The Cold War Era & Threats to the American Family Karen D. Stephens Kaplan University SS310: Exploring the 1960s: An interdisciplinary Approach Professor Patricia Robinson The term “Cold War” was coined by a financial advisor to Truman, Bernard Baruch, who first used this term in a speech he gave in April 1947. A timeline of the Cold War, I think, would have to encompass the years 1945-1991. Everything from the dropping of the ‘A’-Bomb on Hiroshima, Japan (1945), to the Soviets initialized their takeover of Eastern Europe and establishing the Eastern Bloc (1946), the lifting of the Berlin Blockade (May 1949), the Korean War (1950-1953), establishment of the Warsaw Pact (1955), the United States’ involvement in
Evaluate the role of the policies of the United States in the origins of the Cold War between 1945 and 1949. The origins of the Cold War find its roots in the behavior of the main antagonists, America and the Soviet Union, at the end of World War Two. Both had differing agendas and most importantly different ideologies, this resulted in almost 45 years of diplomatic war. The foreign policies of the USA in the 1940s contributed to the distrust and hostility between the two superpowers, however America alone cannot be blamed for the cold war. In 1946 George Kennan, an American diplomat stationed in Moscow, sent a telegram to the US State Department to report on the Soviet government and the nature of its foreign policy.
Brad Trublowski 2/19/13 IAH 221C 002 The Inevitable Cold War At the end of World War II, two super powers emerged: Unites States and Russia. These two countries are the main reason World War II was brought to an end. After the war, there were many disputes on solving the problems in a weak and much damaged Europe. The two superpowers were only allies during the war and they will find out after the war, they will have many conflicts. Russia and the United States had very different political policies which led to the Cold War being inevitable.
The paper will focus on the cause and effect of the Cold War that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union that began at the end World War II. The United States and the Soviet Union were allies during World War II, and they were fighting for their survival against Germany, Italy, and Japan. Many other countries were involved as the allies had made agreements at the Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam Conferences, which at the end of the World War led them into the Cold War. To understand what happened at these conferences and what agreements were made we need to look closer at these areas. The Teheran Conference (in Iran) took place in 1943 and the agreement made by the United States and the Great Britain was that the Soviet Union would be granted more territory, such as eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and Bukovina.
In what ways did spies during the cold war try to gain information? What did they do with this information and was it beneficial to our country? Tension after World War 2 between the Western world and the Communist world. The largest tension was between the US and the Soviet Union. After the debatable “success” of the atomic bomb there was talk of using it again Every country now wanted to know who had one, where it was kept, and when/if they would be using it Causes Differences between the US and the Soviet Union were intensified by suspicions after the war.
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The Second World War ended in 1945 with the victory of ‘the Grand Alliance’ of the USSR, the USA and Britain. Although on the surface it appeared the West and the Soviets had reached a mutual understanding in their quest to defeat the Axis powers, strains in their relationship during the war and in the years preceding it suggests that conflict was imminent. Thus, certain actions by both the USA and the USSR can be interpreted as prompting the Cold War as early as 1945. As the Cold War did not involve direct conflict between the USA and USSR, locating its origin is a topic of contention. However, the breakdown in relations between the emerging superpowers during the war and the consequences of the disbandment of the Grand Alliance can be interpreted as the start of the Cold War.
Although Truman’s actions and the new ‘policies’ that he introduced were a major factor to the deterioration of America-Soviet relations, it is important to understand the pre-1945 factors that affected these relations. After World War I, European countries adopted an appeasement ideology: The world was horrified by what the war had done to Europe, and a war like that must never happen again, so peace must be protected at all costs. This led to many attempts to preserve peace in Europe, which ultimately failed as Germany invaded Poland and the world realized that another war was about to begin. However, one of the last agreements that the western countries signed with the Nazis might have been the start of the bad Soviet relations with these countries: the Munich agreement. This agreement said that Hitler was free to invade a portion of Czechoslovakia, as long as he went no further.