The Relations of the Superpowers Between 1945 and 1959

The Relations of the Superpowers Between 1945 and 1959

The conflict of World War II against the Nazi Germany brought the

Allied Nations, United States of America, England and the Soviet Union

together to fight side by side. During the period of 1945 and 1959

these “Superpowers” were constantly trying to undermine each other.

This alliance soon took its course to break down after bitter hatred

against one another with the threat of thermal Nuclear War. The

friendship that these countries once had led to rivalry whereby both

sides tried to out do each other by any means possible. These

countries stored weapons, and at the same time they were both in the

process of developing atomic bombs with the technology they had. The

end of World War II only marked the beginning of another war but this

time it was even more severe, and these countries took it to extreme

measures where mankind was at stake. The U.S and The Soviet Union

provoked each other by making one another look underhanded, they did

this by using propaganda, and any other such means to intermediate the

other side, but the never came to blows, this was known as the cold

war.

Following the Yalta conference between Britain, America and the USSR

on the fate of Germany, the leaders of both Britain and America had

changed by the Potsdam conference later in 1945. The purpose of this

conference was the implementation of decisions reached previously at

the Yalta conference. Unfortunately President Roosevelt died one week

before the European war was over; President Harry S. Truman continued

Roosevelt’s position as president and represented the ...

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...h the French dominated the South. The United States became

involved in Vietnam because they believed if all of the country fell

under a Communist government, Communism would spread throughout

Southeast Asia and beyond. This belief was known as the “domino

theory”. The U.S government therefore supported the South Vietnamese

government.

In 1971 the Salt 1 treaty was established between U.S.A and the USSR,

this treaty was where they would agree not to deploy any missiles, and

that both sides would dissemble their nuclear warheads.

What led to these countries hating each other is that they both used

propaganda, in a way that made the other side look belittled. In

conclusion they are both to blame for their inconsiderate actions that

could have led to a nuclear disaster where by mankind would have been

destroyed