The Cold War

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 comfortable situation for both nations involved and the fact that it ended did no favors for the United States, but actually hurt it. The peaceful ending of the Cold War marked a great triumph for the United States because it proved freedom outlasts…

The Cold War was not actually a war. Hence the name “Cold” war. It was more like a drawn out competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, which is modern day Russia. The U.S. also was closely monitoring the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons development for obvious reasons. More specifically, the U.S. wanted to monitor the Soviet Union’s development of mass destruction in an effort to prevent them from developing or using them. The U.S. was concerned the weapons of mass destruction…

The Cold War which started in 1946 to 1991 was a global military, political, economic, ideological struggle between the U.S. and Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). The Cold War was not only a struggle between two nations, but what the nations represented or stood for: Democracy and Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. In 1945, Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then…

The Cold War The battle developed due to the fact of the relationship between USA and the USSR after World War two was called The Cold War. The Cold War in spherically was a military conflict between the two countries where if a direct contact had occurred War World III will had taken place. The conflict was over political, military and economic issues. Communism and Capitalism also played significant factors into this war. This name, The Cold War, was giving because each side never fought each…

War has been going on since the beginning of human life. With technology improving in such a fast pace, war has become more and more complicated. To me, war was originally a country fighting another country because a difference in ideology or a disagreement on something very important. But in today’s world, war has changed to a whole other dimension and has so many meanings. After World War II, the US and the Soviet Union started the Cold War. The Cold War was a war in which the US and Soviet…

Perpetual War "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex...Dwight D. Eisenhower" We accept that war used to be fought for outcomes like treasure, resources, territory, and to "save Democracy". Today the war-making itself is the treasure. Ask FedEx, who has a no-bid multi-million dollar contract to fly pallet loads of bottled water from Seattle to Baghdad, or Lockheed-Martin, who constructs incredibly complex…

The Cold War was a war that included no weapons and no casualties, however is that truly the case? There is a truism that there is no great in war, so how might that be conceivable when the U.S and Russia never truly battled? The Korean War has frequently been called America 's "overlooked war" on the grounds that the United States made no critical regional or political additions amid the war. In spite of the way that a huge number of Americans passed on, the war both started and finished with…

The Korean war highlighted the conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States as the Cold war raged on in the early 1950s. The Red Army, which was part of the Soviet Armed Forces, attacked and conquered many different countries around the 1940s(ushistory.org). After these nations were conquered, they became a part of the Soviet Union and Stalin, who led the Soviet Union, established communist rule in the countries. By conquering nations around the world, the Soviet Union had the ability…

ideas. We covered the causes of World War I, World War I itself, Totalitarian, Fascism, the causes of World War II, World War II, and the causes of the Cold War. Although many important topics were covered, the most important topic that was covered was the Cold War. The Cold War was the most important topic that had been covered in the first semester because it was waged due to communism. It is important to know why the Cold War was fought, and what were the causes of the Cold War. It was…

The Cold War was a time of tension between the Union of Soviet socialist republics, The Soviet Union and the United States and their respective ideological. It followed the second war and persisted roughly forty five years. The Cold War was not declared in the same sense at most wars, rather it progressed over time with therefore there are different opinions of the exact beginning of the war. And the economic struggle between the two superpowers. First, The Cold War began in Europe after World…