Summary: From Allies To Enemies

France was so set on their plans to attack the Germans head on at Alsace and Lorraine that they didn’t see the Germans grow strong in a huge area of French northern territory where there was plenty of agriculture and manufacturing that they greatly disadvantaged themselves. Tuchman’s assessment of the Russians was: “They entered the war without confidence and remained in it without faith.” In that first month, the Russians were so disorganized and unprepared that they took too long to get seriously into the war to matter much. The Russians were harmed by the weakness of Minister of War, General Sukhomlinov who “...bragged about not having ‘… read a military manual for the last twenty-five years.’” President Wilson of the United States wanted to remain neutral in the war so that at the last minute the U.S. could join the Allies become the savior of the

There were two main causes of tension between Russia and the West from 1941 and 1945. One cause, according to historians was the disagreements over a Second Front being opened. Tensions arose due to the West’s perceived delay in opening a front, the front being used as a political tool by Stalin and the perceived lack of supplies and materials being sent to the soviets as aid. A more significant cause of tension, however, is believed by some to be Stalin’s attempts to create a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and his actions in Poland.

There were several events that lead up to the Cold War. In 1943, the Greek communist is defeated. The Yalta Conference and Postdam Conference escalated tensions. Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech happened on March 5, 1946. Marshall's Plan happened in 1947-1951. Truman Doctrine happened March 12, 1947. In 1948 Communist takes over Czechoslovakia.

The U.S and the Soviet Union had mistrusted each other from the beginning, which started the Cold War. when the U.S was attacked on December 1941, The Soviet Union had made an alliance with them along with Britain, which soon followed with the U.S supplying their allies with military supplies. During their alliance against the fascist powers, Stalin was suspicious which made “The Soviets believed that the Western Allies had

From the years of 1941 to 1949, there was an increase in suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a Communist country ruled by a dictator while America was a capitalist democracy that valued freedom. Their completely different beliefs and aims caused friction to form between them, which contributed to the creation of the Cold War.

The Cold war began due to political and military tension due to World War II. The Soviet Union and America were two world superpowers that fought for a change in government and world supremacy. America feared a communist expansion from the Soviet Union and created many policies, laws, legislations, and pacts to protect democracy on the home front as well as internationally. The Cold War stemmed from the Soviet Union’s failure to maintain their integrity to the group of nations in the Yalta and Potsdam Conference. Soviet leader, Stalin invaded Eastern Europe and started the communist expansion in regions that were promised to be untouched. The consequences of his actions resulted in the Cold War. American reactions to the Cold War were justified

The Cold War - an ideological conflict between Communist and non-Communist nations, started after World War II. It happened because of the disagreement of the Allies - United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union on how to govern Germany. Another reason was that it was because of nuclear weapons. This happened because when two nations have destructive power on their hand, they started to doubt if they can have trust that power in other nations

Right after the Second World War ended, the prolonged Cold War between communism and capitalism began. This war lasted about 45 years between the United States and the Soviet Union. After the fall of the common enemy, Nazism, these two nations became instant global rivals. They fought over human rights, democratic elections, individual liberties, and religious freedom. America wanted every nation to be free like itself. This push for the Soviet Union to be the same started the Cold War. Just like any other war, after it was over it brought many different new challenges to America, like great lost from war, the Red Scare, and new threats.

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as the two new superpowers and as archrivals. The United States wanted to keep the Soviet Union from spreading communism by force so the United States came up with a plan of containment, which was to block the Soviet Union wherever possible to contain the spread of communism therefore beginning the Cold War. (Davidson et al., 2005)

No One remembers, but USSR absolutely felt it was their destiny to spread to every corner of the world.

Communism. the goal wasn’t to win the war and just to support it; and American

The Cold War was rising when a revolution in Russia occurred. One of the socialist majority parties, the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czar, and it led to a communist government. The creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) feared America that the Soviet Union challenged the democratic values of the United States. President Woodrow Wilson saw that the Bolsheviks leader Vladimir wanted to spread communism around the world. Wilson sent troops in 1919 to try to defeat the revolutions.

The origins of the Cold War started because of how World War II ended. The Yalta Conference in 1945 is when the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt discussed the organization of Europe. The first tension was caused in the Middle East. Soviet troops occupied parts of northern Iran during this time, and they hoped to pressure Iran, so Iran will grant them access to their oil fields. But the British and Americans pressured Stalin to remove their forces. Also during this same time, the Soviets installed pro-communist governments in Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. They spread communism by claiming it was no different than the US dominating Latin American and Britian maintaining it’s own empire. However, Stalin was violating the promise of free elections in Poland that was agreed at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Another huge conflict that arises after the war was the Iron Curtain. The Iron Curtain was the name of the boundary between the free West and the communist East in Europe. During this postwar reconstruction, Stalin tightened his control, in fear of war with the West. He jailed or murdered millions of Soviet

other countries to adopt communism. The United States was on a mission to stop communism from spreading. The most distressing part of this conflict is that both countries had nuclear weapons all over the world backing their words. (Vandenberg 518)

At the end of the Second World War only two out of the all the great