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This 5 page paper answers two questions posed regarding the 1950s and the cold war. The cold war is detailed and information provided pertains to the dichotomy in the 1950s between fear and satisfaction. Also discussed is popular culture, communism and women in the workforce. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the fear of Communism? The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by a journalist who wrote a speech for financier Bernard Baruch in 1947 (Safire, 1993).
Thus, Baruch testified before Congress as follows: "Let us not be deceived. Today we are in the midst of a cold war"(1993, p. 135). What he meant by that was
that during the time there was an unspoken rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. There was a build up of arms under the theory that if each
country had enough protection, no one country would be bold enough to make that first move. The cold war lasted roughly between 1945 and 1990 (Roberts, 1993). Thus, what
happened is that here was a build up of nuclear arms in both countries. It is important to understand that communism defined the cold war era. It was what Vietnam
was based upon. The domino theory suggested that if one state "went communist" the rest of the small countries would follow suit. That really did not happen, at least not
in the way feared, and while communist states emerged--and really continue to do so ideologically--the predominant chunk of nations embracing communism fell with the wall in the 1990s. Communism, the
panacea of the cold war, was something that never materialized as Marx intended. Instead, the great communist power known as the U.S.S.R. would become devastated. At the crux of the
failure was money. It was an economic nightmare and although the cold war ended, no one can take away from the fact that there was an arms build up. It
was a sort of chess game, only it seems that in retrospect, the U.S. would have won anyway. They had the winning hand in terms of arms and few
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