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Cold War Politics

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An 8 page paper answering two essay questions about the Cold War. The first is to describe domestic factors affecting 4 Cold War episodes, which are the Truman Doctrine, the formation of NATO, the launch of Sputnik and the Cuban missile crisis. The second is to outline the situation that Richard Nixon faced in choosing whether (and how) to continue the policy of containment as it had been established and practiced from the end of World War II. Bibliography lists 8 sources.

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8 pages (~225 words per page)

File: CC6_KScoldWarPol.rtf

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a time of immense unrest in all of the world, and frequently within the United States. Practicalities and higher ideals often coincided in response to overt offensive action of the Soviets and Chinese, but the costs of acting as policeman to the world eventually took its toll on the American economy. Throughout the Cold War, practicality and ideology traded leading consideration with regularity. 2. Discuss "domestic" factors in four major U.S. Cold War episodes (your choice which ones) from 1947 to 1980, and evaluate their importance compared to international factors of the time. A. The Truman Doctrine For six long years, all of the developed world had been involved in a war resulting from a madmans quest to rule it, and to shape it as he believed it should exist. The US had been directly involved for four of those years, losing many of the soldiers it had sent for the liberation of several European nations, among them Britain, France, and even the USSR. Virtually all manufacturing facilities in the US had been converted to wartime use during those years, interrupting the progress of the free market economy as Detroit factories turned out tanks rather than cars, and textile factories produced Army uniforms rather than childrens clothes. Then, barely a year after the Allies liberated the concentration camps established by one totalitarian regime, another begins imposing its own political ideologies on neighbors against their will. The Soviets began imposing communism on neighbors in 1946; Truman did not announce the Truman doctrine until 1947. Domestically, Americans realized that we had sat back far too long during the decade of the 1930s, staying out of affairs that had nothing to do ...

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