Cold War

Examples of Cold War in the following topics:

• The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

  • The costs of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as its numerous proxy wars, were extensive.
  • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today.
  • Many of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War, and the incidence of interstate, ethnic, and revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises, has declined somewhat in the post-Cold War years.
  • Many specific nuclear legacies can be identified from the Cold War.
  • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.

• The Effects of the Cold War

  • The balance of power in the international system changed after the end of the Cold War.
  • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today.
  • The legacy of Cold War conflict is not always easily erased, as many of the economic and social tensions that were exploited to fuel Cold War competition in parts of the Third World remain acute.
  • Among the more specific consequences of the Cold War was a huge fiscal mortgage placed on many domestic economies.
  • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.

• The End of the Cold War

  • During 1987 summit meetings, Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to nuclear arms reductions, ushering in the end of the decades-long Cold War.
  • Reform required Gorbachev to redirect the country's resources from costly Cold War military commitments to more profitable areas in the civilian sector.
  • In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War was officially declared over at the Malta Summit on December 3, 1989, and—two years later—the Soviet Union collapsed.
  • Reagan and Gorbachev built a close relationship and contributed greatly to the peaceful end of the Cold War
  • Describe the events that led to the end of the Cold War

• Conclusion: Truman and the Beginning of the Cold War

  • The first phase of the Cold War began in the first two years after the end of the Second World War in 1945.
  • The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War.
  • Historians often use Truman's speech to date the start of the Cold War.
  • However, because of the American policy of containment, the Cold War saw several "proxy wars," such as the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
  • Summarize the factors that led to the rise of the Cold War and Truman's policies with regard to tensions with the USSR

• The "New World Order"

  • Bush used the term "New World Order" to try to define the nature of the post-Cold War era.
  • The most widely discussed application of the phrase of recent times came at the end of the Cold War.
  • Bush used the term to try to define the nature of the post-Cold War era, and the spirit of great power cooperation that they hoped might materialize.
  • The phrase "new world order", as used to herald in the post–Cold War era, had no developed or substantive definition.
  • He advocated strengthening the central role of the United Nations, and the active involvement of all members—the Cold War had prevented the UN and its Security Council from performing their roles as initially envisioned

• Superpower Rivalry

  • World War II had served to enhance U.S. global power.
  • By 1947, the United States took the lead in containing Soviet expansion in the Cold War.
  • The idea that the Cold War period revolved around only two blocs, or even only two nations, has been challenged by some scholars in the post-Cold War era, who have noted that the bipolar world only exists if one ignores all of the various movements and conflicts that occurred without influence from either of the two superpowers.
  • Additionally, much of the conflict between the superpowers was fought in "proxy wars," which more often than not involved issues more complex than the standard Cold War oppositions.
  • For example, the Vietnam War was an example of a proxy war.

• The United Nations

  • While some conflicts were separate enough from the Cold War to achieve consensus support for peacekeeping missions, most were too deeply enmeshed in the global struggle.
  • Neither of these disputes were seen to have Cold War or ideological implications.
  • The UN also assisted with two decolonization programs during the Cold War.
  • With the end of the Cold War, a number of nations called for the UN to become an organization of world peace and do more to encourage the end to conflicts aroun the globe.
  • A number of missions were designed to end civil wars in which competing sides had been sponsored by Cold War players.

• National Security

  • As a measure to ensure national security in the midst of the Cold War, President Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 on July 26, 1947 .
  • The act and its changes, along with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, were major components of the Truman administration's Cold War strategy.
  • Perhaps the most memorable aspect of the Cold War civil defense effort was the educational effort promoted by the government.
  • Civil Defense literature such as Survival Under Atomic Attack was common during the Cold War Era.
  • Outline the ways in which the Cold War shaped U.S. national security policy

• Origins of the Cold War

  • The origins of the Cold War can be traced through numerous conflicts between the Soviet Union and Western nations starting with the Russian Revolution in 1917.
  • Those events led to the Cold War that endured for just under half a century.
  • Indeed, the bombings served to fuel Soviet distrust of the United States and are regarded by some historians not as only as the closing act of World War II, but as the opening salvo of the Cold War.
  • The Cold War had begun.
  • Summarize the conflicts that lead to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union

• The Truman Presidency

  • The Truman presidency was characterized by an internationalist foreign policy, the Cold War, and domestic unrest.
  • He presided over an uncertain domestic scene as America sought its path after the war and tensions with the Soviet Union increased, marking the start of the Cold War.
  • The Soviet Union, a wartime ally, became a peacetime enemy in the Cold War.
  • Cold War strategy, Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947, which reorganized the military, and also created the CIA and the National Security Council.
  • To bring a quick end to World War II, the U.S.