cold war

COLD WAR

2006

Cold War

Introduction

Looking back throughout the world 's history , civilizations have gone through things that would seem like an exaggeration of the truth today World wars , genocide , starvation and revolutions have shaped the roads which lead us to the modern age of human culture today . Leaders of the world created monuments and museums to remind us of the road we have taken . Even in such times , they have realized the importance to take lesson from the past , from the mistakes we have made . Within this

we are taking a glimpse of the past , to learn about the origins of the cold war and how the have influenced our country is various ways

Origins of the Cold War

II .1 What is The Cold War

In the most common definition , the cold war was political , ideological and economic struggle that emerge between the Soviet Union and the Unites States (and allies ) right after the Second World War The struggle occurred between 1947 and 1991 . It was called the cold war because real physical confrontation never occurred between the superpower nations The `war ' was happening in the form of arms race (including nuclear weapons , developing military alliances , economic warfare (which involves trade embargos , etc , political propaganda , and intelligence warfare (espionage . There were always risks of full range nuclear war with tremendous casualties however , the closest event to a war is the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1962 , which ended with US , triumphed over the Soviet Union by means of international diplomacy (Gaddis , 1972

II .2 Basic Argument

The causes of the cold war are not so difficult to define . However historians and have various opinions of what factors contributes more to the tension between those superpower countries . Steven Kreis (2000 ) for example , stated his believe that the most influential factor contributing to the cold war was the fear over differences and change Both governments (especially Americans ) could not accept the existence of another country with such contradictory economical and political principles

Communism is practically impossibility for Americans . Despite the existence of groups of socialist and communist in the United States long before the world war , they were usually very small and incapable of delivering a single word in public . Therefore , when Mother Russia made a revolution and united under an ideological structure called communism the United States could only react with a deep sense of fear and threaten . After the Red Scare in 1920 , it is clear that Americans harshly rejected socialist and communism . Facing the tremendous flow of hatred from the United States , there is no choice for the people of the Soviet Union beside to return the favor in similar manner (Kreis , 2000 II .3 Who are to Blame

In to obtain a full view of the causes of the cold war , we need to consider every perspective regarding the cold war . Citizens of both country might favor perspective that justify their nation , but it doe not mean that a neutral view is...