Cold War Essay
Essay should be a minimum of 2 pages in length, typed and double spaced, answer the questions below. This essay can be considered “semi-cumulative,” you’ll need to pull information from several chapters from your text book (Give Me Liberty 6e Volume 2).
The Cold War lasted half a century and impacted every facet of American life during that span. Explain the origins of the Cold War and the tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union. Explain the main American strategy for the Cold War and how the U.S. fought the conflict itself. What are proxy wars and limited war, give examples of each, and explain how they are different from total war? Give specific examples showing how the Cold War and the nuclear threat affected American society at home? How did the government try to mobilize the American public and keep U.S. society separate from that of the Soviets? Explain why and how the Cold War began to wind down during the 1970s and why that trend reversed in the 1980s. What factors caused the Soviet Union to collapse during the 1980s and finally end the conflict?
