The Cold War: Who is to Blame?
The Cold War was the period in history in which for 40 years the world was under the constant threat of total destruction, caught between the nuclear stockpiles of the United States, Great Britain, and France on one side and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China on the other. Any conflict between the forces of democracy and those of communism could trigger a nuclear tragedy of such overwhelming size, horror and suffering that would result in total extermination of the human race. How do you spell insomnia? From this conflict arise some burning questions. Did the Cold War have to happen? What caused it? Did the superpowers have any alternatives to the choices they made? Could they have done things differently? What caused the Cold War? The Cold War lasted from the end of World War II to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, was one of the most important political events of the 20th century. Historians tend to view the "Cold War" as a result of American hostility. A more traditional view places the blame on the Soviet Union. However, The most common view of the Cold War basically believed that it was a conflict between two superpowers, caused by Soviet aggression, in which t
Despite the fact that something had to be done to prevent the Soviet's from gaining any more power, The superpowers could have made a few smaller decisions and done several things differently. One such event was the Korean War. The U.S had some delusional notion that if communism was not wiped out in Korea, the communist plague would spread to the west through the domino theory. We helped out South Korea, and many lives were needlessly wasted. The U.S should have stayed out of this foreign conflict. Another such event was the McCarthy communist witch-hunts. This "witch hunt" was a showing of U.S paranoia about communism. People were accused on communism left and right. This event was an embarrassment and the U.S superpowers should have known better; the war was with the Soviet Union, not the American people. A third Cold War event that could have been handled differently was the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba during the Cuban missile crises. This attempted invasion of Cuba by the CIA horrible failed its purpose, and in the end a small country with a 460-year history of struggle for independence, achieved the first victory over U.S. imperialism in the continent. Should John F. Kennedy have approved it? I thin
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