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U S President Alger Hiss
787 wordsThe Cold War was a war of words, not violence, that began in 1946. This was signified by competition, tension, and conflict between the Soviet Union, and the United States. In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill gave an address at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo, about foreign affairs of the time. In it he uttered the following quote: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent (of Europe). " These words, in some respects, were the beginni...
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War
1,460 words... rooms stationed there. He also gave money to the two governments. This policy was then called containment the prevention of communist expansion. Truman officially announced this policy in a speech on 12 March 1947; this speech has later been called the Truman Doctrine. With the Truman Doctrine came the Marshall plan, an attack on Communist roots. This was an idea from General George Marshall. The idea was to give money to any country under threat from being taken over by the Soviet Union, so...
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Greece And Turkey France And Britain
1,102 wordsFrom when World War II ended in 1945 all the way up to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Cold War dominated international affairs. It was a global struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the Cold War was sometimes fought on the battlefield, it involved everything from political rhetoric to sports. Overshadowing all was the threat of nuclear war. From an American perspective the Cold War was largely a war on communism this outlook by the US caused and sustain...
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World War Ii United States And Russia
1,106 wordsAfter World War II, a struggle between the Communist nations and the democratic nations occurred which is known as the Cold War. The United States had a policy set up that clearly stated that any nation invaded by a communist country would have the assistance of the United States Government in controlling Communism expansion. This theory was known as containment. Containment was used throughout the Cold War, and the policy appeared to be a success by stopping communist Russia. Was the United Sta...
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Ho Chi Minh 38 Th Parallel
1,168 wordsThe Cold War was characterized by mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings by the United States and the Soviet Union. At times, these conditions increased the likelihood of a third world war. Elementary and Middle School books tell about the cold war being the struggle of the evil east against the democratic west. This leads students to believe that the cold war was one major battle, but really the cold war was made up of many smaller events. The United States accused the Soviet Union o...
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