How Did the Cold War Affect the Politics of Germany and Italy?

When first entering class, I thought the Cold War was only an arms and space race between the Soviet Union and the United States. I never exactly knew where, when, or how the Cold War had been fought. However, I quickly came to learn that the Cold War was an expansive escapade to dominate international affairs. The Cold War expanded like a curtain slowly falling over the globe. The war soon encompassed most of the world and had made its mark on almost every continent on Earth. Some of the locations that took effect were Asia, the Middle-East, various countries in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean Sea, and most obvious of all, the United States.

The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition existing after World War II between the Communist World – primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies – and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States and its allies.

During the Cold War the powers of the Eastern and Western Bloc were states of tension after World War II. The war between the United States and the Soviet Union had lasted about half of the second century where there were many stages to finish this war. There are several documents and speeches that help explain and support what had occurred during the Cold War. It had brought heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster. The Cold War brought many effect around the world such as economic depression, divisions, and fear.

The Cold War was an over 40 year war between the former World War II alliances The United States and The Soviet Union. This was a war that begun by political disagreements, harsh anti-communist words from Winston Churchill, and a power imbalance between The Soviet Union and The United States. Though it was a war, a new, lethal weapon was used to emotionally harm the opposing country rather than causing physical damage.

The Cold War took place after World War II between the years of 1947 and 1991. It was a struggle for supremacy between both the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was to dominate international affairs for decades. Major crises occurred such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary and the Berlin Wall being just some of the resulting issues. For many, the growth in weapons of mass destruction was the most worrying issue because it is always unknown as to what they could be used for. Neither side ever fought the other because the casualties would be tragic, but they did ‘fight’ for their beliefs using client states who fought for their beliefs on

The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union took place after the World War II until the early 1990s. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were at the Cold War which employed nuclear arms race, space programs development race, weapons developments, counter-intelligence, military alliances, and propaganda. This Cold War made the world fear for the possible World War III. Ally nations for both sides were divided into either the democratic or the communism which were either on the United States side or the Soviet Union’s side. This Cold War was a political and strategic method to gain strategic territories for the military purpose and also for the economic gains.

Germany was occupied by four major powers, the western three zones become west and the East Germany is a communist. Germany Capital Berlin,

The Cold War is the term used to describe the intense rivalry between the United States and its allies and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics and its allies. The Soviet Union and its allies were refereed to as the Eastern Bloc and the United States and its allies were referred to as the Western Bloc. The Cold War period lasted from the mid-1940’s until the late 1980’s. During this period international politics were shaped by this intense rivalry between this two great blocs of power and the political ideologies they represented. The United States and its allies represented democracy and capitalism while the Soviet Union and its allies represented communism. The Cold War was truly a global conflict more

The Cold War lasted from 1947 to 1991. The Cold War was the wars of multiple threats and possible inflation of earth but ended with invasions and hostility from nations across the world. The Soviet Union and the United States and worked together to defeat their enemies in World War two, which ended with the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atomic bombing had left the hundreds of thousands dead as well as a new fear of the United States power. Since the United States and the Soviet Union had worked together both now contained the atom bomb blue prints, creating hostility between the two great nations. Thus, the deadly “ arms race” had begun. No only was there fear of nuclear warfare but also fear of the development of

When WWII came to a close in 1945, Stalin’s military forces raced to Berlin, establishing their government in many countries along the way. Berlin, the capital of Germany, was a gem amongst the spoils in the eyes of the United States and the Soviets, and both of the superpowers wanted to control the German capital. In the end, Germany and Berlin, although well inside the German border, were divided into four zones. The Soviets received the east, and the West was divide amongst the allies (France, Britain, and the United States).

Germany and the Japanese had captured tons of land around them, which had to be reversed to free those countries. The germans had their eastern border moved westwards of the Oder-Neisse line. The Oder-Neisse line was the border between Germany and Poland. So this change gave a lot of Poland's land back that the Germans initially took during the war. Locations of Germany and Austria were divided into 4 occupational zones, along with their capitals, Berlin and Vienna. Austria, Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, and other areas in Poland had their Nazi annexations

At first it seemed as relations were going well between the Soviets and America, with both parties agreeing to let the Soviet reclaim land lost by Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, as well as a new international organization known as the United Nations. The United Nations was the biggest thing to come out of the Yalta Conference because of the disagreements that would precede this agreement. One of the first disagreements was in the disagreement between the Soviets and other allied nations about the future status of the Polish government and whether it would be democratic or communist. However the government was already pro-communist because of the occupation of Poland by the Soviets and installed the “Lublin” Poles. There were still pro-Western “London” Poles and Roosevelt and Churchill agreed that they must be a place for them inside the Polish control by the Soviets. Stalin would agree to this and promised that there would be a democratic election that would be “unfettered”, but this did not happen until 1989 for the pro-Western Poles. Now for Germany Roosevelt wanted to unify Germany and reconstruct the nation, Stalin wanted heavy reparation payments because of the damages they caused to the Soviets during the war. This would lead to a vague agreement that did not accomplish much in the end much like the Polish agreement did. The rest of the European nations would produce similar agreements that did not outline much in their accord and very broad when it comes to democratic representation and responsibility being on the will of the people of such nations. The Yalta Conference overall did not accomplish much as for post war issues and did not present set principles on what would be done with the European nations affected by this great

"Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Italy, taking into consideration the agreement, which has been already reached in principle for the cession to Germany of the Sudeten German territory, " Source 3 from The Munich Pact. The United States made the right descision to stay isolated because they would get more negative effects than positive effects. Britain and French should have not let Hitler do what he would do and do something about it. Britain and French practiced appeasement because they gave Hitler everything he asked for. The U.S. practiced isolationism due too the loss of 100,000 americans soldiers lost in WW1, so they decided to stay out wars, etc.

After World War II ended with the defeat of Nazty Germany and the victory of the Allied Powers, conflicts aroused for Germany’s territory. Leaders from the allied powers United States, France, and United Kingdom; and the Soviet Union, the four powers divided Germany into four occupation zones for equality purposes. This division was approved at the Potsdam Conference in 1944 the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union had agreed on the zones. The Allied Powers occupied west Germany, while the Soviet Union ruled east Germany. Also, the capital of Germany, Berlin lied in the center of east Germany so they divided that into four zones.Later on, France and the United Kingdom gave their territories in Berlin to the United States, which also later on becomes known as East Berlin and West Berlin.

The Cold War was between two superpowers, USA and the Soviet Union. During this war, there were no physical attacks made. ‘But the two superpowers continually antagonized each other through political maneuvering, military coalitions… and proxy wars between other nations’ (J.F. Kennedy Library & Museum). The most important feature of this war was an ideology clash. The USA wanted the expansion and continuance of capitalism whereas, the Soviet Union wanted to preserve communism. This war ended by 1990, with a US victory. The war had important effects on the politics of both Germany and Italy and this essay will address how. One factor that will be addressed is how the deterrence and the consequences created by NATO and the Warsaw Pact affected the