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Essay: Who is primarily responsible for the Cold War? By 1945, the end of World War II was soon arriving and the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union had grew stronger(Britannica). Because of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviets had created a “left-wing” government, in which politicians support social equality in contrast to social hierarchy. Americans and British had feared Soviet’s dominating all eastern European. In contrast, the Soviets

The Cold War between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States (US) was caused by conflict of ideologies between the two world powers, opposed to the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948 in isolation. Evidence of this conflict can be seen in events such as World War two (WWII), and the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. Nuclear warfare, or the “Arms Race”, was also crucial in understanding the constant “one-upmanship” rivalry between the states. The term "cold war" first appeared

economic, and military tension between the Soviet Union and the United States. Beginning from the end of World WAR II in 1945 to the ending of the Soviet Union in 1991, East-West relations were distinguished between the liberal-democratic-capitalist “West” being the United States along with the allies it paired within western Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. The socialist-communist-authoritarian “East”, also referred to as the Soviet Union and allies Eastern Europe, the Caribbean, Asia, and

The Berlin Blockade What were the main factors that ultimately led to the failure of the Berlin Blockade? Word Count: 1957 TABLE OF CONTENTS A. Plan of the investigation ……………………………………………………………………….. 3 B. Summary of Evidence …………………………………………………………………………. 4 C. Evaluation of Sources .…...…………………………………………………………………….. 6 D. Analysis ………………………………………………………………………………………... 8 E. Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………………… 10 F. List of Sources …………………………………………………………………………………

As one of the crucial points of the Cold War, the Berlin Blockade of the Soviets and the Berlin Airlift of the Allies displayed failure in Soviet aggression in contrast with the success achieved by the peace seeking Western Allies. The Berlin Blockade of the East Germans effectively blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the Berlin sectors under Western control. As a direct siege on half of Berlin, the Allies came to this problem with an ingenious solution –an airlift. A

after WW II. The two world superpowers, the Soviet Union and the U.S., wanted to spread their own form of government. The Soviet Union wanted to spread communism to the “satellite nations” under its control, while the U.S. wanted to spread democracy to the newly created zones in Europe. NATO was created by North American countries to deter the Soviet Union from attempting to invade Western Europe. In retaliation to the creation of NATO, the Soviet Union created the Warsaw Pact with its Eastern satellite

In response to Cuba’s new level of cooperation with the Soviet Union, the United States instigated several conflicts in an effort to remove the Soviet-sympathetic Cuban government from power. President Kennedy, who recognized how Castro's government couldn't be influenced through political means, decided to resolve the entire problem by completely overthrowing and replacing Castro and his Soviet-sympathetic government. Initially, from 1961 to 1963, Kennedy planned to overthrow the communist government

The Cuban Missile Crisis was the only devastating event in U.S. to ever bring the country into DEFCON-2. Ever since World War 2, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have been rivals(Jeffery, Riley, 4). The Soviets later aligned themselves with the small country of Cuba. It is a small piece of land in enemy territory, but it is very important to them because they have to protect their allies at all times. For this reason, The USSR placed missiles in Cuba to keep them prepared for an invasion. In 1962, The

As the Soviet Union tried to push us into giving them Berlin, Germany with the Berlin Blockade we have found another way. The Berlin Airlift is the French, British and Americans solution to the struggle for ways to get our people the resources they are in dire need of. Over the course of a year and a half there was over 2.3 million tons of cargo flown into the western part of the city. At the beginning of “Operation Vittles” the planes delivered 5,000 tons of cargo into the city. As that was not

before the conference took place there was tension building up between the Allies and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was an ally with Germany for 2 years when they signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact; “this led the west to believe Stalin was cynical, opportunistic, power hungry, expansionist” (lecture, 1/8/16). It also took the allies a while to open up a western front, and this angered Stalin as the Soviet unions causalities kept on mounting. The conference was attended by the big three, British Prime Minister