Weapons of the Cold War Two overly powerful sides never get along with each other. After World War II, the United States and Soviet Union’s alliance broke down as they both became the most powerful countries in the world, therefore, the Cold War started. “Weapon” is anything that causes damage and harms. Weapons used in Cold War were not all physical deadly weapon, but they were indeed powerful weapons in the form of technology, alliances, and psychological influences.
he first chapter of The Cold War: A New History begins by comparing the United States to the U.S.S.R. and talking about the similarities between the two. It also talks about Communism and how Marx deemed it necessary in order to build up the economy. Lenin tried to implement Communism in Russia. They were not quite ready for that kind of system, so Stalin tried to modernize the economy. The U.S.S.R. had more casualties in World War II, but things were not necessarily looking great in America either.
The command economy, beginning in 1920 is an economic system where the government determines what goods are to be produced and the price range for those goods. In this case, the focus is the Soviet Union under Vladimir lenin and other soviet leaders. The Soviet Union’s weaknesses and Military burdens eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Command Economy. The Soviet Union’s weakness’ was the lack of societal attention, bad manufacturing, and the lack of agricultural advancements and farming .
This approach is consistent with relative power since security enhancements in one country depend on similar changes in another nation. As such, states may experience a security problem since they must take another country’s armed potential and foreign policy into account. Thus, defensive realism promotes collaborations between nations regarding the development of security-seeking strategies. This form of realism advocates for moderation in creating security approaches due to the possibility of massive variations in international expansions. The conditions for developments ensure that states consider relative power when entering into collaborations with
America faces its greatest dilemma, yet. The American government is telling the citizens of the United States that that World War 2 is drawing towards a conclusion, in Europe. The newspapers are all reporting an almost assured victory. Italy has long since surrendered. It’s being reported that Hitler has holed himself up in a fortress that was specially and specifically built for him.
The Arms Race was one of the greatests events that happened in history, it also shaped history as it is today. I will take you through the Arms Race and what happened. Although foreign countries were beginning to join the war it was becoming a dangerous problem, all Humans and small businesses were being affected by the Arms Race, because everybody wanted weapons so the government wanted a greater demand for weapons and also a better police force. The Arms Race took over many people's lives and also made people very mad at the government because they were not getting any money. This made a lot of businesses shut down and put the world in a major debt.
The art of fear is essential in nuclear deterrence. Using the film Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) I will argue that nuclear deterrence is hard to achieve when communication of nuclear capabilities is not well established amongst states. In this paper, I will use the film Dr. Strangelove (1964) to argue how theories such as deterrence theory, realist theory, security dilemma, preventative war, pre-emptive war as well as relative gains and zero sum game led to a failure to achieve nuclear deterrence between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. To make my argument on how more nuclear weapons may hinder deterrence, this essay will proceed as follows; I will firstly discuss the how nuclear deterrence and mutually
Shortly after the end of World War II, United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two superpowers. These two former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Since 1956, Eisenhower had authorized the use of the U-2, a high-flying spy plane, to conduct secret reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union. These flights were used to obtain information that would stop rumors of Soviet military superiority and give detailed footage of military establishments. Because the Soviets lacked aircraft and missiles to shoot down the U-2 spy planes, the US was not worried that they would be caught spying and even if they were somehow accused they could always deny its existence even when it was spotted
Scholars of International Relations have been studying John Herz’s Security Dilemma (SD) since the 1950s and it has become an essential part of the realist IR theory. Herz’s description of “a structural notion in which the self-help attempts of states to look after their security needs tend, regardless of intention, to lead to rising insecurity for others as each interprets its own measures as defensive and measures of others as potentially threatening” (Herz 1951, p.7) has aided scholars to analyse complex political situations where this Dilemma has triggered outcomes such as WW1. Nevertheless, there are several voices reconsidering if the SD is still applicable to the issues politics has to face today, terrorism being one of them. This leads us to the following statement: “The rise of transnational terrorism has transformed the Security Dilemma”. In the following essay I will argue that transnational terrorism, along with historical factors, has indeed slightly transformed the SD but that its true essence remains the same.
Economically the U.S. had made advances in technology and began to get oversea territories. Culturally they had used the
In the contemporary political landscape, one of the most heavily discussed sociopolitical issues is international nuclear proliferation. From the rising nuclear threat in North Korea to the aggrandizement of potential terroristic threats, international relations specialists have long pondered how the fear perpetuated by the spread of nuclear weapons can be alleviated. As one can likely infer being that nuclear proliferation has not ceased, the conclusion to this dilemma cannot be met without serious contemplation. Being that different specialists operate under the pretenses of different international relations theories, there are a plethora of perspectives from which one could theorize about the two most paramount dilemmas when it comes to
The security dilemma is when a state seeks to protect itself, it instills fear in surrounding states. This leads to instability and arms races which can cause conflict. It begs the question, why increase state security if it might undermine security? Realism does not believe that international organizations can temper relationships between states. However, as Tang points out, defensive realist states rely heavily on international organizations to limit the security maximization capabilities of their neighbours.
There were two impulses that ran through America, which emerged from that second world war. The number one was hostility and distrust. This war happened when the United States was the most powerful and they tried to use the power to make a new global ordered democracy and capitalism. This made an ideological and military known as the Cold War. The Cold War was a postwar that economic and military contrast with the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Cold War was a period of intensive tension between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) and the United States of America (U.S.A) that spread and disturbed the global relations and peace throughout the world. It was a struggle for global supremacy between the communist U.S.S.R. and the capitalist US. It began after World War II in 1947 after the Yalta Conference and ended only in the eighties or 1991(historians have not fully agreed to the dates). During this period there was no actually wide scale fighting or ‘hot war’ between the two powers directly but the situation was such that it increase the likelihood of a third World War. On one side there was U.S.S.R. and its allies namely Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and later China (1949), they formed the Eastern Block.
Both sides feel anxious to be his country 's security so that each other is the other thought competitors and must be defeated. Every party wants to gain power and preventing another party dominating power. International politics as an arena of competition to defend national interests and ensure survival. National security is the goal of every State and as a benchmark in determining foreign policy. The war is considered to be a way out of a conflict.
