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Cold War (1945–91)
If you are simply asking when the Soviet Union came to have a nuclear weapon, the answer is 1949. The Soviets exploded their first nuclear weapon in August of that year. However, one can argue...
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Cold War (1945–91)
There are a number of ways in which this was the case. Let us look at two of the most important. First, this conflict involved a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union. The USSR was the main...
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Cold War (1945–91)
As "significance" is a fundamentally subjective or relative characteristic, this question can only be answered with suggestions as to what have been considered major challenges; no one can be...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Germany played a major role in the Cold War. It served as a place where the East and West came into contact with one another and it served to intensify some of the Cold War conflicts. The split of...
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John F. Kennedy
In many ways, I think that President Kennedy's Inaugural Address is useful in understanding the development of the Cold War up to 1960 simply because the address departed from the traditional...
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Cold War (1945–91)
In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, both sides realized how close they had come to nuclear war. While the Soviet withdrawal marked a major embarassment for Khrushchev, and some among...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Stalin's chief security concern in the immediate postwar era was to secure the western border of the Soviet Union. In the first half of the twentieth century, the Russian people had been involved...
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Cold War (1945–91)
American foreign policy under the Truman Administration was largely guided by the principle of containment. This doctrine was first proposed by foreign policy analyst George Kennan, who proposed...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Of course, a tremendous number of things happened during the 40+ years of the Cold War. Generally, what happened during this period was that the Soviet Union and the US were competing with one...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Cold War helped to make the United States less democratic by making it less protective of people's rights. This can be seen most clearly in the era of HUAC and McCarthyism. There was little...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The best answer of the options given here is C. One thing that is worth noting here (as a test taking strategy) is that you can immediately rule out D. You can see that A and C contradict one...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The answer to this depends on what time period we are talking about and upon what your particular textbook says. A is clearly correct. This is the fundamental meaning of containment. Containment...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The best answer of the ones given here is C. None of the others is plausible. At the Potsdam Conference, the Soviet Union and the Western Allies started to divide up Europe and, in particular,...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The main point of President Reagan's address was to bring forth his belief about the Cold War and how his approach would be fundamentally different than that of his predecessors. Regan's speech...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Gary Powers entered the United States Air Force in 1950 and was assisgned to the 468th Strategic Fighter Squadron stationed at Turner Air Force Base in Georgia. His assignment was F-84 Thunderjet...
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Cold War (1945–91)
President Reagan can be credited with helping to end the Cold War in two somewhat different ways. First, we can say Reagan's aggressive arms buildup helped to end the conflict. Reagan engaged the...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Soviet Union and the US got involved in the Cold War because they had different economic and political systems. Their systems were completely opposed to one another. Each system taught that...
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Cold War (1945–91)
There is no simple response for this question. Most historians believe that the Cold War ended as a result of a series of Democtatic and Republican presidents who all stuck to the same basic...
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Cold War (1945–91)
First, a little background history. Fidel Castro became the premier of a new Cuban government on January 1, 1959, and announced Cuba's conversion to Communism in 1960. As he organized the...
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Cold War (1945–91)
American Cold War policy during this period was guided by the principle of containment. According to this principle, which was first proposed by George Kennan and officially articulated as the...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Historians do not like to say that anything is inevitable. They prefer to emphasize contingency and human agency in historical developments. In the case of the Cold War, however, it is certainly...
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Cold War (1945–91)
McCarthyism is a really good example of how the Cold War influenced the urge in America to conform. People did not want to be suspected of having Communist leanings; the Red Scare in the early...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Iron Curtain Speech was a speech given by Winston Churchill on March 5, 1946 that was meant to encourage the United States to take a more aggressive stance towards communism. By this time,...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Cold War started soon after World War II. It started as the Soviet Union and the Western Allies (particularly the United States) started to compete for domination of the post-war world. As...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Capitalism and communism were very opposite systems. Each system clashed with the other over various issues that arose after World War II. The communists wanted to spread their economic system...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The main impact of the hydrogen bomb was to heighten the sense of fear felt by many Americans due to the tensions of the Cold War. With the development of the hydrogen bomb, Americans knew that...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The most obvious lingering effects of the Cold War can be seen in the tense relations between the United States and many countries that are or were communist. During the Cold War, the US was in...
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Cold War (1945–91)
There are a number of reasons for this. The two most important are Soviet actions and domestic American politics. In the late '70s, the Soviets took a couple of actions that provoked the US....
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Cold War (1945–91)
Your discussion of this question should begin with World War II and the German invasion of the Soviet Union. When this happened, the USSR became one of the Allies. Because the USSR was one of the...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Reagan Administration did a number of things to try to contain communism in Latin America. For example, they used diplomatic and economic pressure to try to keep Cuba contained and weakened....
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Cold War (1945–91)
When the war came to an end in Europe, the nation of Germany was divided into four occupation zones. The zones had been predetermined at the Yalta Conference, with the Soviet Union occupying the...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The relation between these is a bit tenuous. The real cause of the Gulf War was the US's need to ensure the safety and relative stability of the major oil fields in places like Kuwait and Saudi...
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Cold War (1945–91)
I think it is a bit overly simplistic to downplay the actions of the Soviets. United States policy during this time was a policy of containment, that is to stop communism from spreading further. It...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Cold War was caused almost exclusively by this expansionism and the reaction of the US to it. During the period after the end of WWII, it became increasingly clear that the Soviet Union was...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The motive for the nuclear arms race between the US and the Soviet Union was a desire for power and security. This was going on during the Cold War. Each side in the Cold War thought the other...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Marshall Plan was relevant to the goal of containment because it helped to prevent communism from spreading into Western Europe after WWII. After WWII, the countries of Western Europe were...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The main cause of this split was the simple fact that these were two countries that bordered on one another and each wanted to be a great power. Because of this fact, it is not surprising that...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Mao was responsible for this split to some extent, but he was by no means the only cause of that split. Mao can be held responsible for the split because part of the split was over interpretations...
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Cold War (1945–91)
It is certainly possible to argue this. In South Vietnam, the US had essentially put Diem in power and had been supporting him throughout his time in office. Diem would have had reason to expect...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union which was brought on by the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev. The end can be said to have come in 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell. It was...
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Cold War (1945–91)
One of these is a good example of rollback while the other is not. In Cuba (once containment had failed) the US made some attempts at rollback. The most overt of these was the attempted invasion...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The interpretation upon which containment was based was that of George Kennan, who argued that the Soviet Union was indeed expansionist, but that Soviet leaders would shrink in the face of...
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Cold War (1945–91)
On the one hand, the Cold War had never been confined to Europe. The early years of the conflict saw struggles in Korea, Iran, and in Taiwan. But it was in the 1960s and 1970s that the Cold War...
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Cold War (1945–91)
It is perhaps easier to argue that the US policy during this period was one of containment. While the US vigorously sought to keep communism from spreading, American strategy generally stopped...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The end of the Cold War made the United States have to reorient from being one competitor in the Cold War to being the world's only superpower. When the Cold War was going on, the US had one...
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Cold War (1945–91)
The history of the Cold War does not do much to support this claim. In the years between 1950 and 1962, the Cold War was alive and well in many parts of the world. It is true that it had not...
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Cold War (1945–91)
There are two major reasons for this. First, China's civil war was a domestic conflict while the Korean War was an invasion. The North Korean attack on South Korea was a much clearer provocation...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Since the Cold War was not a real war, it did not end with a peace treaty and a formal winner. However, the only way to answer this is to say that the US and its allies won the Cold War. The Cold...
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Cold War (1945–91)
While hard to imagine, and somewhat of a paradox, nuclear proliferation during the Cold War did bring about stability. The theory of MAD, or Mutually Assured Destruction, ruled the era in which...
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Cold War (1945–91)
Early on, these attempts were not successful at all. As time went by, the attempts became more successful. For example, President Eisenhower was not very successful at all in either his "atoms for...