Cold War Dbq

Luis Diaz
APUSH
03-13-18
PD.5

Short Answer Rewrite
Why might someone make the case that the Cold War was a success?
The Cold War reached its peak in 1948–53. In this period the Soviets unsuccessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin (1948–49); the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe (1949); the Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead (1949), thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb; the Chinese communists came to power in mainland China (1949); and the Soviet-supported communist government of North Korea invaded U.S.-supported South Korea in 1950, setting off an indecisive Korean War that

lasted until 1953.From 1953 to 1957 Cold War tensions relaxed somewhat, largely owing to the death of the longtime Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953; nevertheless, the standoff remained.

A unified military organization among the Soviet-bloc countries, the Warsaw Pact, was formed in 1955; and West Germany was admitted into NATO that same year. Another intense stage of the Cold War was in 1958–62. The United States and the Soviet Union began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in 1962 the Soviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on U.S. cities. This sparked the Cuban missile crisis (1962), a confrontation that brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned above ground nuclear weapons testing. But the crisis also hardened the Soviets’ determination never again to be humiliated by their military inferiority, and they

began a buildup of both conventional and strategic forces that the United States was forced to match for the next 25 years.

Which president played the most significant role in the Cold war?

The thirty-fifth U.S. president, who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program. Kennedy was elected in 1960, defeating Republican Richard M. Nixon. Feeling that their hands were tied by Eisenhower’s policy of “massive retaliation,” Kennedy and members of his foreign policy staff devised the tactic of “flexible response” to contain Communism. Kennedy sent “military advisors” to support Ngo Dinh Diem’s corrupt regime in South Vietnam and formed the Alliance for Progress to fight poverty and Communism in Latin America. He also backed the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, which ultimately led to the Cuban missile crisis. President John F. Kennedy’s failed plan to invade Cuba and topple revolutionary leader Fidel Castro with an army of CIA-trained Cuban exiles in 1961. Although Kennedy had originally intended to use the U.S. Air Force to help the exiled Cubans retake the island, he unexpectedly withdrew support shortly before the operation started. As a result, the invasion failed utterly, actually consolidated Castro’s power, and pushed Cuba into signing a treaty with the Soviet Union. The crisis that occurred when Cuban leader Fidel Castro sought economic and military assistance from the Soviet Union after the United States’ failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. The Soviet premier, Nikita Khrushchev, capitalized on the failed invasion, allied with Castro, and secured from Castro the right to place nuclear missiles in Cuba. Upon learning of the missiles, President John F. Kennedy ordered a naval blockade of the island in 1962 and demanded that Khrushchev remove them. Nuclear war seemed imminent until Khrushchev finally backed down, promising to remove the missiles if Kennedy ended the blockade. The United States compiled and also agreed to remove from Turkey nuclear missiles aimed at the USSR. The Communist Party leadership in the USSR removed Khrushchev from power in 1964 for having backed down in the standoff.

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Ytxzae Enriquez
APUSH
03/13/18
P5

Short Answer Rewrite

Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States and he served for the United States of America from 1969 to 1974 . There could be arguments for saying that he was a great and there could be arguments for saying that he was a bad president. Nixon was not a great president compared to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Dwight D. Eisenhower was was the 34th president and he served for two terms. Despite the fact that they were two different president , Nixon was not a better president than Eisenhower. Richard Nixon was involved in the theft of multiple government papers and was going to be impeached. The fact that he stole from the government shows what kind of president he is. In 1977 there was an interview that Richard Nixon participated in. This was an interview with David Frost, a writer and television host and Nixon said “ When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.” There are many things that Richard Nixon did that were not legal and he basically said that the rest of the United States could do illegal things. On the other hand, Dwight D. Eisenhower was a great president. Dwight D. Eisenhower installed the Highway Interstate act. The Highway Interstate act made 41,000 miles of road crossing the United States. The highway was used for military transportation. Tanks and weapons were transferred throughout all the United States. Not a lot of people know this but he actually Founded NASA. Without NASA we as a human species would not have all the information of space and time. NASA still goes on to this day and everyday the people that work for them discover new ways for moving forward and discover new planets.
Arguments could be made saying that the Cold War was a success.

The Cold War was a war fought from 1945 to 1990. The war did not end until the Berlin Wall was destroyed. The Berlin Wall was essentially a wall that divided Germany into two parts : the East and the West. The United States Entered the war because they were not in favor for Russia's communist beliefs. Russia wanted to spread its communism throughout Asia and the western countries of Europe. Some could say that the wra was a success because communism was not spread at the end the Soviet Union lost the war. After the war was ended Germany became one whole country again. For the United States the war was successful because communism did not spread to countries that were of interest to the United States. Countries like Japan, Mexico, and some countries from the middle east were being looked at by the American government and they did not want communism to spread. Because the Soviet Union lost it broke up into very small republicans and agreed with the terms of the war. The war was a success because of all these reasons. In the eyes of the Soviets the war was not a success. The war was a way to spread it’s belief and to hopefully gain more territory. During the war the making of the Berlin Wall was a success but it wasn't until 1989 when the wall was broken down. All in all the war was a

success.