DENVER II

Appeal for McCarthyism in the Cold War In the era following World War II, tensions between the United States and Soviet Russia were at their highest. Americans were on constant alert for an imminent nuclear war outbreak. This constant threat caused many Americans to become frightened. McCarthy gave people a relief to their stress, by giving them the belief that the government was successfully hunting down and capturing communists, and that McCarthy’s actions were preventing a war. In addition,…

The United States and the Soviet Union proved to be allies, during World War II. However, as time went on the two countries became increasingly suspicious of one another. Tension between the two countries was so horrible it almost resulted in a nuclear war, especially due to the Yalta Conference, where vague agreements were stated but no real resolve was established. Another important factor that played into the hatred of these two countries was McCarthyism, the passionate hatred of communist.…

landed a man on the moon, this resulted in uniting America more than ever, it resulted in over 6,000 inventions that we use daily, and most importantly, it ended the space race between the USSR and US which costed billions of dollars. After World War II finally ended in 1945, not long after a new problem sparked between the United States and Russia. This problem, also known as the Cold War was a battle where no shots were fired from either…

in a world constantly filled with horror, a world in which death can strike at any moment. And finally, imagine that, at a point in history, this world did, in fact, exist. The Holocaust, perpetrated by Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany during World War II, remains one of the most infamous genocides in human history, resulting in the death of approximately six million Jews. For many of these Jews, as seen in Night by Elie Wiesel, “Stealing Bread” by Ella Liebermann-Shiber,…

The Cold War is noted as the struggle between two of the world’s superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, who are both trying to expand their spheres of influence. The government provided large sums of money for the defense industry and the American public was constantly in fear of a nuclear attack launched by the Soviets. The conflict can be viewed as an ideological confrontation between the democratic United States and the communist Soviet Union resulting in a peaceful ending, or a…

The world has seen many wars, none of them were as greatly catastrophic as World War II; question is, what caused this catastrophe? World War II has quite a few causes, main cause being the failure to create peace after the First World War through the Treaty of Versailles (Traité de Versailles) which was only benefiting the “big three”. The Treaty of Versailles is a peace treaty that was put into place at the end of World War I to ensure that there would be peace between the countries involved.…

free elections. The Yalta Conference took place in Yalta, Russia in 1945. President Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill all attended the confrence. The conference discussed many important topics. The Yalta Conference occurred after World War II. The United States, Soviet Union, and Great Britain 's point of view were all included during the meeting. The…

On July 28, 1914, the world was changed forever when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, setting stage for the First world war. A relatively new form of warfare, known as trench warfare, would arise and cause one of the most brutal stalemates in history. Trench warfare was an inefficient way to fight World War One. Even though it’s main purpose was to defend soldiers, it caused outrageous amounts of casualties due to stalemates and scarred the landscape forever. Trench warfare is a form of…

Douglas MacArthur was a great and inspirational leader that fought in the first and the second world war as well as the Korean war. He became a general almost at the start of his military career for his services of the U.S military. He is easily an inspirational leader in the way he did his duties in his military life with his fullest ability. He did what he said he would do and he made sure it was done. Douglas MacArthur is an inspirational leader in what he did in the military and for how he…

No other author like Gail Warshofsky Lapidus has written about Soviet women as she has. In one of her many books, Women, Work, and Family in the Soviet Union Lapidus claims that the irreplaceable role of Soviet women in both production and reproduction made it virtually certain that the questions of women’s work and household duties were central issues on the Soviet political agenda during the late 1960s. Once the male population started to rise again, and return to the labor force the…