Cold War - General Outline using Two Sources.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:13:02
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1537 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 6 pages (1537 words)
The Cold War was a conflict involving half the world, and lasting from 1947 until 1985. It was a confrontation of East vs. West which was very close to becoming an outright war.
After World War II the two main governmental systems each wanted to rule and dominate; the Capitalist/Imperialist and the Communist/Socialist. Both were occupying different sides of Germany (America and Britain on the west side, and Russia on the east side).Both wanted
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We Will Soon Miss The Cold War by John J. Mearsheimer
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/mearsh.htm
Wikipedia: Cold War: (1947-1953) and its Origins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1947-1953)_and_its_origins
Woodrow Wilson Internation Center for Scholars: Cold War International History Project
http://wwics.si.edu/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home
World Powers n the Twentieth Century, BBC and Heinemann Educational Book; London 1978 Harriet Ward
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