The Cold War
The cold war and its effects on today's society has been a mystery on its causes to most if not all historians. Most will not agree on one particular event that happened creating this cold war, but most agree it was a series of events. Oil, arms, W.O.M.D (weapons of mass destruction) and the space race could all been seen as events, but not one pinpointed. The U.S had been allies with the Soviet Union during WWII and seemed to be working out until political fears of communism taking over the world rang over Washington. And also how the Cold War had actually helped the Civil rights movement making it stronger and how they got the Government to work for them. I will be explaining causes for the cold war and a brief history of it and how it affected not only the U.S, but a whole world as well.I would define the Cold War, as a war without battles. Although all the other components of war i.e. armies, weapons, propaganda, events etc and two opposing sides (the West vs. the East) were there, there were no battlefields. No Generals led their armies to war and no direct conflict ever took place. However it is difficult to identify a starting point because there was no single action that could be pinpointed a
A fear that we would lose our freedoms to communism, but we forget to look on the brighter sides of things it brought change within the U. Soviet propaganda lashed the United States for its treatment of blacks. People back then were given the ideas that ducking under a desk would save them, and that building a bomb shelter would help when in reality none of these would have really helped if a full on nuclear invasion had come. Yet only three years after the war ended, Roosevelt's successor, Harry S Truman, embraced the cause of civil rights. Anxious to erase this stain on America's reputation, the Supreme Court, in its celebrated decision Brown v Board of Education (1954), declared that segregated schools were unconstitutional (Dudziak, Mary). But most importantly would be how the United States and the Soviet Union would react to the new Asian states. s the event that started the Cold War. This was a major victory for the West and meant that until the end of the Cold War Russia only ever had part of Berlin and the West had a 'foothold' in Russian controlled territory. Black Americans were given rights and people were getting a glimpse of freedom they would expect in the future. The Yalta and Potsdam conferences partly fit this definition as a starting point because the Allied leaders and Stalin met and had conferences where there were some disagreements and some differences became clear(http://pup.
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