Essays Tagged: "Potsdam"

An in depth analysis of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.

It has come out recently that this is far from true.Some weeks before, there were meetings held at Potsdam, Germany. Truman and the heads of the United Nations had come up with a package that would a ... es and the USSR began here. Truman had a strategy of a "Delayed Showdown" in an effort to delay the Potsdam meeting until after the nuclear test. He was advised that the A-Bomb would intimidate the Ru ...

(9 pages) 389 5 4.4 Jul/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The personalities of the contianment theory and the coldwar.

simply impossibility for the United States.When the big three, Churchill, Stalin, and Truman met in Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany they each had little understanding of the others moral and fu ...

(2 pages) 71 0 4.8 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Three Main Events that Caused the Escalation of the Cold war up to the Berlin Blockade

o its continuation.In my opinion the first strains in the relation between the two sides started at Potsdam more then at Yalta. When we look at Yalta we only see agreements such as "Hold free election ... agreements such as "Hold free elections in Soviet occupied territory"; "Set up UN" etc. but it's in Potsdam that the first disagreements start to emerge. For example they did decide on a few new thing ...

(4 pages) 58 0 3.6 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Do you believe that the legal drinking age should remain twenty-one or be lowered to the age of eighteen?

t the legal drinking should remain the age of twenty-one because of underage drinking. According to potsdam.edu, alcohol abuse is a significant problem among young people and a solution needs to be fo ...

(3 pages) 150 0 3.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"Ideological differences played little part in the origin of the Cold War." How far do you agree with this judgment?

n - was it in 1918, when the West fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War? Was it at Potsdam in 1945, where disagreements between superpowers came about after the Second World War and n ... at Yalta, and along with change in leadership of two of the Big Three led to many disagreements at Potsdam, these were not related to ideology. Disputes over Poland were primarily because the USSR's ...

(3 pages) 131 4 3.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Red scare, fear of communism essay. Argues that politicians used the Red Scare to gain power

f communism in Berlin and during the Korean War. In July 1945, Stalin, Truman, and Churchill met in Potsdam where they split up Germany. Britain, France, and The United States occupied the eastern hal ...

(7 pages) 116 0 4.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

Evaluate the ways in which the United States tried to contain communism (up to 1950)

od the USA applied to contain communism was agreement. This can be seen as attempt at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences of 1945. this method was as history proves not very effective because it did not ...

(1 pages) 16 0 2.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

The Korean War in the deepest darkest corner of American history

s of the Atlantic Charter, the United States and the USSR agreed to give Korea its independence. At Potsdam, the U.S. and the USSR divided Korea at the 38th parallel. Soon after, Kim Il Sung came down ...

(16 pages) 46 0 0.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

The Soviet control of East Europe.

beginning Stalin was willing to accept a coalition government for several years, tell me because of Potsdam/Yaltabut the tension that are generated by the Cold War forced these countries to accept com ...

(3 pages) 40 0 2.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

The USSR's actions against The US were simply reflexes, not direct contributions to the causation of the Cold War

.Soviet's political policies during the post WWII negotiations as seen in Yalta (February 1945) and Potsdam (July 1945) were relatively simple to grasp, because they focused on the establishment of a ... ll, since America and Britain were granted the exact same rights. And though the main contention at Potsdam revolved around the details of the division of Germany, size of the reparations to be paid, ...

(5 pages) 36 0 4.1 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

How (and to what extent) did the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam (1945) contribute to the origin of the Cold War?

auses of the Cold War and two events that continue to be discussed are the conferences at Yalta and Potsdam. Even though the war was quite imminent and something both the powers knew would ultimately ... n arrested non-communist political leaders of Poland during a meeting.The second conference held at Potsdam in Germany is seen as a bigger contributor to the origins of the war since the hidden argume ...

(5 pages) 65 1 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War

Why did the US implement containment?

After the Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945, with the increasing Soviet and British-US tensions, the expansion of th ... ady, the USSR was perceived as "paranoid and neurotic", predisposed towards violence, and after the Potsdam conference, was regarded as untrustworthy. The notion of having the Soviet military grow eve ...

(5 pages) 28 0 1.8 Sep/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers

“The Character Of The City”

everyday between random people that keeps this city distant and not as closely knitted community as Potsdam for instance, where everybody knows everyone else, and everyone knows what goes on in the to ...

(2 pages) 13 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy