... draw my conclusion from the analysis and decide which leader had a greater influence on the outcome. B. Summary of Evidence 1. The Cold War After World War II, a struggle for ideological, economic & military global supremacy between the USA and her ...

... as a threat to the capitalist world system, with many capitalist countries such as the USA being fearful of this new state. The socialist economy that Soviet Russia tried to create was based on state ownership which put the needs ...

... economic and military support of the Soviet Union, were constant irritants to large numbers of voters (Quirk, 347). Because the uprising of such powers near the United States borders, the CIA felt the need to try and eliminate them. In ...

... as the growing lack of trust, American Imperialism and the Russian threat were also incredibly influential in the cause of the Cold War. The ideological differences between the USA and the USSR had existed since 1917, when the Bolshevik revolution and ...

... by autocracy and Stalin ruled using an authoritative regime. Therefore whilst the communists gained central control and grew stronger over time, the Tsars lost more central control over Russia and increasing difficulties arose, their central control was passed to other ...

... in other countries. Each block's vision of the world contributed to East-West tension. The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. The Soviet Union, however, tried control areas it considered vital to its national interest, ...

... in other countries. Each block's vision of the world contributed to East-West tension. The United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles. The Soviet Union, however, tried control areas it considered vital to its national interest, ...

... of the available options should be promoted to the incoming Administration. . Summary of Past Policy The United State's initial stance on Cuba was one of tolerance towards the Castro regime in order to provide this government a chance to establish a ...

... War II and Middle East affairs. It will only get involved whenever its interests are involved or if it stands to profit from intervention. Even the majority of people in the US know nothing more than what's happening in their ...

... to have to turn to communist support for the freedom of his people. Since the United States viewed helping Ho gain his independence from France as a move against their own allies, they declined. It was only after Russia and ...

... in control, but a party, whose officials both at central and local level would, to some degree, be accountable to elected bodies. Greater freedom of discussion, and scope for autonomous social groups would characterise a society in which party state ...

... action which neither was able to prevent. There are several views as to whose fault the Cold War was and these views can be traced back to the inter war era. However the topic for debate mainly seems to be ...

... & SALT 2, Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty and START, effectively contained and managed the spread of Nuclear Weapons However, Détente was more than simply a process of containing and reducing nuclear weapons. It gave way ...

... important role in the end of the Cold War?; what factors bring about the end of the Cold War, the actions and decisions of individual statesmen, or long term impersonal factors or Berlin Wall in Germany from 1981-1991? While the ...

... of maturation of Russian communism, taking of its routine form. Stalin's style of administration was voluntarism: the highest power forced the dependents to live and to work the way the power wanted. In fact, a real fight against Stalinism began ...

... countries in Eastern Europe, reparations, the foundation of the United Nations, the control and use of atomic technology- and both sides had very different ideas about the post-war world. As each side recognised the other as their ideological enemy, it ...

... was a Spanish colony, between 1510 and 1898; the second one, when Cuba faces the neocolonialism of the United States from 1898 to 1959; and last one, the actual period of the Socialist Revolution. The Cuban Revolution was very important for ...

... strove with all the energy in my power against Communism, because at that time I considered Communism, with its idea of world revolution, the greatest danger to the British Empire ... Nowadays German Nazism, with its idea of the world ...

... period between the Democratic and Communist blocs, the East and the West, and most importantly, the United States and the Soviet Union. Although this period has now come to an end, many disputes have been raised concerning the initial conference ...

... he would seek and destroy communism with his dynamic foreign policy he was duty-bound to increase defence expenditure and foreign involvement. Many historians would agree that another reason why Kennedy got involved with Vietnam was that he was only to aware ...

... presidency was that the United States foreign policy needed a modification after the Reagan years. It mostly needed focus. However, George Bush did not seem to be the kind of president who could do it, although he had enough experience ...

... the biggest reasons was that, in 1949, Chinese communists took power in China. This frightened the Americans because it showed them that communism was spreading and it made them think that if communists could take over such a big, powerful ...

... the countries involved but also had a great bearing on European and World Politics. Prior to 1989 there had always been much speculation concerning the future of the communist states, but it had always been misleading. Through all these predictions ...

... conspiracy theory, which claims that President Roosevelt withheld vital information from responsible officers, thus keeping the Pacific Fleet in Hawaii open for attack, with the intention of U.S. involvement in the European War. Roosevelt knew it would be impossible to ...

... in a communist run country when they were reaping the financial benefits but they could see that a free market economy had many benefits against their current system. The personalities of various leaders can be seen as vital to the ...