In the 1950's, both of these nations had developed nuclear weapons, which was a deterrent for both sides because massive destruction would be ensured if they began a nuclear war. As the developement of technology began to take off, both nations began to increase the ability to deliver the nuclear weapons to eachother, which was a further deterrent as the assessibility of attacks were so simple to do. Massive retaliation as a foreign policy had been utilized as a deterrent in correlation with Brinksmanship to help hault Soviet aggression in the expansion of
One, if not the most prominent way that the nuclear arms race stabilised the cold war was the threat of one being launched, both the USA and the USSR were both already threatened by the ideological capabilities of each other, which is why they feared the nuclear arms race would extend to not just trying to achieve the upper hand over their opponent. The fact that both sides were developing their nuclear weaponry and rapidly gaining a vast amount of nuclear bombs meant that it acted as a defence strategy in warning the up and coming countries who thought they would have an opportunity in joining the world superpowers, such as China. The damage that the weapons could cause were enough to not just warn each superpower of the sheer control that the other had but it warned the world too. An example of how the
week 1 Individual Cold War and Communism To consider what it would have been like to live under the threat of nuclear attack brings to mind mass hysteria. I would imagine that living under this type of threat would have been very scary. To not know when or where this kind of attack would happen would make people live in fear. I cannot truly imagine what the people then felt like or the fear they had to be living in. To know each and every minute of every day wondering if this could be their last day.
In what ways did spies during the cold war try to gain information? What did they do with this information and was it beneficial to our country? Tension after World War 2 between the Western world and the Communist world. The largest tension was between the US and the Soviet Union. After the debatable “success” of the atomic bomb there was talk of using it again Every country now wanted to know who had one, where it was kept, and when/if they would be using it Causes Differences between the US and the Soviet Union were intensified by suspicions after the war.
Beginning in the 1950s, maintaining a non-Communist South Vietnam became crucial in American efforts to contain communism. What was the nation's justification for its actions in South Vietnam in the 1950s and its determination to abide by the outcome of free elections there only if those elections yielded a non-Communist leader? For a long time the United States were in fear of the threat of communism stemming from a direct attack and the aspect of the Cold War, played a vital role in the fears. In the beginning the Vietnam War was first thought to be just another Cold War between northern and southern Vietnam. While the United States was nervous of Communism consuming the entire globe.
In October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II in Europe, the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter from physicist Albert Einstein and his Hungarian colleague Leo Szilard, letting him know that a bomb of unprecedented power could be made by tapping the forces of nuclear fission. The two scientists, who had fled from Europe in order to escape Nazism, feared that Hitler-Germany was already working on the problem. They fear this because if the Germans were to be the first to develop the envisaged "atomic bomb," Hitler would have had a weapon in his hands that would make it possible for him to destroy his enemies and rule the world. Einstein and Szilard urged the government of the United States to join the race for the atomic bomb to end this nightmare. Roosevelt agreed to join and for the next four and half years a huge, secret effort was launched in cooperation with the United Kingdom.
When Americans began to believe that weapons of mass destruction existed and decided that Iraq was providing support to al Queda, the war could be justified as an act of self defense. Bush also told Americans by invading Iraq he would bring a democracy to their country to better the policies and enforce democratic beliefs in their country. The role of the media plays an imminent part in the run up to the war in Iraq. The media repeatedly showed the planes crashing into the World Trade Centers. People were watching this horrific act being shown on every news channel for weeks after the attacks occurred.
Cold War and Communism Back during the time when there was a threat of the nuclear war, I can imagine it being a scary time. Just like any other danger that we could be faced with, it is very important to be prepared. Who would not be afraid of some brighter than the sun, that could also burn your skin, knock out windows, knock down signs, and could throw you into trees. The video showed how serious the threat was. The video was very informative.
After Roosevelt died Truman became the American president. One of the reasons is the dropping of the atomic bomb. During the Potsdam Conference Truman attempted to show he’s authority to other countries by dropping a bomb in Japan. Truman believed that America was one of the most powerful countries in the world and wanted to prove it. Another reason to why America is to blame is after the success of the atomic bomb the members of the Grand Alliance began to see changes in Truman’s behaviour as he started to control the meetings they had and Stalin refused to be bossed around so arguments between Stalin and Truman started, they started.
Cold War and Communism Paper HIS/145 September 18, 2014 Lisa Hurley As someone who was taught the duck and cover to protect themselves from an earthquake watching the video it’s crazy to think it was invented to protect themselves from an atomic bomb going off in their time. The nuclear bomb threat was the most feared thing back then. It is less likely to happen to American’s in the modern times, yet we still have the same fear of being attacked just in highly different ways. The thought of being in constant fear is dreadful to even think of now and to believe this was the biggest fear always running through their minds makes it sad to know this was normal to them. If there was a flash the first thing that had to be done was to