冷战论文题目

The Cold War started to develop after the Second World War when the USA and the USSR no longer had a common goal of Hitler’s Nazism. As soon as Cold War was instigated, the differences in ideology and other factors worsened the relationship between the USA and the USSR. This meant that many events such as Cuban Missile Crisis and arms race nearly led to a hot war. As Cold War progressed until the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cold War had significant impact on American , Cold War instigated strong anti-communism within the USA. The hatred towards Communism was so great that it eventually led to McCarthyism. During McCarthyism, Americans were obsessed with the process of identifying the Communists and removing those Communists from American society. The strength of this obsession increased greatly that Americans started to forget the fact that the US constitution guaranteed all Americans freedom to believe what they wanted to believe. The purpose of organisations such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the House Un-American Activities became the ‘removal of Communists’ and laws such as the Communist Control Act were passed to facilitate the process of identifying, capturing and removing Communists. The McCarran Act was also introduced, which forced all Communist organisations to be registered within the US government and banned Communists carrying US passports and working in defence industries. Inevitably, many were questioned without having done anything wrong, many lost their jobs and some even lost their lives like the Rosenbergs, who were blamed for having passed secret information about atomic bombs to the Soviet Union. This red scare continued to dominate the American society until late , Cold War made many Americans to live in fear of danger of war. This fear of war was instigated by the arms race. One example is Cuban missile crisis, which caused high tension within the USA as the missiles in Cuba could reach the USA at any time. Until the U-2 planes found the missiles in Cuba, the fear was not significant as people knew that the missiles in the USSR could not cover such long distance to reach the USA. However, the missiles in Cuba threatened the USA’s security to a significant extent that many Americans had to live in fear. Although the attitude of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was existent, the missiles in such proximity alarmed many Americans at that time. Apart from Cuban missile crisis, Americans lived in constant fear as the Cold War could turn into a hot war at any , Cold War had an impact on American people economically. The impact was caused mainly by the increase in the amount of taxes. The United States used to adopt isolationism previously, meaning that the USA did not intervene in any other foreign matters to only concentrate on the domestic issues. As soon as the USA decided to intervene in foreign matters, Americans had to pay more taxes to support the USA’s actions. These actions, including the arms race and other wars, required massive amount of capital. For instance, the Vietnam War was one of the factors that used up massive amount of capital. The Vietnam War was very different from any other wars because it was a guerrilla war between Vietcongs. The Vietcongs had successfully planned the strategies to kill many Americans without having America’s latest technology such as tanks and airplanes. As the war developed, it was estimated that it costed Americans $400,000 to kill one Viet conclude, although the Cold War never actually led to a hot war between two major powers, the USA and the USSR, it caused massive impact upon the world, including American society. The main impacts include anti-Communism, fear of war and economic damage. Of all the impacts, I believe that anti-communism is the one that caused everlasting impact on American society. The fear of war and the economical impact had short term effect while the hatred towards communism still exists within American society.

0世纪80年代末90年代初，随着苏联及其阵营的解体，以半个世纪的东西对峙为特征的冷战走向结束。在苏维埃社会主义联邦共和国旗帜骤然飘落，柏林墙轰然倒塌的时刻，全世界为之惊愕，即使那些一向以“准确预见国际关系发展的模式与轨迹”为己任的国际关系理论专家们，也不曾预料全球范围的冷战会在这个时刻以这种方式锁定在历史的时间坐标上。于是，即有国际关系理论的“科学性”遭遇质疑。人们对国际关系理论及国际关系史传统研究方法的挑战，使冷战史研究成为后冷战时期受到国际学术界高度重视的课题。一批国际学术机构相继成立：华盛顿威尔逊中心国际冷战史项目、哈佛大学国际冷战史研究中心、乔治·华盛顿大学冷战史研究组、伦敦国际经济政治学院冷战研究项目、挪威诺贝尔研究所等。它们出版学术刊物，设立网站，组织高水平学术研讨会，搜集、整理、公布档案资料，资助学者研究，在冷战史研究的热潮中推波助澜。到目前为止，在国际互联网上，有关“coldwar”的条目达700万之多。中国学者从上个世纪90年代初开始冷战史的研究和讨论，陆续发表了一批研究成果，其中部分高质量作品已经被翻译介绍到国外，互联网上的“冷战史”条目也多达28000余。他们在冷战史研究中、尤其在与中国有关问题的研究中作出了独到的贡献，其理论的更新，视角的转换，思路的拓展，方法的改变，以及在此基础上对一些重大历史问题研究的突破性进展，促进了中国历史学的繁荣和发展。冷战史研究已经成为一个新的学术增长点

冷战是人类历史上，最大的一次不同阵营的对立。在以苏联为首的华沙条约组织和以美国为首的北大西洋公约组织间进行的超过40年的最大对峙。

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