Causes Of The Cold War

Throughout the last century, the U.S. has been in the limelight on nuclear confrontations, proliferations, and sanctions across the globe, exhausting all powers of social, military, and economic influence to further develop democratic policies. In 1945, one large-scale war was concluded and another one had just begun. Even though there was not a direct military campaign between two key adversaries, the Cold War continued roughly for about 45 long years. It was named Cold because no actual fighting took place, but both the U.S. and USSR were bulking up their militaries, as if they had both been infiltrated or attacked. The Russians raced to conquer as much land as they could. They wanted to acquire all military knowledge and advancements, such
These aircrafts were equipped to attack soft targets and defend all communist airspace and ideology. The U.S. military spending doubled its efforts compared to WWII. The deep-rooted developments of the Cold War were certain. Western democratic ideologies had always been competitively hostile to the concept of a communist federation. Following the Bolshevik Revolution, the U.S. hesitated to acknowledge the USSR for an entire 16 years. During the same time in the early 1950’s, the American public’s home-grown fear of communism broke out in a Red Scare like that of the first in the early 1920’s. WWII contributed short-term causes to the Cold War. The aggression from the Soviet’s position arose when twenty million Russian citizens died throughout WWII. The United States dismissed the Lend-Lease relief efforts to the USSR before WWII was concluded. Joseph Stalin formed promises throughout WWII regarding freedom of eastern Europe that later he blatantly broke. Appearing in the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union promised to embark on the war against Japan no later than three months after the conclusion of the WWII conflict in Europe. In exchange, the U.S. distributed
The President outlined his notions to enclose communism within its boundaries, when requesting aid for Greece and Turkey. The Secretary of State under Truman was George Marshall, who created the European Recovery Program (ERP), designed to balance Europe’s economy. Secretary Marshall stated that the ERP’s intent was strictly humanitarian and extended finances to communist states in Eastern European countries as well. The Marshall Plan was a miraculous economical strategy to help countries in western Europe. In a few brief years, western European industries production doubled to what they had been prior to WWII. The economic relief also elevated levels of business trade with American companies that incited a post warfare industry surge in the U.S. President Eisenhower devised propaganda operations in eastern Europe to turn back the impact of the communist psychological influence. Eisenhower’s Secretary of State, John Dulles, was tough on Soviet aggression. He had a less apprehensive approach than Truman’s. However, President Eisenhower refused to interfere in the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, mostly for concern it would motivate the outbreak of another world war. He was aware of another key element, that the Soviets had nuclear capabilities since 1950. Eisenhower had confidence in covert CIA activities and other agencies to cripple antagonistic governments. He relied on