Causes Of The Cold War
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After the two non-ending World Wars came another long war known as the Cold War. Two sides fought this war, one of them was the United States of America, and the other side was the Soviet Union. Each one of theses sides had its own way of governing. Although both sides couldn’t manage to lose more people after World War II, they still got into war from 1947-1991. The reason behind the cause of the Cold War was viewed in several different perspectives. Although there are many views, the post-revisionist view provides the best reasoning for the occurrence of the Cold War. The Ally Powers, America and the Soviet Union’s two different ideologies of communism and capitalism after World War II were what caused the occurrence of the Cold War.
World war II was a war that was followed by World War I. World War II was a series of hectic battles that lasted from 1939-1945. These battles were fought between two groups of countries, the first group was made up of Germany, Italy, and Japan. This group of countries was known as the Axis Powers. The other group was the Allies that included France, Canada, India, New Zealand, Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States of America. These chains of combats took place in Asia, North Africa, and Europe. During May of 1945, the battles in Europe were over with the victory of the Ally Powers, nevertheless the Pacific combat prolonged until August of 1945 due to the resistance of Japan. Not long afterwards, the Ally Powers dropped two atomic bombs that were targeted on Japan. The first atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, and after 3 days the second bomb that struck Nagasaki followed it. The striking of the two atomic bombs from the Allies resulted in Japan’s surrender. The surrender of Japan finally marked...
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...termediate the Soviet Union. Therefore, the traditional view blames the Soviet Union entirely while the revisionist view blames the United States completely.
The Cold War was caused by three views known as the traditional view, the revisionist view, and the post-revisionist view. After the long lasting battle between America and the Soviet Union the main reason behind the Cold war was the two different beliefs that America and the Soviet Union had. America believed that the world ought to be governed with Capitalism and the Soviet Union believed that the world must to be governed with Communism. The differences between the ideologies were thoroughly explained by the post-revisionist view of the Cold War. Until this day, Russia and America are two world superpowers that are considered as very strong nations that have not yet come to complete peace with each other.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that after the two non-ending world wars came another long war known as the cold war. the post-revisionist view provides the best reasoning for the occurrence of the cold war.
- Explains that world war ii was a series of hectic battles that lasted from 1939-1945. these chains of combats took place in asia, north africa, and europe.
- Explains that the cold war arose due to ideological struggles between the two world superpowers.
- Argues that the traditional view blames the soviet union for the cold war while the revisionist views blame the united states of america.
- Explains that the cold war was caused by three views known as the traditional, revisionist, and post-revisionist view.
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- Causes of the Cold Waranalytical essayIn this essay I would like to highlight my understanding for the causes of the cold war. In fact, "the cold war" called in that name because of the struggle which is followed the World War II between superpowers: US & USSR. Both of sides work hard to widen their potency and narrowed the conflict, but it found overlap in it, which raise the stress and the struggle. The struggle lengthened from the end of the of second world war, middle of 1940s to the end of 1980s in 20th century, and the result was USSR collapsed in 1991, end of the cold war. The aim of this essay is to draw the attention to the people who don't aware that the fundamental cause of the cold war was a clash of ideologies between the superpowers, because of increased the radices of ideologies of this war and many historians negotiate for the causes. First of all, I started with the structure of the cold war (the origins of the cold war). During this section I argued that why the conflict started?, and who was the inciter? to be the introduction of the causes. Secondly, I would be deeper to prove the cause, so I would argue about some schools of thought, the orthodox or traditionalist thinkers who blamed the Soviet for the confrontation and give some historians views to prove this school. Thirdly, another school declared (revisionist people) who thought that the cause was US because of the Soviet looses which the Soviet suffered during the war. In addition, I analyzed some historian's suggestions for Truman. Forth point and final school (post-revisionist people) and they thought that both of sides played part in the escalation of the conflict. Finally, I would give my typical answer for the question and prove my ideas which I reached to the actual cause of the cold wa...
In this essay, the author
- Argues that the cold war was a clash of ideologies between the superpowers, which led to the collapse of the ussr in 1991.
- Explains that the cold war was a clash of ideologies between the superpowers of the united states and the ussr.
- Explains that the issue was covered by propaganda that led to the development of several schools of thought. all these perspectives make valid arguments, but none can provide a definitive answer.
- Explains that the orthodox view of the cold war has never really gone away. traditionalists blamed the soviets for the conflict, citing george f. kennan's long telegram and mr.
- Compares the'revisionists' who blamed the us for the cold war with the traditional view.
- Explains the post-revisionist school, which investigates the case in both sides, and concedes that each side played a part in the escalation of the conflict.
- Concludes that ideological clashes caused the cold war, stating that there was no possibility of compromise for marxism-leninism states.
- Argues that the clash of ideologies did not cause the cold war, but caused the causes of it.
- Cites hobsbawn, e., age of extremes: the short twentieth century 1914-1991, london: michael joseph.
- Explains mccauley, m., the origins of the cold war 1941-1949, 2ed edition, london: longman.
- Cites gabriel, k. (1969), the politics of power: allied diplomacy and the world crisis of 1943-1945, london: weidenfeld and nicolson.
- Explains mccauley, m., the origins of the cold war 1941-1949, 2ed edition, london: longman.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the cold war is the rivalry between the soviet union and the united states that followed world war ii and shaped world politics between 1945 and 1989.
- Explains that the cold war began in 1945 and ended in 1991. it was between the world's two military powers, the united states and the soviet union.
- Analyzes how the cold war afflicted the world for more than four decades, with lingering effects even today.
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- Analyzes how the cold war tensions stemmed from the fear and paranoia that gripped american society.
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- Explains that stalin believed that russian security meant that eastern european states should stay under soviet control.
- Explains that the western press believed the conference was successful, but there were still problems and disagreements between the soviets and the anglo-americans.
- Explains that both the u.s. and the soviet union claimed they did not want use hydrogen bombs, leaving the world in doubt on what would happen next.
- Opines that the nuclear arms race was central to the cold war and that america and russia massively increased their abundance of nuclear weapons.
- Explains that both american and soviet experts aimed at using nuclear weapons to bring out concessions from the one another, or from powerful countries like china.
- Analyzes how stalin's pre-cold war actions were the reason for the cold war.
- Explains harbutt, fraser j. yalta 1945: europe and america at the crossroads. rhodes, richard.
- Explains that roosevelt, churchill, and stalin met in the crimean city of yalta to discuss allied war aims. stalin wanted to gain economic aid for his dismantled nation, regain the territory he lost during the russo-japanese war.
- Explains that stalin wanted germany to pay twenty-thousand dollars in war reparations, in which half of the money would go to the soviet union. churchill and roosevelt were not satisfied on the agreement on poland.
- Analyzes how truman and the soviet union entered into an arms race, each side attempting to match or outdo the military strength of the other.
- Compares and argues on two viewpoints debating whether yes, stalin needed the cold war in order to be a good reason for restraint in the u.s.
- Analyzes how the source gives two different opinions on stalin's decisions and actions on whether or not he wanted the cold war to take place.
- Explains that "levine, isaac don" is a primary source; in 1939 levine spoke with the soviet intelligence.
- Analyzes how levine's source provides us with an unfiltered access to the record of stalin’s regimes.
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- Describes cold war as a state of political hostility between countries, characterized by threats, violent propaganda, subversive activities, and other measures short of open warfare.
- Analyzes how the ussr and the soviet union used propaganda to fight the cold war.
- Explains that economic aid for nations, especially europe, was another weapon used to fight the war.
- Explains that the "arms race" was a method of delivering the message that they could fight back when the other side attacked their country.
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- Explains the three common viewpoints regarding the study of the cold war, which are attribution, structural, and misperception.
- Explains that after world war ii, the united states and ussr changed roles from allies to enemies. the end of the cold war in 1989 caused the international relations community and the world at large to pause and think about what caused it.
- Explains that the ussr was treated as a unitary actor during the cold war. it was expected to dominate the world as an aggressive monolith with expansive ideology.
- Analyzes how the structuralist view contends that the international system created the cold war. the european balance of power system was replaced by a stable (relatively predictable) bipolar system.
- Explains that the misperception view believes in just that, misper perception between the two belligerents. mirroring is seeing the other as we see ourselves in the mirror
- Explains that william appleman williams considered the us the aggressor in the cold war. the policy of the "open door" created the environment that "closed the door to any result but the cold war."
- Analyzes how the ussr felt threatened by the nuclear armed us. the us, in remaining firm in its policy of the open door, backed by atomic weapons, "crystallized" the cold war.
- Analyzes how robert jervis explains the origins of the cold war from his book perception and misperception in international politics.
- Explains that mirroring is the projection of one's own perceptions onto another. the us and ussr saw each other in terms of themselves and applied logic of how they perceived the threat instead of looking at the problem from the other side.
- Analyzes how schlesinger presents a combination of attribution and structural argument for the origin of the cold war.
- Explains schlesinger's two competing views are "universalist" and "sphere-of-influence"
- Explains that the ussr was a totalitarian state, run by leaders who saw the capitalist world as threat to the existence of the state. nothing short of total annihilation would suffice in its quest for the marxist-leninist nirvana.
- Analyzes how stalin's paranoia directed the way the ussr was seen by the world. all the dictators of the 1930s and 40s did all that they could to stay in power.
- Argues that the three authors provide some answers to the origins of the cold war. they reject attributism, structuralism, or misperceptionism, but the answers do not answer definitively the whole question.
- Explains that the entire system was created from the ashes of the european balance of power system; without the previous system there would be no foundation to create a bipolar system.
- Explains that the attributes of the major actors played a large role in this war. without the ideals of players, the deals struck would have been very predictable and lifeless.
- Opines that misperception between states is reality because politicians are human. applying the mirror image of yourself onto another is natural in the human world.
- Opines that the three views brought together make up a human story of the cold war.
- Proposes that all three views can exist at once to explain the origins of the cold war.
- Explains that schlesinger, arthur jr., "the origins of the cold war", in phil williams, donald goldstein, and jay shafritz, eds.
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- Explains that the cold war began after world war ii. the united states and the soviet union had growing tension during the war.
- Explains that the cold war was characterized by mutual distrust, suspension and misunderstanding by both the united states.
- Analyzes how the clash of very different beliefs and ideologies, capitalism versus communism, formed the basis of an international power struggle with both sides vying for dominance.
- Explains that the cold war came with both benefits and downfalls, such as an arms race and the development of strategic arms.
- Explains that the cold war's attacks on nuclear weapons and communism led to both sides feeling uneasy. the soviet union’s biggest threat to america was missals stock piled in cuba.
- Explains that the united states strategy was to hold the soviets at bay with the threat of nuclear attack.
- Explains that spies and spying became part of the game during the cold war due to the threats each other faced.
- Explains that information covertly acquired in britain ended up with the kgb during the cold war.
- Argues that the united states had no choice but reverse the expansion of an communist state whose main ambition was the overthrow of capitalism, democracy, and other aspects of western culture.
- Concludes that the end of the cold war saw the emergence of a uni-polar world that had the united states, the only existing power.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the cold war escalated due to the representation of capitalism and democracy in the united states and the communism and dictatorship of the soviet union.
- Explains that the americans advocated free market capitalism while the soviets promoted communism. the u.s. is the world's dominant economic power.
- Explains how the cold war impacted many aspects of american society. differing economic viewpoints resulted in contrasting claims of what freedom meant to the united states and the soviets.
- Explains that the cold war impacted the everyday lives of most american civilians. the fear of communism and "in-house" spies caused lives to be ruined based on weak evidence.
- Analyzes how george kennan called for containment of russia's expansive tendencies. the marshall plan was enacted to prevent the spread of communist influence in war-torn western europe.
549 wordsRead More - Comparisioncomparative essayThe name Cold War ultimately describes the relationship between the two superpowers of that time, which were United States, and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was a continuous battle, which lasted decades, to determine what nation between the two had more political and military power. In this essay I will be discussing some of the major events that occurred from each decade of the Cold War from the 1940s through the 1980s. Although, there was not direct fighting between the US and Soviet; there was many major crises, including the Berlin Blockade, Korean War, U2 plane incident, the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan, and the Strategic Defence Initiative just to name a few. These are the events I will address in this essay. Also, I will clarify on who caused the crisis, which side was responsible, and the outcome of the whole event.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that the cold war was a continuous battle, which lasted decades, to determine which nation had more political and military power.
- Explains that the berlin blockade initiated the first crisis and the possibility of war between the united states and soviet union.
- Explains that the korean war was the first armed conflict of the cold war and set the standards for conflicts in the cold war.
- Explains that president eisenhower planned the worst debacle of his presidency, which was the u-2 spy plane incident.
- Concludes that the cold war was a conflict between the two major superpowers over political and military power.
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- Describes the cold war as the relationship between the united states of america and the union of soviet socialist republics.
- Describes the iron curtain as a physical and ideological division that separated the warsaw pact countries from the nato countries.
- Explains that the satellite nations serve as a buffer between an enemy country and the commanding satellite. they were controlled by the soviet union and dominated politically and economically.
- Explains that fidel castro was born in 1926 in biran, and his father was a sugar planter. he studied law at havana university and joined the cuban people's party in 1947.
- Explains that the berlin wall was used to attract the attention of the young american president john f kennedy who was searching for his place in history with the role he played in the cuban missile crisis.
- Explains that the bay of pigs invasion was an unsuccessful attempt by the united states backed by cuban exiles to overthrow the government of fidel castro.
- Explains that the warsaw pact is the nominal counterweight to the north atlantic treaty organization on the european continent.
- Describes president harry s truman's policy of helping any country fighting against communism, followed by the marshall plan, which is the european recovery program.
- Explains that the korean war began when korea was invaded by the soviets and the us at the end of wwii. they decided to divide the peninsula in two-north and south.
- Explains how the demilitarized zone between the north and south korea acted as a buffer to prevent war and the 38th parallel was the focal point for negotiations.
- Explains that the korean war ended by the north korean forces were pushed back to the 38th parallel- the line that was the border before the war started. truman stepped up bombing raids on north korea and hinted at using the nukes again.
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