The Cold War and Reagan
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The Cold War and Reagan
Topics
What was the cold war?
What were the causes?
The Cold War at Home.
-The U.S. involvement.
What major roles did President Reagan serve in the cold war?
A cold war is defined as "a conflict between nations for national advantage conducted by political, economic, and psychological means instead of direct military action." The Cold War defined by the same source was determined to be "the contest for power between the communist nations headed by the Soviet Union and the nations of the West headed by the United States that began after World War II"(Barnhart & Thorndike, 198).
Causes of the Cold War included the struggle between conflicting values, those of Democracy in the West and statism in the East. After WWII the re-establishment of Eastern European countries destroyed in the war led to much disagreement about governmental structures, the West wanted Democracies with capitalist systems while the East (USSR) wanted a communist regime. The USSR would then be able to use the countries as buffer states against any further attack. This attack on the Soviets that might come would not take long to go through the buffer states protecting them against the new mechanism of war. World War II had created fear in the Soviets, mainly because of the use of the Atomic Bomb, and therefore they pushed towards nuclear technology. The label "iron curtain" was placed on the barrier existing between the Soviet bloc and the rest of the world, this idea was pushed by Winston Churchill to further British power in Western Europe. Forty-six years of a blind war followed and the West and the East fought "a war of nerves."
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...The Cold War was fought through the build up of arms, technology, and psychologically on the home front with a battle of nerves.
Works Cited
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In this essay, the author
- Explains the cold war and reagan's role in it. cold war is defined as a conflict between nations for national advantage conducted by political, economic, and psychological means instead of direct military action.
- Explains the cold war's causes, including the struggle between conflicting values, such as democracy and statism in the east.
- Explains that after world war ii ended, threats of war with the soviet union began to circulate. since americans and soviets both fought for what they thought right, neither could come to an agreement with each other on how to rebuild the broken european nations.
- Explains the cold war and reagan's role in it. cold war is defined as a conflict between nations for national advantage conducted by political, economic, and psychological means instead of direct military action.
- Explains the cold war's causes, including the struggle between conflicting values, such as democracy and statism in the east.
- Explains that after world war ii ended, threats of war with the soviet union began to circulate. since americans and soviets both fought for what they thought right, neither could come to an agreement with each other on how to rebuild the broken european nations.
- Explains that the marshall plan was a plan adopted by the united states for giving financial aid to european nations. eastern europe suffered due to the economic strategy of josef stalin.
- Explains that nato formed an alliance with western europe and the united states in 1949 to separate themselves from the countries of the east. the korean war was an example of capitalism versus communism.
- Explains that the cold war meant many things to americans in the united states because it came with it. the house committee for un-american activities investigated citizens in search of communists.
- Explains that reagan was involved in the arms race when he proposed "zero option," the removal of all ss20 missiles from asia and europe, and a 700,000-person march on new york.
- Analyzes how reagan's new strategic defense initiative, known as star wars, caused arms control talks with the soviets to produce nothing. during the years following the war terrorism was an ever-present threat to the lives of americans.
- Analyzes how reagan's administration led to less emphasis on the soviet union and on problems brewing in the middle east. reagan and gorbachev disagreed at the 4th summit in moscow.
- Analyzes how reagan sought for prosperity and peace with strength never trying to compromise the united states standard in any way. the cold war was fought through the build up of arms, technology, and psychologically on the home front.
- Cites the following sources: ac.acusd.edu/history/20th/coldwar8.html, icdweb.cc
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