Essays on Cold War

The Cold War was mostly an ideological dysfunction between the US and the USSR that leaded several of hostiles events that happened from 1947 (end of World War II) to the dissolution of the URSS in 1991. Many historians said that this war started in...

Forty-four seconds, this is the amount of time the citizens of Hiroshima had in between the dropping of the atomic bomb named “Little Boy” and the detonation of the bomb. This nuclear weapon proved efficient, killing 220,000 citizens. Soon after this, a hunger for power...

“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: we win, they lose.”1- Ronald Reagan. While simple in its idea, Reagan did what he promised. While Reagan may not have “won” the Cold War per se, he did navigate his way through the prospect of a possible...

How the poetry of Sylvia Plath and ONE other related text of your choice encapsulate binary metaphors of the Cold War era. Governing the post war era was a cloud of irrevocable anxiety that loomed over the world cripplining society into a state of powerlessness...

The Early Cold War period in Britain was a time of nationwide uncertainty. Britain was continuously trying to keep up with its allied superpower, America. An abundance of fiction was written by authors such as Ian Fleming, who created James Bond. Bond was a prominent...

When the Soviet Union successfully obtained functioning nuclear weapon technology in 1949, the people of the world were forced to face the prospect of their potential annihilation should the US and USSR come into direct conflict. During the Cold War, the resurgence of domestic religious...

18 years ago, in 1991, it was the year that the Cold war had ended. More than four decades of the geopolitical tension between two superpower nations – the Unites States and the Soviet Union, however, there are still a lot of debates going on...

Propaganda can be defined as a mode of communicating which is used to manipulate and influence public opinion in support of the propagandist’s belief. Propagandas take shape in art, movies, speeches and music over the years, but it is not restricted to forms like these....

The idea of socialism had been making the rounds in European intellectual circles when in 1948 Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto. He believed to create an equal society it needed to be classless and stateless, and that to achieve this (and the liberation of...

The years after the Second World War was full of unrest for Vietnam. The Vietnam war which simply started off as what seemed to be civilians trying to gain independence became more of a common ground for the superpowers to express their influences in relation...