The Cold War Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (226) essays
The Cold War essays:
NATO And Cold War.
... 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 Western Powers to combat the Eastern Soviet threat. Today however NATO still exists and plays an active role in international relations ...
The Rise and Fall of McCarthyism
... McCarthy, was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, Nov.14, 1908, and died May 2, 1957, (Grolier, 1996) was best known for his attacks on alleged Communist subversion most notably within the administrations of the Presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The activities of McCarthy and ...
Study notes for history (1000c-ROMANO-assignment11) world war two (wwII) and cold war notes.
... States and Eastern Europe aligning with Russia. NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization, established under the North Atlantic Treaty (Apr. 4, 1949) by Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Greece and ...
What were the origins and the early manifestations of the Cold War?
... Second World War was coming to a close there emerged a new and altogether different type of war. The Cold War, as it is known, was a war where the two superpowers of the time the United States (US) and the Union of Soviet ...
Submarine espionage in: "Blind Man's Bluff" by Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew.
... Russia and the United States starts immediately after the end of World War Two in 1945. The Cold War isn't really a war at all, but an economical, political and industrial race for supremacy. One of the chief elements that characterizes both the United States and The United Soviet ...
Cold war.
... United States) are trying to prevent a World War-- not start one." During the Truman presidency, a lot of things were going on both in America and the world. The effort in halting the spread of communism in Europe and Asia occupied a great deal of President Harry S Truman's ...
McCarthy- Force for Good or Evil?
... McCarthy prevented the US from falling to communism. The fear of communism caused the American people to have increased awareness and suspicion. It allowed the government to purge communism out of all areas of American life, and ...
Cold War Canada: A time of collective security and political urging.
... Soviet Union and its occupied satellite states formed the Warsaw Pact. This military alliance was based on the same principles that founded NATO, the principle of collective security. The world's nations were now divided into two antagonistic factions, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and ...
Explain why there were such different reactions amongst Americans to the country's involvement in the conflict in Vietnam in the 1960's?
... second most costly US war behind World War 2 and because the Americans didn't think that the war would last as long as it did, they were not happy about the cost and the effects it was having on the rest of the country. The United States ...
Was the Korean War a Success for COntainment?
... world. Furthermore, he blatantly ignored the instructions of the United Nations. He followed his own aggressive policy of openly threatening an attack on China. Thus this strongly suggested the militarism of Japan in the Second World War ...