...Who started the cold war and why? The Cold War was started by the principal victors of World War II: the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and to a lesser extent Britain. The Cold War was essentially an ideological struggle which but soon adopted all facets of full international conflict with its geopolitical, economic and also scientific-technological aspects. The earliest stages of the Cold War coincided with the final defeats of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in the first half of 1945. Both Communists and Capitalists were anxious to fill the power vacuums that the defeated Axis powers were leaving behind in Central Europe and the Pacific. From the setting of the scene at Yalta in February 1945, to the embittered conclusion of the Warsaw Pact on 14th May 1955, the worst obstacle to achieving a peace settlement was a mutual and deep-seated sense of suspicion, which the powers on either side of the 'Iron Curtain' must be held responsible for. "Twenty years ago I strove with all the energy in my power against Communism, because at that time I considered Communism, with its idea of world revolution, the greatest danger to the British Empire ... Nowadays German Nazism, with its idea of the world hegemony of Berlin, constitutes the greatest danger for the British Empire ... If the danger for the British Empire from the side of Fascism were to disappear and the danger from the side of Communism were to rise again, I - I say this absolutely...
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...Arielle Armstrong Professor Kennedy History 1302 Who or What is Responsible for the Cold War When it comes to the issue of the Cold War there are many different theories on how it got started. For example, many people blame the communist Soviet Russia, the evil leader Stalin, President Truman, mistrust, misunderstanding, and misconceptions. Some say all these theories are true and some say all these theories are false. However, I believe it was not just one specific even that started the Cold War, but a series of unfortunate events. In my opinion, the Cold War was the fault of Communist Soviet Russia and its evil leader, Stalin, who wanted to make the whole world Communist. The West was scared of this and was forced to resist in attempt to preserve their social and political culture. USSR had a role to play in starting the Cold War because they were not trust-worthy. Due to the sneaky behavior of USSR suspicion was created and hence the cold war started. There was a quote related to the USSR that is very true regarding this issue. "When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile, or preparing to eat you up." Regarding the USSR, the United States could not tell if the USSR was smiling at them, allies, or if they were going to eat them up, go to war. The Cold War was also based on Joe Stalin's paranoia and xenophobia. He killed millions of his own countrymen during the most terrible war in History for imagined disloyalty. He had the Army ring...
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...The Cold War lasted from 1947 to 1991, that is approximately 45 years. People have heard all about what happened during the Cold War and what it was. It was a fight between the USA and the USSR. I am here not to talk about that stuff though but who started it. I will go over facts supporting that the Soviet Union started the Cold War. The Cold War was started because of the military expansionism of Stalin. America's response was a defensive reaction. As long as the Soviet clung to their dream of imposing rold Communism, the USA had no way of ending the conflict. Stalin’s desire to dominate the world under Communism and his takeover of East Europe was seen to be his first steps towards world communism. This could not be ignored and so President...
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...head: COLD 1 The Cold War Corwin Schneider HIS 104 Professor Patrick Williams June 19, 2012 COLD 2 The Cold War Keep your Finger Off the Button! The Cold War, how did these two countries get to this point in history? While the United States and USSR should have been more grown up and learned to work out their problems, who were the major players in the Cold War and how were the two sides involved in the space race, when did the Cold War start and end, and what were the two sides arguing over. The United States was in an intense war with the USSR for five decades. It started in 1945, shortly after Communist Leader Joseph Stalin learned of the first atomic bomb the U.S. dropped on Japan August 6, 1945. “The Cold War was a strategic struggle that developed after World War II between the United States with its allies and the Soviet Union with its allies” (Bentley, J., Ziegler, H., & Streets, H. 2008 pg. 638). But, this was not an ordinary war between the two, it was a Cold War. It had more attacks of words and propaganda competing which was the better country. One reason these two superpowers never had direct military action against each other was they both possessed Nuclear Weapons. The major powers in the Cold War between...
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...situation?’ Although there is no specific event that all historians agree upon the cause of the Cold War, a Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada and exposing the Soviet spy ring in North America is largely credited as the man who start the Cold War. To determine whether a cipher clerk can single-handedly start the largest confrontation between...
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...By the end of the Second World War, a significant conflict arose between Allied powers. The United States and the Soviet Union were the two major nations who had their differences within their goals, values, and beliefs. It was a political and economic struggle for the U.S. and the USSR. Their tense relationship was because they wanted to spread their ideology across the world. The dispute among the powers lasted from 1945 up to 1991. This crucial disagreement between the Americans and the Soviets is known as the Cold War. The United States is responsible for the start of the infamous Cold War because they started the arms race and tried preventing communism by spreading democracy. Nuclear threats were made by the U.S. during the arms race....
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...The Vietnam War took place from November 1, 1955 until April 30, 1975. North Vietnam and South Vietnam were the two main countries that fought this war. The anti-communist countries defended South Vietnam and the communist allies defended North Vietnam. The United States, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Thailand, Khmer Republic, and Taiwan were the anti-communist. The Soviet Union, Khmer Rouge, and North Korea were the communist allies. Vietnam was part of the French Empire before World War Two. During the war, Vietnam was overrun by the Japanese. The Japanese later on retreated making Vietnam establish their own government. Their government was led by Ho Chi Minh. The Vietnam War started from the symptoms and components of the Cold War. The war revolved around an American belief that communism was threatening yo expand all over South-East Asia. The United States and the Soviet Union were in no shape to fight their own war so they ended up fighting in the Vietnam War. When it came to the Cold War, the USSR could not fight. Instead of fighting, they backed up the communist cause. They sent weapons and armor to China, who was an allied communist as well. China then took some of that equipment and sent it to the North Vietnamese so they could...
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...In any case, the author suggests that we look at who benefitted from the war, and he concludes that those on the anti-Communist who wanted the Cold War intensified were nothing but thrilled at the war. On the other hand, the North, the Chinese, and the Russians, says Stone, were strategically and tactically disadvantaged by such an outbreak of hostilities (43). Clearly, Stone is saying that the South and the Americans had the most obvious pro-war agenda and therefore should be the first suspects as to who started the war. Still, this part of the book is more dependent on speculation than the later sections on the sabotage of peace talks. Stone clearly believes that the military and political forces on the American side which wanted the Cold War to heat up were the ones with the strongest pro-war agenda, rather than those on the Communist side. It is up to the reader to analyze this speculation and decide for himself or herself. Stone's arguments that MacArthur wanted Chinese intervention---or at least a continuation of the war rather than an outbreak of peace---seem stronger than his speculations about who started the war in the first place. Stone examines communiques and other reliable sources to come to the conclusion that MacArthur---representing the United States' Cold War interests and passions---pushed the Chinese into a confrontation which almost guaranteed Chinese intervention: There were two dangers in the approach of MacArthur's troops to the Manchurian frontiers...
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...The Cold War and its policies had detrimental fallout effects on the American people. From the 1950s-1970s, people could see the shifting of cultures resulting from government policies and necessary adjustments to American life resulting from the Cold War. The Cold War would transform the future for America in many ways, including the religious boom, the staggering increase in defense spending, and the pushing of government control and propaganda due to ignorance and discrimination. The Cold war distorted America forever, instilling a fear of communism that would last to this day, making Americans want to try and rid the world of this evil. America, especially from the 1950s to the 1970s, main goal was to rid the world of communist control....
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...Black Market and war both affect almost everyone around the world, but how do they alter each other? From cigarettes to chocolate bars and from Hitler to Gandhi the Black Market rose during World War Two, but it was the result that helped shape the Black Market in Germany. The USSR and the United States of America fought against each other, but they also had to fight against the Black Market around Europe, and that is a war that has yet to end. The United States of America and Afghanistan have been at war and threatening one another for a long time, but in Afghanistan, American soldiers find a way to settle their differences with the Afghans with the one thing all people want, money. A well-known fact is that the...
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...The Battlefield with no Blood The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40's after WWII had left Europe in shambles and Russia and the USA in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash of these super giants in political, ideological, military, and economic values and ideas. Though military buildup was great on both sides neither one ever directly fought each other. In this essay I'm going to bring forth the following points: Rise of the Cold War, events in and because of the Cold War, and the fall of Russia. Again Germany had been thwarted in its plans of total domination. It had been a combined effort by all the Western powers and a few Eastern powers too. England was devastated, France had been literally burnt to the ground, and many small nations had suffered economic failure. To the East Russia had suffered many losses from the vain siege of the Nazi's. But they were in better shape than Europe. They still had a military and a running, somewhat, economy. In the late 40's through early 50's the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving in the Westward position. In 47 the US started funding the rebuilding of European infrastructure in a system called the Marshall Plan. Russia in turn brought forth its own funding called the Molotov Plan. Because of that, they were able to spread communism through many countries. Some of these nations were: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria...
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...Following the political and economic development, WWII and the Cold War made it not able to function throughout the Western Hemisphere. Latin Americas’ major nation started to become part of a wide and bigger complex of the global system. Of Course, Latin American had its’ concerns that were subordinated and superpower for their rivalries. Between the 1960s and 1970s, the U.S. was supporting military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. These countries feared...
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...TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY DURING THE COLD WAR Turkey followed a “belligerence” policy from the start of II. World War in 1939 until the start of war in 1945. The purpose of that time managers of Turkey, protect it from the damage of the war. The end of the war with the options in front of us, pushing us to act together with the Western bloc. The formation of these preferences is not a decision for an instant multi-dimensional factors, factors were created by a process. Turkey’s prefer of Western side, did not lead to acceptance by the West sincerely. European members of NATO did not want to risk of war again because of Turkey who was under the Soviet threat at that time. At the same time, they were not willing to impart that the U.S. Marshall Aid to Turkey. Britain lost its efficiency in the Middle East as in all the world and for that reason Britain was put forward a project that "Commander of the Middle East" which Turkey will play a key role for gain efficiency again. Due to U.S. opposition to this prediction, this project got shelved.In the "Containment Policy" process which started with Truman Doctrine by U.S. against the Soviet Bloc, military and geo-strategic location of Turkey opened the door to NATO membership.With North Korea's attack on South Korea, the Korean War started in 1950-53 and the Turkey participating in United States’s side, this was resulting against all suspicies and prejudice, Turkey took place between NATO member countries.Russians wishes to change of...
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...The Military Impact of the Cold War on the United Sates Kin Ruan 4/8/12 D.Cooper Green Class Every big event usually has very huge impact affecting the world we are in nowadays. These events happened decide how the world is going to be, such as the Cold War that made changes in the U.S. military. The Cold War happened between the U.S. and USSR from 1945 to 1991. During the Cold War, the two superpowers were competing with each other. They had varieties of competitions in different ways such as nuclear arms race. One of the biggest reasons for their competitions is that the U.S. and the USSR have two different political systems. As the final result we occur today, the Cold War forced the U.S. to cease their nuclear weapons and instead focus on conventional weapons. Both the United States and the Soviet Union emerged right after the World War II as the two strongest powers in the world, advanced in various aspects such as technology, military, and economy. However, their development was based on two different political systems that to some extent go against each other. These two national systems were very different. The system in the U.S. called capitalism. Capitalism has been known by profit income, private wealth, competitive markets, and inequality classes. The system emphasizes on personal ownership and individual development. The system in the USSR called communism. It...
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...The Cold War, by John Lewis Gaddis, is an extremely researched, and stunningly written historical account of the Cold War. Gaddis is the Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University. Gaddis is best known for his work on the Cold War. John Lewis Gaddis was born in 1941 in Cotulla, Texas. Gaddis received his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, and has since taught and at multiple universities and has received numerous awards and distinctions. Gaddis won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his biography of George F. Kennan. John Gaddis was born during World War II and grew up experiencing the Cold War first hand in America. Gaddis’ perspective is that of an American historian that has drawn from other Cold War historians as well....
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