Eastern Bloc

The Cold War can be considered one of the harshest times in American history; tensions between the people were high and everyone was out to get the soviets. In Margaret Thatcher’s eulogy honoring Ronald Reagan she describes how Reagan’s great leadership unites the nation and gets everyone out of the Cold War. Thatcher employs juxtaposition between those who doubted Reagan and his actual actions and a negative connotation on the soviets as rhetorical techniques to convey the strong alliance and…

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union enhanced in 1940s and 1950s. Thereafter, agitation advanced over the anticipated threat made by Communists in the U.S., and this became known as the Red Scare. Many were confused, and many were not happy about the decisions made during this time. Furthermore, the actions made eventually followed to a content community. Joseph McCarthy was a U.S. senator from Wisconsin. He intended to uncover and suppress domestic communists during the…

off western europe and then later to rebuild war-torn Europe to prevent the spread of communism, facilitate global trade and free markets, and encourage European peace. The U.S. gave $13 billion to European nations through the Marshall Plan. The Eastern European countries rejected Marshall Plan aid because of pressure from the Soviet Union, who feared non-communist influence in communist regions. The Marshall Plan ended in 1951; many argue that it was…

To Communists, like Lenin, war was an inevitable outcome of the final stage of capitalism: imperialism, where capitalist countries of Europe fight for markets and resources. Although imperialism was an obvious manifestation that caused economic competition between European powers, it was not the most significant cause of World War I. The nations that most demonstrated imperial rivalry, soon became allies instead of enemies in World War I: Britain and Russia. At first, Britain was threatened by…

I researched the former POTUS Eisenhower Doctrine (Jan. 5, 1957) during the Cold War period which was after World War II. The U.S. foreign-policy pronouncement by former POTHUS Dwight D. Eisenhower was promising the Middle Eastern country military or economic aid. This aid was to assist in the resisting of the aggression by the communist in the Middle East. His doctrine was focused on preventing the increased Soviet influence within the Middle East. This increased Soviet influence was the direct…

As Ursula Franklin stated in her 1987 paper, Reflections on Theology and Peace, “peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear." In my opinion, the Cold War accurately demonstrates this definition of peace. The Cold War was a period in history where peace was nonexistent because of the fear present in the minds of Americans. The Cold War, despite being a drawn-out period of tension and hostilities between primarily the Soviet Union and the United States, had an absence of actual…

Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech reflects Winston Churchill’s thoughts on the time period of World War II (1946) about the “Europe’s Divide”, the “Communist Fifth Columns”, and the war not being “Inevitable”, the issue going around World War II and The Cold War affected many people and countries. Churchill persuades the readers to believe what The United Nations plan was to help Winston Churchill and restore both sides of Europe. Churchill uses an Emotional Appeal to show “a strong…

The post WWII propaganda saw a strong link emerge between many political actions of the two superpowers and the fight to ideological supremacy, as the governments inadvertently campaign for public support of their ideology. Corresponding with the rising ideological pride, the pressure and threat of the enemy saw the governments begin efforts to use political movements to discredit the capability of the rival ideology. This ideological pressure clearly burdened both the American and Soviet…

The Cold War took place from the end of World War II, in 1945, to 1991, when the Soviet Union fell. It was a prolonged period of tension. The Cold War was not fought like any other war; it was fought through competitions such as the Space Race, Proxy Wars, and Sporting Events. The war was over the spread of communism, the idea the people in a country should share all the wealth and property. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism throughout the world, but the United States wanted to keep…

CRITICAL THINKING (MAX 550 WORDS) In the article “Who Lost Russia (this time)?” by Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFaul, the authors want to argue the reasons why Russia turned out to be the country which we know today as powerful and autocratic. The authors go back to what happened to Russia in the 1990s. The decline of the economic growth brought the Russians to point their fingers at the West and more specifically at the United States for their acting. During those years people raised two…