Conceptions Of The Cold War

Published Date: 02 Nov 2017

Conceptions of the Cold War

Haley Hoover

SS310-03 Exploring the 1960's:An Interdisciplinary Approach

Harold Dawson

April 30, 2013

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Conceptions of the Cold War

Throughout the years of the Cold War there was an eye for an eye relationship between the

United States and the Soviet Union. If Russia launched sputnik, then America would respond

in retaliation with their own space launch. The entertaining thing about the cold war was that

the United States and Russia even had their own war space. As a matter of fact the main reason

that the Cold War as long as it did was because both countries were fighting in a roundabout

way. If they would have just come out in the open and fought, it would have been over much

sooner.

Ultimately the frigidness between both nations started to take over other countries as well and

it became a war of the Communist vs. the Non-Communist and Democratic nations. The

pressures only climbed and both the United States and Soviet Union had nuclear weapons.

This is why both countries were keeping quiet because nuclear weapons could destroy the

whole world.

Presidents and Prime Ministers on both sides come and went but the war never ended. Every

president of the United States took the war personally as a commander in a battle and it became

a contest of who would do better. Once and for all it was George W. Bush that called the final

shots and also because Mikheal Gorbachev back down.

Interviewee #1 (My Dad)

What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War?

The words and phrases that come to my mind when I think of the term Cold War are

communism, spy's and the Cuban Missile Crises.

Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that

you remember?

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Yes, I did study the Cold War when I was in school. The aspects of the Cold War that I

remember are the spy's, communism and the Cuban Missile Crises.

Who were the parties involved in the Cold War?

The parties that were involved in the Cold War were The United States and Russia.

Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War?

Some of the key events that I would say would be mainly associated with the Cold War would

be the Cuban Missile Crises...Bay of Pigs.

Interviewee #2 (My Aunt Linda)

What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War?

The words and phrases that come to my mind when I think of the term Cold War is The Cuban

Missile Crisis.

Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that

you remember?

No, I never studied the Cold War in school because it was happening as I lived in the early

1960's. I remember people being very scared and building bomb shelters.

Who were the parties involved in the Cold War?

The parties that were involved in the Cold War were The United States and U.S.S.R (wasn't

Russia at that time.)

Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War?

The blockade of Cuba by the United States military and all SAC (Strategic Air Command)

bases were put on full alert to attack, if they had to. All bombers were loaded with nuclear war

heads. It was a scary time and everyone practiced for a bomb alert.

Interviewee #3 (My Brother)

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What words or phrases come to mind when you think of the term Cold War?

The words and phrases that come to my mind when I think of the term Cold War is the Berlin

Wall.

Did you ever study the Cold War in school? If so, what are some aspects of the Cold War that

you remember?

Yes, I studied the Cold War in school. Some of the aspects of the Cold War that I remember is

that there was a great fear of nuclear war.

Who were the parties involved in the Cold War?

The parties that were involved in the Cold War were the United States, Russia, and Germany.

Can you name any key events that we mainly associate with the Cold War?

Some of the key events that I mainly associate with the Cold War are the Cuban Missile Crisis

and the intelligence-counter-intelligence that was between the United States and the Soviet

Union.