The Cold War Decades: The Cold War

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Cynthia Davila-Chase
Mr. Brown
English 11B/Period 5
23 March 2014
Decades - The Cold War
Today, there is a single event in history that which still has an effect on the entire world. It is one among many is still discussed and debated over of it’s beginnings. Source for many social and political going-ons in the world, the Cold War is that event. So what precisely was the Cold War? Since the country had won independence and started as it’s own, we have always fought for our freedoms and the natural rights of man. The war was an arms race and a battle for individual countries’ freedom from communism in the east, and so it was therefore our duty to protect those other countries from oppressive dictation. The common enemy that is spoken of in many pieces of literature regarding the war always point their fingers at us, and that enemy was Russia. Thanks to Stalin’s ongoing invasion back in those times, today many countries are still impacted economically and socially in the east; some countries still remaining split, such as Korea, divided north and south. As such, the Cold War originated between the conflict, between the US and the UN (Soviet Russia), the UN being at fault for the most part.
The very first initiation of the Cold War started with the Yalta conference. The conference was held in east Yalta in the February of 1945, two years before the war officially began. Held by the heads of the Ally powers, Joseph Stalin of Russia, Winston Churchill of Britain, and Theodore Roosevelt of the US, it began the very first steps taken into the cold war. The conference was set in order to discuss the fate of Germany and it’s affiliates after WWII. As Germany was deemed at fault for the second world war, it was then held responsible for ...

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...from friends and family on each end. The barrier was then secured by other military tactics such as wiring, alarms, dogs, and sentries among other means. It was marked to prevent the immigration of the people that would morally interfere with the split between free and communist Germany. Many attempted to escape to the other side of it to reach elective regions, but it was unfortunately too much of a risk of life to cross. The wall fell almost 40 years later with the coming protests and rebellions of the late Cold War associated with other events in the 80s, and even when it was taken down there were still limitations to crossings between the east and west. The Cold War and the UN’s initiative events on Berlin had lasted nearly to this decade, and so goes to show how far it’s spread had influenced today’s countries and served as origin for the start of the war.

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