The Different Perspectives Of The Cold War

In this paper I will discuss what actions and thoughts added up to cause the cold war. The cold war lasted from September 1, 1945 to about December 25, 1991. That is about forty-five years, which is an extremely long time. The cold war was a global competition basically between two sides, the Free World, which was led by the United States of America, and the Communist World led by the Soviet Union. The struggle took place through indirect military conflict, and direct competition in the areas of economics, diplomacy, culture, space exploration, and political theory. It also involved nuclear stand offs, espionage, and global competition for other nations. The cold war has established the framework for most

In 1947, the Cold War had started, named after how both of the disputing sides did not fight but only threatened each other with new technologies. The U.S and Soviet Union disagreements on political systems and also questioned war reparation, show how they cause the Cold War with their mistrust and technological issues.

Consisting of 44 years of violence and civil unrest from 1947 to 1991, the Cold War was a huge turning-point in history. The Cold War however was a war of avoidance, not combat. Defence systems were heavily funded as deterrence to actual war, the belief being a risk of mutual annihilation would be too great to be the side to make the first move. However, the Cold War caused a large variety of conflict and civil unrest around the world, such as the Korean War, Vietnam War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The War split the world into supporting either the United States, or the USSR (Soviet Union). Both superpowers were associated with two very different political systems; Capitalism and Communism. The Soviets were very concerned about the spread

The Cold War was brought on by the differences in economic treatment and political ideology between the US and USSR that could no longer be ignored once the common goal of fighting together as WWII drew to a close and ended. The two powerful countries saw the other country’s actions, or lack of actions, as a power grab and a threat to their own national security. Threats of nuclear attack caused many issues between the US and USSR. The two countries acted to prevent the expansion of each other’s political ideology into other countries.

The Cold War was the rivalry between the two superpowers of the world, The United States and the Soviet Union, this war lasted about 45 years and fought each other indirectly for power and control of the world. This battle began towards the end of the World War II in 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union started noticing their differences and this caused conflict between them.This war was unlike other wars, there was no fighter planes flying over countries dropping bombs, no ground troops,and no deployment of missiles, however there was nuclear weapons being used,plenty of money being spent,propaganda and two powerful enemies against each other like other wars. Who was to blame for this war? The Soviets or the United States? Both made

The struggle between two ideologies, communism and capitalism, fought an nonviolent, passive-aggressive war. The war consisted of an arms race, the space race, and ultimately having both ways of life compete to control the world. This conflict mostly involved the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It is one of the world’s greatest ironies that the communist state of Russia that was so power-thirsty and desired nothing more than to sink its communist roots into the rest of the world, started this Cold War, and ultimately fell because of it. The USSR was the country who ignited the Cold War with their military expansionism, the totalitarian tendencies of communism as an ideology, and the way that they wrought destruction on European countries, such as Greece. The USSR dude you left off right here, you’re welcome...

One of the most controversial topics among historians is the origins of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR). The war began in 1947 right after the end of World War II and lasted until 1991. This war was more of a time period of competition among powers, than an actual war, which lasted 44 years. They faced problems of ideologies of free-market capitalistic America versing communistic Russia, geopolitics, and an economic struggle between two former World War II allies. Historians have long argued and taken many different sides on who started the Cold War. These views have been categorized into: realism/traditionalism, revisionism, and post-revisionism. Nevertheless the rivalry between the two superpowers was tense. To understand the underlying problems between the USSR and the United States, it is crucial to go back into history and reflect on pre World War II.

During the World War II, the Soviet Union and Western Blocs were allies fighting against their enemies. As time went on, at the end of the World War II, they started to have disagreements and had many differences. The conflict between these two became huge and was known as the Cold War. The Soviet was the most responsible for the Cold War because they tried to expand the Sphere of Influence, won’t compromise with the Westerns, and they had new weapons that they kept as a secret.

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

To understand why the Cold War occurred and why it was inevitable it is necessary to understand the differing ideologies the two countries of the United States and Soviet Union held. The United States was a democracy with a freely elected government that was voted by the people for the people. The Soviet Union was a communist nation whose government attempted to control all aspects of living to better their society as a whole. These two

At the end of WWII, two world superpowers emerged, the United States and the Soviet Union. As time went on, tensions and hostilities began to grow between the two countries. The Cold War was not a war in the traditional sense of battles, but it was a war of policies, ideals, and political influence. The United States’ ideology of capitalism heavily clashed with the Soviet Union’s ideology of communism. There are many debates about how the hostility between the two countries became so tense. Historian Anne Applebaum argues against the revisionist theory that the U.S.S.R.’s actions were a result of the U.S.’ hostile actions following WWII, thus beginning the Cold War. Another historian by the name of William Appleman Williams holds a viewpoint that challenged Applebaum’s as he believes that the U.S.’

The term “Cold War” refers to the second half of the 20th century, usually from the end of the World War II until 1990, when the Soviet Union collapsed. Since the 1940s and 1950s the scholars have disagreed on the topic of the origins of the Cold War. There are several groups of historians and their interpretations are very different, sometimes even contradictory. The three main schools are the orthodox, the revisionist and the realist. The classification is not completely accurate because we can find several differences in theories of scholars within the same group and often the authors reevaluated their ideas over time.

There have been many attempts to explain the origins of the Cold War that developed between the capitalist West and the communist East after the Second World War. Indeed, there is great disagreement in explaining the source for the Cold War; some explanations draw on events pre-1945; some draw only on issues of ideology; others look to economics; security concerns dominate some arguments; personalities are seen as the root cause for some historians. So wide is the range of the historiography of the origins of the Cold War that is has been said "the Cold War has also spawned a war among historians, a controversy over how the Cold War got started, whether or not it was inevitable, and

The orthodox view regarding the cause of the Cold War, formed the standard interpretation between the 1940s and early-1960s. The breakdown of the wartime alliance and the expansion of Soviet