Essays on Cold War

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were the world’s strongest nations. They were called superpowers. They had different ideas about economics and government. They fought a war of ideas called the Cold War. A cold war is a state of...

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union emerged and developed after World War II, though its origins go back in history to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. The Cold War was an ideological, economic, political and military confrontation, but it never...

An Era of Fear Truman had just demonstrated the raw power of the nuclear bomb, in order to end World War II, in 1945. The cost of war had immediately changed; the world had seen that whole cites could be obliterated within seconds. This would...

During the Cold War, the United States engaged in many aggressive policies both in America and abroad, in pursuance to fight communism and the spread of communist ideologies. Faced with a new challenge and global responsibilities the U.S. needed to preserve what it had fought...

The Cold War was a period of historical clash that took place between 1947 and 1991. Many International Scholars, however, believed that the Cold war started in the 1917 Russian revolution. It was between America and its allies (western countries) vs the Eastern bloc by...

The Cold War The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after WWII between the Soviet Union, the United States, and their allies. The USSR tried to exert a communist influence throughout central and eastern Europe. The US had decided to take a stand...

Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had been discussing resolving the Cold War for a long time to no avail. Mikhail Gorbachev partially agreed to resolving the Cold War if Reagan stopped his SDI project (Strategic Defense Initiative). SDI was a missile defense system that would...

60 million dead men, women and children. World War II was simply the bloodiest war the world has ever known, with no prior war being so profound in its technological advancements to the point where it is still relevant today. Numerous inventions were made, including...

The Second World War and the Cold War both had colossal impacts on the development of science during the 20th century both during and after their events. When analysing any kind of war from a scientific perspective, the prominent area of focus tends to land...

For all of us, global civil society is a new term. However, the significance of it is rapidly growing. As a result of that, there are numerous researches about global civil society, as lots of researchers who believed that the global civil society was the...

During the year of 1950, a new tension came to light. Eventually, the conflict got so bad that it led to a war. It happened in Korea, but many countries ended up getting involved. This war would have a huge impact on the world and...

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now sustains a derogative perspective on the state of war and its corruptive influence. Set in Saigon during the Vietnam War, the action and narrative present the post-World War II era as a morally confused, hypocritical, and corrupt period,...

The Cuban Missile Crisis was truly one of the world’s worst escalations of tension between two willing and able superpowers that could have resulted in damages both parties would still be recovering from today. Beginning with issues concerning Cuba, the crisis came to involve the...

In the decade of the 1960’s, there was an expanse of many different world changing events. From civil rights movements to landing a man on the moon so many things happened. One event that took place in October of 1962 that was very important and...

In the spring of his inaugural year, President John F. Kennedy signed into effect what would perhaps become his most enduring legacy: a government volunteer program called the Peace Corps. Kennedy’s Peace Corps was created to send educated Americans overseas to assist developing areas with...

Abstract expressionism was commended as an unusual, strongly customized and particularly apolitical form of aesthetic expression. This abstract expressionism developed into art during the post war period where the American government used this art in Cold War. When the U.S government agencies found that there...

The Cold War was a susceptible, yet secured rivalry between the army of United States, Soviet Union and their allies. It devoted itself upon political, economic and propaganda fronts. Brazil was an US ally during the war, however when the US responded radically to the...

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) was a voluntary organisation who worked towards the aim of ‘the unilateral abandonment by Britain of nuclear weapons and nuclear alliances.’ They were particularly active throughout the 1980s when they grew in popularity as the cold war took place...

The Cold War The Cold War refers to the non-violent rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union shortly after World War II. It caused great animosity and has affected relations with the Soviet Union over the years. The issues between these two countries...

President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address was delivered to the nation at the end of his term, on January 19, 1961. A Presidential Farewell address serves as more than just a formality, and therefore should be treated as such. It is a President’s last opportunity to directly...

Introduction The United States’ military is continuously impacted by several factors. Some of these factors include the political parties that are in majority at the time, the beliefs of the current President of the United States, the various world leaders in charge, the ever changing...

A submarine is basically a watercraft that has the ability of independent operation underwater. It is dissimilar to a submersible, which has more limited underwater power or ability. The term most commonly refers to a large, crewed vessel. Submarines were first widely used during World...

The 1962 version of “The Manchurian Candidate” is a typical Cold War suspenseful film twisted with sarcastic hints throughout the entire duration. Released during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film was sure to resonate with the Cold War drama Americans were facing...

After the Cold War, countries looked to the United States of America for guidance on how to control nuclear weapons. This is a common example of the United States of America setting an example and leading other countries into a new era. As a result...