Taking a Look at the Cold War

During the cold war, the United States engaged in many aggressive policies both at home and abroad, in which to fight communism and the spread of communist ideas. Faced with a new challenge and new global responsibilities the U.S. needed to retain what it had fought so strongly for in World War II. It needed to contain the communist ideas pouring from the Soviet Union while preventing communist influence at home, without triggering World War III. With the policies of containment, McCarthyism, and brinkmanship, the United States hoped to effectively stop the spread of communism and their newest threat, the Soviet Union.

The Cold War was a significant time for the United States and the Soviet Union, while the rest of the world watched intently. Although no actual war took place, both of these powerful countries did their best to promote their political and ideological ideas while trying to gain some ground in the seemingly never ending arms race. This war was driven by both fear and the strive to become the strongest and most powerful country. During the time of the Cold War, the United States proved to be a strong influence over Canada. Given its location, it was obvious as to which side Canada was on. While Canada believed in the same ideologies as the US, this nation was still reluctant to fully emerge themselves into the hysteria that had been emerging in the US. However, even though Canada had just received world recognition for its contribution during the Second World War, this large yet acutely populated country had much still to prove. During this time, Canada just recently became a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But while Canada was making huge steps in their peacekeeping and military growth, there were still rumours of espionage circling the country.

But Cold War origins had roots in American suspicions of Soviet communism and in Stalin?s aggressive posture toward Eastern Europe and the Persion Gulf, not the Far East. In hindsight, we see that the Soviets were not the schemers of the Korean War, as we can see from the fact that that they were absent from the Security Council vote to begin ?police action? in North Korea. Plus, now that the Soviets had detonated an atomic bomb, relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union needed to be, in Truman?s mind, as cautiously done as possible; a full assault on communism may have caused a third World War. The open-ended struggle against communism gave the president expanded powers to act when unrest threatened, and only at those times.

The Cold War was a state of economic, diplomatic, and ideological discord among nations without armed conflict. The Cold War was between the United States and the USSR because these were the two major powers after WWII. Basically, the Cold War was a series of proxy wars that had taken place back in time involving surrounding countries. One of the main causes for Cold War was that the Soviet Union was spreading communism and the United States didn’t like that so they were trying to contain communism. However, in the end they failed. Many events took place in other countries. In Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and China, communism took over; however, before it did, major wars had taken place. The cold war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union worsened the condition of countries involved. The Cold War broke countries into two parts that turned against each other, the United States and the Soviet Union used these countries to fight their war and caused a big disturbance to daily life, and the Communist States fought the Non-Communist States; however, the end results of these wars only caused more damage in these countries.

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How did conflicting ideas in the Cold War turn the United States into a super power and could the strategies that helped fight them help the US fight terrorism? The Cold War was lasted from 1947 to 1991, which is 45 years in combat agents the Soviet Union. Even though there was no direct combat between the two countries, they both lost millions of dollars and lives. Both sides had their own ideas of how governments should be run; the United States had the idea of a capitalist while Russia had the idea of a communist (“The Cold”). During this time, Russia was spreading its beliefs across Europe by taking over Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), Austria, and many others (“What”).

Many factors contributed to the start of the Cold War, one was America’s fear was the spread of communism. This influence the American idea to wipe out communism. This led to tension between the country,

Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor and United State’s involvement in World War II, we remained an isolationist country. Once World War II ended, the United States left isolationism behind and began a quest to abolish communism during the Cold War, involving many nations. Although the success of the containment policy in South America and Asia was not identical, each were beneficial in decreasing communism during the Cold War.

The tension between the Soviet Union and the United States escalated with the end of World War II in the summer of 1945. The Soviet Union and the United States, having been on the Allies fighting against the Axis, were both victorious world superpowers at the end of WWII. With conflicting government systems (on one side socialism and on the other democracy) however, these two nations would fight a cold war for the next few decades in hope of making their rule secure. This would shape America’s foreign and domestic policy for the next few decades and define the Cold War presidents. The Cold War presidents, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Henry Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, each altered domestic and foreign affairs including civil rights, containment policies, and welfare reforms. Harry S. Truman, the first president of the Cold War, succeed President Franklin Roosevelt and began forming various foreign policies in order to cope with the increasing bitter relations between the two nations. Every president after Truman until George H. W. Bush formed unique or built upon previous foreign policies during the Cold War. After analyzing all nine presidents’ achievements and failures, they have been ranked in order from most successful to least successful as Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Ford.

September 2nd, 1945. This was the day gunshots would stop firing, screaming and shouts would no longer be heard, and bodies would lay dead on the front line. World war two, the most devastating war in history, was over. Countries were in pieces, torn completely apart by each other, and nearly had nothing left of themselves. After the battle, the globe had divided into sections, such as the communist and capitalist bloc. This stated rivalry between two of the largest nations in the world: The Soviet Union, and the United States. The rivalry was known as the cold war. The cold war was a time of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was communist which is an economic system in which the government owns all property

In 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler 's Nazi empire in Europe. However, within just a few years, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle: military, political, economic, and ideological, to prevail in a new "Cold War." The Cold War was a time of extreme tension between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), or the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective ideologies. It was not declared in the same sense as most wars, rather it progressed over time. Therefore there are different opinions on the exact beginning of the War. Some say the Cold War really

​During the Cold War, three United States presidents, Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter, seeked détente, or peacefully reducing tensions and coexisting with the Soviet Union. But Ronald Reagan, United State's 40th president, had opposed and disliked this plan. Reagan proposed peace through strength. Détente had actually made the Soviets stronger, as they saw that as an American weakness. Reagan's plan was to make America stronger by increasing military production and building America's economy. Ronald Regan predicted that the Soviet Union would try to compete and match America's military powers and technological advancements. He believed that the Soviet Union wouldn't be succesful under their government-controlled economy.

The ‘Cold War’ is one of the most interesting ‘wars’ fought in world history. The sheer number of countries both directly and indirectly involved is enough to pose the question – To what extent was the Cold War a truly Global War? This essay will examine this idea. It will identify two main areas of argument, focusing on the earlier part of the conflict (1945-1963). Firstly it will examine the growing US and Soviet influence in the world post 1945. Secondly it will examine three main conflicts, the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis that these two super powers were involved in. Overall this essay will argue that the Cold War was no doubt a truly global war.

The historian’s belonging to this school see the Truman doctrine from 1947 as the point when the Cold War started. They put the responsibility for the Cold War on the Soviet Union and its expansionist policy. According to them, this is the reason, why Soviets broke promises from the negotiations during the World War II, especially the Yalta agreement. On the other hand, the U.S. politicians wanted to continue the cooperation between the Allies even after the defeat of the Axis. They put a lot of hope to the newly created organization – United Nations – and the principle of collective security. However, the U.S. needed to react to the Soviet aggression in Europe. They adopted the policy of containment. The orthodox scholars view this policy as necessity because without it “the Soviet Union would have become the master of all Europe, instead of only the eastern Europe” .

The technical, sociological and political concepts that arose during the Cold War made a notable difference to the landscape of the next 60 years. Under the atmosphere of impending doom, many novel concepts were conceived that dramatically altered the psyches of generations to come.