The Inevitable Spread of Soviet-backed Communism in Eastern Europe At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the United States were principle players involved with reshaping post-war Europe. The region most affected policy changes was Eastern Europe, which includes those states that would eventually fall behind the Iron Curtain. While the camaraderie between the Big Three deteriorated, Soviet-backed communism was spreading across Eastern Europe. The argument during this
The Korean War was a tragic event that started on July 25, 1950 and ended with a truce on July 27, 1953. America had feared the Soviet Union would bring communism to other countries especially in Asia. Korea had split after World War II. The Soviet Union had backed the government in the north and America backed the government in the south. They both agreed that the 38th parallel would split North from South Korea. However, o July 25, 1950, North Korean troops passed through the 38th parallel and
supported by the Soviets, and the pro-Western Republic of Korea (South Korea). The U.S. got involved in the Korean War because of the spread of communism. So in an attempt to stop communism the U.S. supported the republic of Korea. The other reason to why the U.S. got involved in the war because China started invading Taiwan and the U.S. took responsibility in protecting Taiwan. Korea was originally under Japanese rule since the beginning of the 20th century, but after WWII it fell to the Soviets in the north
in 1948–53. In this period the Soviets unsuccessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin (1948–49); the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe (1949); the Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead (1949), thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb; the Chinese communists came to power in mainland China (1949); and the Soviet-supported communist government
people were very interested in communism. The United States tried containing communism and hoped it did not spread around the world. After World War II, communism looked great for many countries that were now in need of help from the government. Communism was just what they were looking for. All the countries that were interested in a communist style government, The Soviet Union always backed them up. This was horrible for the US and they tried to contain communism and tried to keep it from spreading
political and military tensions between the United States and our allies in the Western Bloc, and the pre-existing Soviet Union and their allies involved in the Warsaw Pact. If not had been dealt with very carefully, the Cold War would’ve gained a new name after much likely nuclear warfare between world powers. This caused the U.S. to put a new step in their strategy to contain communism. The U.S. started taking the side of any anti-communist country that the USSR tried to gain control of. This was
and the Soviet Union, characterized by ideological, political, and military competition. Central to the U.S. response to the perceived threat posed by the Soviet Union were two pivotal documents: the Long Telegram and NSC-68. These documents outlined contrasting assessments of the Soviet Union and proposed divergent strategies for handling the perceived threat. This paper aims to analyze the key insights of the Long Telegram and NSC-68, highlighting their differing perspectives on the Soviet Union
policy was to defeat the Soviet Union by preventing it from expanding the territories under its Communist control or otherwise extending its influence. This, naturally, resulted in strained relations and rivalry between the two superpowers. Despite the many difficulties, American policy of containment during the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War did manage to contain the expansion of Communism to a certain extent. The containment of communism in Korea was successful
competition and confrontation between communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Western democracies including the United States” (N/A, 2023). It was a war that turned society against one another, fighting through the battle of economic systems. However, this war was different from others. There was tension and rivalry, but no fighting. The United States and the Soviet Union went head-to-head battling for capitalism (US) or communism (SU). Some people believe that the Cold War was very “cold”, however
The word communism has always been a sort of taboo word to say. Even today we call people commies to make fun or tease people. Why did all this start? How did communism become a bad a word? Well communism has always been feared since the birth of our nation. It was the form of government that the majority of Americans did not want. Communism is basically a theory or system based on the ownership of all property and goods by the community as a whole. This system would destroy a lot of the liberties
“Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”Mao Zedong, (Mao Zedong Quotes).Communism is nothing but a practice of the government, a necessary evil that countries enact in order to accomplish feets. This is not the opinion of a conservationist but the opinion of a communist dictator of china who killed more people than Hitler and Stalin, at an astounding total of 78 million civilian deaths. This harsh practice causes fear to those who live under communism and
Did the U.S. help create Al Qaeda an anti-American terrorist group responsible for multiple attacks on U.S. Soil? In Soviet Afghan war the United States backed resistance fighters to fight against the USSR. After the war some of these fighter went on to create the Taliban, and Al Qaeda. In this paper I will write about how backing the resistors in afghanistan came back to bite the United States in the butt. In the 70’s Russia was providing millions to Afghanistan’s government. In 1973 Mohammad
from leaning towards Soviet Union-based communism, as first laid out by George Kennan and later used as one of the key principles in the Truman Doctrine (LeCain). As this essay will argue, because of this policy the United States made a commitment to fight communism everywhere in the world and got them involved in conflicts more because of self interest, self protection and determination to beat communism than the cause itself. The fear of communism first emerged after the Soviet Revolution in 1917
QUESTION 2: The Cold War is an international conflict, a global fight between the United States and the Soviet Union that began in Europe in the wake of World War II but quickly expanded into Asia and the Third World. These international events, however, undoubtedly influenced domestic American politics between 1945 and 1965. How did the international Cold War shape, influence, or change domestic American politics in the first twenty years of the conflict? II. BACKGOUND Odd Arne Westad, Director
The possibility of a nuclear war laid on the hearts and minds of American officials every day during the period known as the Cold War. With the slightest miscalculation of Soviet intentions or erred judgement in communist maneuvers America could have been thrust into a war with the Soviet Union an equally dangerous nuclear nation. In some ways the knowledge that both sides possessed enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world helped contain the situation but in other ways it only added more strain
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the United States and the Soviet Union, which had existed since the end of the World War II. The conclusion of the Cold War can be attributed to Gorbachev’s series of liberalizations in the 1980s, which exposed the underlying economic problems in the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc states that had developed in the 1960s and 70s and prevented the USSR from being able to compete with the US as a superpower. Nevertheless, Reagan’s policies of a renewed offensive against communism, Gorbachev’s rejection of
eventually the world.” Though their opponents were also Marxist the Bolsheviks were the most militant, least tolerant and most revolutionary. After toppling the remaining dictatorial powers during the October Revolution the Bolsheviks created multiple Soviets and disclosed all the secrets of the tsars, including the treatises that had been made with other countries. All of this was done in an effort to expose the corruption of the capitalist countries and the old regime. What the party did not count on
(US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) affected political, cultural, and economic developments in the third world by enacting new foreign policies, plans, and actions taken by these superpower countries. The opposing ideologies of the US and
the reason that the Soviet Union was against America. The way that America dealt with the USSR was to treat them as if they were not a part of international politics. This engrained affinity for mutual distrust between the two nations and a palpable tension between emerging superpowers. The initial American policy against the feared Soviet Union’s takeover was containment. This policy was enacted due to the fundamental difference in ideology from the two countries. Communism could not succeed where