Argumentative Essay: The Cold War

The cold war was a stressful feud between the USSR and the United States. The United States didn’t want the USSR to spread communism across Europe. Although the war never became a physical fight, nuclear weapons scared people all over. Stalin was president of Russia, and wanted to protect it, Stalin never fully trusted the United States, and the United States felt the same. Truman became president, but he was already a strong anti-communist. The Unites States had the advantage of already having an atomic bomb, this threatened Stalin and caused them to get nuclear weapons for their defense. The Cold war was caused by the United States because Truman had failed to inform Stalin on the atomic bomb in Japan, threatened the USSR with their advanced nuclear weapons, and….

“The Soviet Union was supposed to join the USA in war with Japan, but the USA dropped the atomic bomb without informing Stalin. This created a huge tension between the two parts.” (Academia.) “Truman chose to tell Stalin only that the U.S. possessed ‘a new weapon of unusual destructive force.’” (Dannen). This proved that Truman didn’t specify that he was gonna bomb the Japanese. Instead of acting as a true allie, and informing Stalin of the attack, he choose to hide it, proving that he didn’t deserve to know. This means that the United States was drifting apart form the USSR and no longer acting as the allies that still were after World War 1. This caused the USSR’s feud with the U.S, because Stalin then became angry and learned to mistrust the U.s creating rivalry between