The Cold War Essays
Posted: October 2nd, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: American Politics, History, Law & Politics, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, CIA, Communism, Harry Truman, Marshall Plan, Mccarthyism, NATO, Russia, Russian, Soviet, Soviet Union, Stalin, United States, USSR, Yugoslavia | Comments Off
The Cold War – Who Was to Blame?
As early as 1948, blame was being placed for the yet to be concluded Cold War era. In that day, the predominant view was that the fault lay not on the West, despite the unclearness of intentions and the icy tone of the Truman administration’s relations with the [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Airlift, Germany, Soviet Union | Comments Off
With the Nazis defeated after World War II, the Western powers finally thought the string of wars was over. On the contrary, the USSR had other plans for the newly conquered Germany. Berlin, Germany’s capital, was divided among Great Britain, the United States, France, and Russia. While this division was intended to keep peace, the [...]
Posted: July 20th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Berlin, Berlin Wall, Communism, Germany, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The Berlin Wall, built in August of 1961, was a physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of Germany.
The Wall was built because of a long lasting suspicion among the Soviet Union on one side and Western Europe and the United States on the other. Once World War II was over, these Allies no [...]
Posted: July 13th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, Marxism, The Cold War | Tags: Communism, Dictators, Lenin, Russia | Comments Off
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili was an unkown man in the small town of Gori, Georgia. After years of revoulutionary activity and many times exiled to Siberia, he changed his name. A name that would threaten the Germans, ally with the Americans, and help the North Koreans. A name that came from the Russian word for steel, [...]
Posted: July 11th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Communism, NATO, Soviet Union | Comments Off
After World War II ended, the threat of communism captured the attention of both North America and Western Europe. A military operations group –called the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)– was formed to shield Western Europe from the communistic Eastern Europe. NATO benefited for its members in four ways: it provided the defenses of all [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: History, The Cold War | Tags: Mccarthyism, Soviet Union | Comments Off
American and Soviet relations deteriorated in the decade following World War II. The three factors that had the most effect on that relationship were the agreements made at the Yalta Conference, the Korean War, and McCarthyism.
The agreements of the Yalta Conference began the deterioration of the American-Soviet relationship. Some of the decisions taken at Yalta [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Cuba, History, The Cold War | Tags: Cuban Missle Crisis, Soviet Union | Comments Off
During the administration of United States President John F. Kennedy, the Cold War reached its most dangerous state, and the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to the edge of nuclear war in what was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the Cold War? What started the tensions [...]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 | Author: admin | Filed under: Law & Politics, The Cold War | Tags: Europe, Military, Military History, NATO, Russia, Soviet, Soviet Union | Comments Off
The latter half of the twentieth century has been dominated by the Cold War and the actions and events surrounding it. During this period different alliances and treaties were formed and many of these were institutionalized. One such alliance was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). This organization was set up by the Northern Atlantic [...]
