The Cold War Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (226) essays
The Cold War essays:
Vietnam War, Operation Rolling Thunder, 1965-1968
... U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft engaged in a bombing campaign designed to force Ho chi Minh to abandon his ambition to take over South Vietnam. The operation began primarily as a diplomatic signal to impress Hanoi with America's determination. Warning the North Vietnamese ...
Explain the differences in ideology between the West and USSR.
... political parties. In the end, differences between the ideology of the West and of the USSR can be separated into politics, economics and culture. The political policies each party had were in direct proportion to the degree of liberty and meritocracy in their respective economic systems ...
How far did the agreements made at Geneva mark a success for American foreign policy?
... Geneva mark a success for American foreign policy? After the French defeat in Dien Bein Phu an international conference was called at Geneva in 1954 in order to devise a settlement, which would end the war, enable the French ...
The Containment Theory.
... foreign policy strategy pursued by the United States after the Second World War. The term was introduced into the public debate by George F. Kennan, a diplomat and U.S. State ...
The USSR's actions against The US were simply reflexes, not direct contributions to the causation of the Cold War
... USSR and USA, but not to the extent of how much the US is responsible for, because of post-war political arrangements, US initiative in the shut-down of diplomacy and the cause of the Berlin Blockade. Soviet's political policies ...
Brief History of the Cold War
... States and Western Europe stood on the principle of opposing the communism that dominated Russia and Eastern Europe. Russia was overtaking smaller eastern European countries with force and did not want the United States to resist this movement into Europe. The two superpowers quickly abandoned ...
Who is to blame for the Cold War, Soviet Union or United States?
... wars resulted from the United States trying to contain Communism from spreading throughout the world. Thus, all of the United States' political actions further contributed to the Cold War cause. On the other hand, many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can be attributed to Stalin's policy ...
To what extent could the cold war be prevented?
... war. Kennan's Long telegram in February 1946 had marked an important adjustment in the US' foreign policy. Stalin had made a speech criticizing capitalism, thus Truman, suspiciously, asked the American ambassador in Moscow for further details. What he received had alarmed him into adopting a foreign ...
How far do you agree that the Cold War was caused by an unnecessary fear and suspicion that each side had for the other?
... United States and the Soviet Union was provoked by a misunderstanding of each other's policies; adding to the argument that their fears were illegitimate. This misunderstanding could have been solved with more diplomacy between both East and West ...
The Crisis Years
... War, when the military forces of West and East clashed and almost slipped into a global conflict. The early 1960s were all the more frightening since the two superpowers, the United States ...