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Was The Cold War Inevitable Analysis

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My aim in this paper is to provide an analytical discussion for several questions regarding wars and conflicts around the world at different periods of history. This work is a diverse views of multiple issues such as: The cold war, The independence of Algeria, Ukraine-Russian crisis and the Iranian seeking to build a nuclear weapon. My discussion depends on class lectures, scholar resources and daily media and news debates. I tried to organize the ideas from my respective understanding of the topics. However, I attempted to consider some different opinions about those issues since there are no clear interpretation or particular explanation for the historical matters. With regard to this therefore, this essay purposes to answer few arguable …show more content…

Justify your answer and explore ideas when and how it could have been avoided.
The opposed history of the Cold War was always one of its most significant ideological battlefields. The questions about the real reasons and conflicts behind the war were and are remain negotiable. Did the Grand Alliance collapse after the war because of Soviet interventionism or because of the US and European aggressive attitude toward Russians? Did Stalin pursue post-war protection or control of Europe? Was the Cold War a clash of ideologies or a competition for power and benefits? The answers about those questions vary from one opinion and another, however by determining those ideas we can build a clear assumption about how possible was the inevitability of the cold war. In my opinion the cold war was a combination of numerous circumstances, mainly the ideologies and ideas conflict between the declining communism and the raising capitalism in the new world after WW2. This core concern led to other apparent reasons such as the national security against the Soviet expansion. “the Cold War was no more than a mixture of religious crusades in favour of one ideology or the other, and of the most ruthless power politics, striking out for advantage or expansion not only in Europe but all over the world” (Larkin, P132). Therefore, if we consider the time line at that period, the great powers structure and international relations, we can conclude that the actions following to World War II such as the deviations in the global centers of power, the arms industry, the role of political authority inside and amongst states, the unstable economy, and relations between the developed and developing nations, unavoidably led to the Cold War. So, the elements for a Cold War occurred long before 1945. To condense my answer, there is not single certain cause or era of the Cold War, thus the inescapability of the Cold War shows a multifaceted argument. It could be argued, however,

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