Causes of the Cold war.

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CAUSES OF THE COLD WAR

(Literature Review)

This literature review is concerned with defining causes of the Cold War.

Its main purpose is to try to depict views of various authors presented in

texts such as “We Now Know” by John Lewis Gaddis (1997, Oxford

University Press), “Cold War Illusions” by Danna H. Allin (1998, Palgrave

MacMillan) and in “The Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949” by Martin

McCauley (1995, Longman) and other internet sources and to compare

different perspectives of perceiving the comparative approaches.

Cold war as a term has many times been explained in a bit confusing

way and its actual meaning has been misinterpreted. At first I would like

to define “Cold War” before discussing what might have led to it. What

can be agreed generally, that Cold War according to the definition of war,

has never existed. Though there was not any battling, as it was during

world wars, its influence on the post-war world era has been even

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greater.

The question is, when Cold war began and when it ended. M. McCauley

thinks it “began in 1947 and ended shortly after Cuban Missile Crisis of

1962”. (1995) If the Cold War was perceived as a sort of friction between

socialism and capitalism, it began in October 1917 and ended with the

collapse of the USSR in 1991. (McCauley, 1995)

Anyway, the first impressions of upcoming Cold War could be seen before

the end of World War II, immediately after Jalt’s Conference and ...

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