The Causes Of The Cold War Between America And The USSR

The Cold War, which took place from 1947 to 1991 had eventually altered the Latin America's relationship with the United States profoundly, as the region became a battleground between two different competing ideological systems which was capitalism and communism. Prior to the Cold War, both economic and geopolitical concerns had motivated United States policy toward Latin America. But, after the lowering of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe, George Kennan, the chief architect of American foreign policy towards the Soviet Union, advocated containment to stop the spreading of communism, not just in Europe, but including the countries all around the world. The result was a bipolar world featuring proxy wars fought throughout the Third World by alternates and clients of the two superpowers. Latin American nations are historically considered to be part of "our backyard," who were not permitted to remain neutral as Washington expected the Latin American countries to ally with the United States, while the Soviet Union sought to gain access to what had been an American sphere of influence and after world war II many Latin American countries such as Cuba faced political, economic and social challenges.

War. Humans have thrived from war for as long as we can remember. The United States has been fighting wars ever since we found the new country in North America that we now call the United States. We fought against our selves for the freedom of others. We fought in several world wars. We have always fought. But in the late 1940's “war” changed forever. This was well known as the Cold War. Why was this so different? “ The world had never experienced anything like it. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was a half century of military build-up, political maneuvering for international support (Hanes, Sharon M., and Richard C. Hanes).” This means that the world has always seen war as either hand to hand combat or gun to

During World War II, the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) were allies, fighting side by side. With the defeat of Hitler in Germany in 1945, the two superpowers rose: the Soviet Union and the United States. It led to a long struggle for supremacy, known as the Cold War that last about 44 years.

Following World War II there was a lot of tension between two of the Allied countries. The United States and the Soviet Union were in a state of political and military tension with each other. Opposing ideologies on how to deal with the world’s affairs post World War II fueled this rivalry but there was always a tension between the two countries. World War II, with its common goal, brought these two countries together as allies. With Hitler and the Nazis threating their way of living these two countries, along with others such as Britain, worked together to defeat this threat. Along with this common enemy, the two countries during the World War II period were able to put their differences behind them and work together to try and defeat Hitler. With there success, soon after there common goals quickly diminished and without such a bitter rivalry started. It can be said that the Cold War wasn’t only inevitable following World War II, but that World War II also delayed the rivalry that would follow between the United States and Soviet Union.

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Fuelled by aversion and escalation of competition, the Cold War marks history’s height of political and military tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Despite fighting alongside in the Second World War, tensions heighted and conflicting ideologies ripped these two nations apart. The rivalry, that consumed a large portion of the twentieth century, nearly brought the world to the brink of disaster. The strenuous relationship was characterized by the overwhelming sense of mutual doubt, animosity, and lack of communication. As two nations eminently divided by ideological differences, the mutual misperception between the US and the USSR is undeniably imperative to the development of the early Cold War in regards to Soviet

The conflict in ideologies between capitalism and communism resulted in one of the greatest conflicts of the twentieth century. The belief that freedom and democracy would die under communist rule caused the United States to start a conflict that would last for decades. The decisions made by the United States in W.W.II caused tensions to rise between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. Fear of Communism in capitalist nations, caused the United states government to use propaganda to raise Cold War anxieties. Furthermore, the American media influenced the attitudes of Americans, making a hatred of communism spread though the nation. Thus, the United States caused the conflict known as the Cold War, through its political policy and propaganda. The political relations going on in Europe during and directly after World War II had an enormous effect on laying the foundation for the Cold War. War time conferences such as Yalta and Terhran harshened the relationship between the communists and the capitalists. At the end of W.W.II American policy towards the Soviets changed drastically. The change in president in 1945 caused relations with Russia to worsen. Furthermore, other political contributions to the Cold War entailed the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. The division of Europe between the west and east drew physical borders which outlined that the war of misinformation that had began. Also treaties of the post war world further separated the two super powers

In the wake of World War II as the decades-long force of Germany’s reign came to its conclusion, an extensive repositioning of authority among the world’s top powers began. The war wielded devastating consequences for most countries involved and effectively diminished the dominance Britain and France once employed across the globe. Out of this devastation rose the two new dominating forces of the world who were triumphant in the aftermath of the war: the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States desired to spread democracy across the globe, while the Soviet Union remained ambitious in the hopes of ending capitalism and inciting communist revolutions. The Cold War began in 1947 as a result of the ideological tension steadily built between these two superpowers throughout both World Wars and their prolonged rivalry over the division of power in the postwar world.

During World War II, the United States and the USSR fought a common enemy: Hitler. Because of this, the two countries worked together in an alliance, working through disagreements in order to defeat Nazi Germany. However, near the end of the world, the USSR and the United States began to diverge sharply over both economic and political issues. The start of the Cold War was greatly influenced by the Yalta Conference. Many important topics were discussed at the conference, including how to divide post-war Germany and the USSR declaring war on Japan, but the most important issue discussed was what to do about Poland (The Yalta Conference). The disagreements over Poland would have a major impact on Soviet-American relations.The United States wanted to establish a noncommunist government, whereas the Soviets wanted

After World War II, the tensions formed between the Western Bloc, or the United States and NATO, and the Eastern Bloc, or the Soviet Union and allies, during the war became more pronounced. Many differences in the countries’ objectives led to a strain in their political and military relationship, leading to the Cold War a couple of years later. Historians have deemed this conflict the “Cold” War because it did not involve direct fighting between

In The Cold War: A New History, author John Lewis Gaddis, a professor at Yale University writes about one of the most significant time periods in U.S. history. The world was in shambles following World War II, the old great powers had fallen, but two countries emerged from the rubble. The United States and the Soviet Union stood alone, the new powerhouses began to prosper, as the economy’s of the separate nations floundered. The two nations had separate ideologies, the United States practiced a democracy, but the Soviet Union was a communist state. When the countries of the world were rebuilding and recovering from the war, these two new powerful nations tried to sweep in and influence as many countries as possible. The Soviet Union had their hearts set on spreading communism across the globe, but the United States had contrary beliefs. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc, which included Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. The Soviet Union controlled these satellite states, but were determined to control more including Vietnam, Korea and Cuba. The Soviet Union’s agenda led to the Korean War and Vietnam War along with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Tensions rose between the two countries, resulting in the Space Race, an arms race and espionage. Throughout the majority of forty-four years, the U.S. and the Soviet Union were on the brink of an economic collapse and a nuclear war.

Cold war was the phase of hostile rivalry between the USSR and Americans. This term is used to describe the relationship between America and Soviet Union after the World War 2 or in the period from 1945 to 1980. Cold War got its name as both sides were afraid of fighting each other, as both possessed nuclear weapons, by the 1950s, there was the fear of complete destruction of the two countries. So they fought indirectly by threatening and denouncing each other using words as weapons or by trying to make the other state look foolish or by using client states to fight for their beliefs. For example South Vietnam was anticommunist and fought for America against the Soviet Union, while North Vietnam was pro-communist and fought against the Americans for the Soviet Union. Cold War was the clash of different ideas and beliefs which caused the

And when the U.S dropped the nuclear bomb on Japan in 1945, the Soviets felt threatened and justified their own demise in the matter by reckoning that the U.S is trying set an example for others, indirectly stating that they are vigorously in possession of such power, completely destructing cities . Consequently, this drove the Soviets to become even more active and to have a stronger stance in foreign policy (Doc B). In addition to, the Soviets also believe that the U.S was trying to spread capitalism across Europe by establishing the Marshall Plan in which the U.S financially helped European countries to boost their economy and social status. This program was also applied to the Soviet Union but they didn’t accept it because they believed that it was a direct attempt for the U.S to dominate European affairs (Doc E), since those that accepted this plan were to become its allies in return for the aid provided.

From 1947-1991 what is known as the Cold War happened. The Cold War was between two world powers, the USA and the Union of Soviet Republics (USSR). However, the war before the Cold War, World War II (WWII), was what led to the Cold War. The USA was not involved in WWII however, until the Japanese decided to make an attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Since they were attacked, they could no longer ignore what was happening in the world and joined forces with the USSR to stop the war. The USA decided to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese making WWII “the deadliest war in history”(Boyer, PG. 828). This bomb also ended the war. Once the two forces were victorious they then began their own quarrel.

The Cold War In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. Within a few years, yet, wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle—military, political, economic, ideological—to prevail in a new "Cold War. Was it the Soviets, who reneged on their agreements to allow the people of Eastern Europe to determine their own fates by imposing totalitarian rule on territories unlucky enough to fall behind the "Iron Curtain?" Or was it the Americans, who ignored the Soviets' legitimate security concerns, sought to intimidate the world with the atomic bomb, and pushed to expand their own international influence and market dominance? The tensions that would later grow into Cold War became evident as early as 1943, when the "Big Three" allied leaders—American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin—met in Tehran to coordinate strategy. Poland, which sits in an unfortunate position on the map, squeezed between frequent enemies Russia and Germany, became a topic for heated debate. The Poles, then under German occupation, had not one but two governments-in-exile—one Communist, one anticommunist—hoping to take over the country upon its liberation from the Nazis. The Big Three disagreed over which Polish faction should b allowed to take control after the war, with