The Causes Of The Cold War?
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The Cold War started due to animosity between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during World War II and only grew exponentially after the war. The two countries did not see eye to eye and “At the time Roosevelt and Stalin met at Yalta in the spring of 1945 you had two absolutely opposing views…Stalin felt that unless there were friendly governments around his border in Europe he would be as insecure as he was before and during World War II that was a nightmare he did not want to live through again, that absolutely clashed with the will of the United States.” (Superpowers Collide, n.d.) The initial impression that a democratic government, such as the U.S., and a communist government, such as the Soviet Union, could have a mutual relationship is naïve. The ideological beliefs of the U.S. wanting a free and democratic Europe to decide for itself and the Soviets wanting Europe to be state owned and under total control clashed. This “red scare”, or fear of communism, was not a new concept, as we have learned Americans trepidations of communism stretched back to pre-World War I time frame. Leading up to and following the Berlin crisis the Cold War escalated rapidly. Two contests pursued over the next three decades; one was against the spread of communism, known as containment, and the other was the arms race. The containment of communism was evident with measures in place to support parts of Europe and communist support in Korea and Vietnam resulted in military engagements. None was possibly more feared than the two races coming together directly in America’s backyard, Cuba. The spread of communism and the fear of a nuclear war came within 90 miles of American soil with “This urgent transformation of Cuba into an important strate...
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...n fact has the war done for freedom in America? It has led to even more vigorous governmental efforts to control information, manipulate the press and persuade the public…” (SDS Vietnam, 1965) The most out spoken of these protesters were that of the hippies, however, less radical citizens also felt the pressure from an expanding federal government.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the cold war started due to animosity between the u.s. and the soviet union during world war ii and only grew exponentially after the war.
- Analyzes how the spread of communism and the fear of a nuclear war came within 90 miles of american soil. the u.s. could not act innocent and offended.
- Explains that america was not isolated from the effects of the cold war at home, as the sacrifice of 95,160 american’s between the two controversial wars and the changes within the government to root out communist spies trickled down to civilians.
- Explains that the cold war started due to animosity between the u.s. and the soviet union during world war ii and only grew exponentially after the war.
- Analyzes how the spread of communism and the fear of a nuclear war came within 90 miles of american soil. the u.s. could not act innocent and offended.
- Explains that america was not isolated from the effects of the cold war at home, as the sacrifice of 95,160 american’s between the two controversial wars and the changes within the government to root out communist spies trickled down to civilians.
- Cites bowles, m., and kennedy, j. on the cuban crisis.
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- Analyzes how roosevelt and churchill agreed to a communist transitional government in poland in return for stalin signing the "declaration of liberated europe" which said nations should be able to choose their own governments after being liberated from the nazi.
- Opines that it was not the us’s actions that caused the cold war but the violations of human rights by the soviet union in their attempts to spread their influence across the world
- Explains that the potsdam conference was important to the cold war. truman was more hardline against stalin than roosevelt.
- Analyzes how the demands of stalin to be able to seize property at will and demanding severe war reparations from germany shows that the causes of the cold war were again soviet expansionism and stalin’s security concerns.
- Opines that the division of germany into occupation zones would support us expansionism by giving it a zone in germany but what happened later to west germany and that other countries had occupations zones.
- Analyzes how the allied troops pulled their troops out of the soviet zone further showing that the us was not expansionist.
- Explains that the soviet expansionism was the primary cause of the cold war. the soviet union invaded eastern europe and set up communist soviet satellite states.
- Explains that soviet expansion over europe was only stopped by allied forces when reaching germany throughout these states opposition in the forms of free speech, free press, and freedom of religion were supressed so that the people could not free themselves from the soviets and stop their plans for soviet domination of the world.
- Explains that the long telegram, containment, and the truman doctrine are examples of the united states fighting back against the soviet union.
- Analyzes how the soviets see capitalism as the enemy and will continue to try to destroy it by expanding around the world but can be stopped by displays of force as they are weak.
- Argues that expansionism is only in response to the soviet expansionists of before and their hostile actions towards the us system.
- Explains the second example of what could be seen as the expansionism of the united states. the truman doctrine was first explained in a speech to congress in march 1947.
- Opines that there is significant disagreement whether this is an example of us expansionism with some saying that it is the response to america realising just how much of a threat the soviet union was.
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