Research paper example
The Cold War
- Subject
- History
- Type
- Research paper
- Citation style
- Chicago
- Length
- 4 pages
About this sample
The paper examines the Cold War as a rivalry between the Communist bloc led by the Soviet Union and the capitalist United States. It is organised under headings covering the states involved, non-state actors, key individuals such as Churchill, Truman and Stalin, and a realist explanation. It argues that Soviet economic weakness best explains the Cold War's outcome.
- Cold War rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union
- NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- Winston Churchill, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin
- Political realism and Soviet economic inertia
- Nuclear deterrence and Massive Retaliation
How it opens
States Involved
There existed two factions that participated in the Cold War. On the one hand, there was the Communist ideology and the Soviet Union while the United States and its capitalist ideology was on the other side. Both factions vigorously tried to find ways to build their confederates and to establish their way of life in other nations.1 Each camp alleged that the other wanted to eliminate them from existence; both the United States and the Soviet Union claimed that the other world power was endeavoring to annihilate them. Even though these anxieties were defensible, there were to a large extent, inflated and selfish.
Non-State Actors, International Governmental Organizations or Non-Governmental Organizations Involved in the Conflict
Global Non-State Actors
NATO was an essential component of the collective defense activities. Amid the Cold War, NATO's objective included averting the possibility of nuclear war. After West Germany allied with NATO, the Communist nations created the Warsaw Pact coalition. This was comprised of countries such as East Germany, Poland, USSR, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.2 NATO reacted by embracing the Massive Retaliation rule. It vowed to utilize nuclear armament if the alliance assailed. NATO's deterrence program permitted Europe to concentrate on economic growth as it did not need to form large standard armies.
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