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    Cold War DBQ Between 1941 and 1949‚ the Soviet Union and the United States‚ capitalists and communists had a major disagreement about political affairs. From the Red Scare‚ to the Bolsheviks Revolution‚ communism fright has spread around the US. The United States wanted to spread capitalism and decrease communism‚ while the Soviet Union wanted the opposite. Both sides used several methods and/or tactics to stop the spread of the opposite political view. These methods used by the United States and

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    Ever since the end of world war two‚ tension between the US and USSR has constantly been present. This long constant tension between the two countries came to be known as the Cold War. Many attempts of soviet communistic expansion occurred over the span of the cold war‚ where many of those occurrences are tied to the US. Instances of communism in Germany‚ Asia‚ and Cuba could be highlighted as the most diplomatic of the cold war‚ and were all handled differently by the United States. After the

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    The Cold War: the Balance of Power & Strategic Deterrence When I was in the White House‚ I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30‚000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace. Jimmy Carter Cold war (a term coined by the English writer George Orwell) was a prolonged state of military and political tension between the two major powers that emerged at the end of the second world war‚ namely The Union

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    Alekhine’s Gun is a more traditional take on the stealth game genre developed and released by Maximum Games. With 11 missions set during the final stages of the second world war to the height of the cold war‚ is Maximum Games’ offer of crushing a vast conspiracy an enticing proposition in the end? East Vs West Spy Drama Towards the end of the second world war‚ Russian operative Alekhine is ordered to travel to Bergen‚ Norway‚ and infiltrate Bergenhus Festning. Once he has made his way into the

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    a direct result of the Cold War era. The Intelligence Community grew from the 1980’s‚ to more than 100‚000 federal employees working throughout 25 organizations specializing in numerous different aspects of collecting and analyzing data. After the Cold War ended the number of agencies and employees were reduced due to reduction in budgets and the military intelligence suffered the deepest cuts. However‚ the vast intelligence capacity had grown so large during the Cold War era that our enormous capacity

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    Cold War Historiography: New Evidence Behind Traditional Typographies Timothy J. White For Americans and many in the world‚ the Cold War dominated international relations from 1945-1991. Only the nuclear balance of terror prevented this uneasy peace from becoming all out war‚ and few if any events could be understood outside of the context of this bipolar rivalry. As the Cold War came to an end‚ some thought we had witnessed "an end to history."(1) Instead‚ we have witnessed a fundamental change

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    Madi C. The division of Berlin among the allied forces after World War II was a compromise that provided the United States with their primary weapon in defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War conflict. Victorious‚ the Allies began to divide and occupy the battered and weakened Germany on June 5‚ 1945. Areas in the western portion became American‚ British‚ and French zones‚ whilst the east was given to the Soviet Union. They will be more commonly known later as the eastern and western zones‚

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    Containment theory and the idea of pushes and pulls can be attributed to the deviant behaviour of sharing needles‚ doing drugs‚ and engaging in unprotected sex‚ because the inmates are faced with constant pushes and pulls throughout their stay in prison. A lot of prisoners come into jail with substance abuse problem (Jurgens‚ Nowak‚ & Day‚ 2011)‚ similarly some do not‚ and only once inside prison do they engage in behaviour that could create a risk to contract HIV (Chu‚ Peddle‚ & Canadian HIV-AIDS

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    Defying All Odds of Communism After the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II it was apparent that the victors would come out as the new world powers. With the United States and the Soviet Union being the strongest nations of the victorious Allies they were the two countries who emerged as the new world powers but their views varied drastically. The Democratic United States and the Communist Soviets butted heads about each others views and the U.S. wanted to halt the spread of communism so

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    Cold War In history‚ there is a disagreement among historians regarding to when the Cold War began. While most historians dated its origins to the period immediately following World War II‚ others dispute that it began towards the end of World War I‚ when tensions between the Russian Empire‚ the United States and other European countries had already demonstrated the mutual distrust and suspicion between the Western powers and the Soviet Union as a result of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. With these

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