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Within Truman’s first few weeks of presidency, Truman attended the Potsdam Conference in 1945. The Potsdam conference was a conference where Stalin, Churchill, and Truman nicknamed the Big Three, met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate the end of World War II (The Potsdam Conference). The Potsdam Conference was a significant event mainly because it gave the all of the leaders a chance to discuss their plans so that there was no confusion amongst the allies regarding post-war plans in Germany and…

From 1945 – 1989, America and Russia were locked into the “Cold War.” (Cold War) This wasn’t like a normal war were two countries directly pitted their military strengths against each other. Instead, the Cold War was fought with politics, fear, spies, and proxy wars. This was extremely scary for the American public, creating national hatred for communism and any countries affected by it. Vietnam was one of these countries, having been divided into a southern, democratic half and a northern,…

Ronald Reagan once said “come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” (“Reagan”). Prior to the fall of the wall in 1989, Germany was split into two different parts, one being the West and the other being the East. The Berlin Wall had a significant impact on Germany because the country was not united and it prevented development in the East. The fall of the Berlin wall had a positive effect on Germany by starting the process of unification in the…

McCarthyism and Movie Trumbo The Cold War was the longest global conflicted from 1945 to 1989 where The United States and the Soviet Union tried to have global hegemony after the WWII. It was a period full of threats, fear and persecution, which imposed its indelible mark on the conscience of the society of that time. In the reality, this conflict was bipolar, manipulative, propagandist and absurd clashed between 2 ideologist as capitalism and Communist. Throughout the different stages of the…

Introduction The Cold War was a war between the two superpowers, USSR and USA. Despite being the two most powerful countries in the world, no actual fighting took place. Instead, the war was fought through various methods of propaganda and threats. Sports were a very large part of propaganda in the Cold War. Countries were trying to prove their superiority in every way, and used sports as an effective method to do so. Soviets and the West were tight rivals, and would go to any limit to prove…

The 21st century is often seen as the most important time for global political renewal. The 21st century saw many countries break away from colonialism and enter into a transitional stage of independence in which new political systems that would lead them forward and away from their past needed to be chosen. Coincidentally at approximately this time, the cold war which consisted of a competition between the two main political systems of capitalism and communism was taking place and at the end of…

Communism in Eastern Europe has been an issue for decades and has often been reflected in the cinema the region releases. Whether being analogized through theatrical performance or sex and manhood, the argument of resistance has been a very loud one in Eastern European cinema. In this essay I plan to address the following points of concern: Sexual conquest and its use as passage into an altered state of thought. Play-acting and theatrics and whether or not they are purposeful in film or are they…

Causes of the Cold War This was a time of political, economic and military rivalry between USSR and the US. This happens after the Second World War in which problems arose due to ever-changing international power. The Soviet Union was aiming to get extra land while the United States was trying to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining what they wanted. The war was cold because the United States and the USSR used not to fight each other in a directly military conflict, instead they threaten each…

The United States and the Soviet Union fought in the cold war in 1947, ending in 1991. It was the beginning of change in government in Germany and European nations after WWII ended. It also caused separation and oppression. The United States and the Soviet Union were debating whether Germany and other European countries would be capitalist or communists. These countries taken over through communism and the US weren’t standing for communism. Due to this conflict, Europe provided money to rise…

A walk through West Berlin: Containment of Communism After WWII , The United States made great efforts to contain communism from spreading around the world. Containment was the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet communism should not be allowed to spread. A short passage, from a telegram that was secretly sent to U.S. State Department officials on February 22, 1946 from an American foreign service officer in Moscow makes it clear that Joseph Stalin and the Soviets believe communism is better…