their business to prevent any radical and extremist…

opportunity and challenge calling it a struggle against the common enemies of man tyranny, poverty, disease, and War. Within this promise, as it related to expansion of American foreign policy, the goal was to find new effective ways of waging the Cold War. The solution JFK and his team produced was a strategy called “flexible response”. The flexible response was JFK's effort to move away from Eisenhower's policy of massive retaliation. Early in his new presidency JFK made the decision to…

From the end of WWII in 1945 until 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union interacted in a major conflict called the Cold War. It was called the Cold War because there was no physical harm or the use of deadly weapons, therefore, the two sides never directly fought each other. Throughout this time, the United States followed a foreign policy called 'containment '. This policy was highly effective between the U.S. and West Berlin, Kore, and Cuba. The United States contained communism in…

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood takes a plunge into the deepest depths of the Clutter family murders of Holcomb, Kansas. Although Capote’s original intent was to publish an article about the effect of the murders on the small town, his work gradually transformed into something completely different. After hours upon hours of interviews and research, Capote decided to take his piece in a whole new direction, painting a truly accurate picture of the murderers. He included in depth descriptions of the…

intensified over the following decade. Major influences of the tension included The Yalta Conference and The Korean War. These events not only strained their relationship even more with each other, but turning them into enemies in what was known as the Cold War. A main reason for the two powers tension was their different visions. Before the Yalta Conference, the Tehran Conference in 1943 may have seemed finish but left a very important future issue unsolved. Whether or not the Soviet Union…

When Truman Capote wrote In Cold Blood, he took the responsibility of writing a novel, while incorporating facts about the Clutter family murder. Because the killings were a sensitive matter to the people of Holcomb and the Clutters’ relatives during the time of his research, Capote had to find a way to respect the sentiments of the people affected by being as accurate as possible. However, the author adds in elements commonly used in a novel to dramatize the situation and add the element of…

War, something so dangerous as we know it. We all know many wars where people have lost their lives fighting for their country or beliefs. However, here is one war that was somewhat different. The Cold War was an almost 45 year long dispute between the United States and the USSR, where these superpowers had entirely different beliefs in ideology, politics, and expansion. They both wanted to spread their beliefs, beyond their borders to gain global dominance.To prevent the spreading of the other…