How Did The Cold War A Clash Of Ideology
Was the cold war a clash of ideologies or a clash of superpowers?
With the Nazis attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States and the Soviet Union transformed from enemies into allies. The Grand alliance consisted of a shared mistrust of each other’s motives. Stalin always had his suspicions of the Western aims. The different views they had began to aggravate their post war settlement, to the West the adamant stand the Soviets had on the future of Eastern Europe was threatening. And so the surrender of Germany bought their alliance to an end, the dispute between the Soviet Union and United States particularly of ideologies was now greater than ever.
The cold war was a unique confrontation as it was a struggle defined by the ideas and values in the countries involved. Ideology was a fundamental interest throughout the cold war; it was these ideological differences that caused the breakdown between the two superpowers. The two different economic and political systems both determined they should shape the future of Europe and the rest of the world. There was competition between the two powers and it increased greatly during the end of the nineteenth century with confrontations between them as …show more content…
Truman and his advisors feared the revival of a German threat and a powerful Germany merging with the Soviet Union against them and the Soviet Union held the same fears about the rebuilding of German power and the alliance with the West. The role of Germany in the cold war and the issues that were faced were largely due to the clash between the superpowers and the fear there could be an independent threat or nation that could uproot them from their position. Nonetheless, although these issues surrounding Germany are due to conflict between the superpowers, many of the problems stemmed from ideological
With the Nazis attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States and the Soviet Union transformed from enemies into allies. The Grand alliance consisted of a shared mistrust of each other’s motives. Stalin always had his suspicions of the Western aims. The different views they had began to aggravate their post war settlement, to the West the adamant stand the Soviets had on the future of Eastern Europe was threatening. And so the surrender of Germany bought their alliance to an end, the dispute between the Soviet Union and United States particularly of ideologies was now greater than ever.
The cold war was a unique confrontation as it was a struggle defined by the ideas and values in the countries involved. Ideology was a fundamental interest throughout the cold war; it was these ideological differences that caused the breakdown between the two superpowers. The two different economic and political systems both determined they should shape the future of Europe and the rest of the world. There was competition between the two powers and it increased greatly during the end of the nineteenth century with confrontations between them as …show more content…
Truman and his advisors feared the revival of a German threat and a powerful Germany merging with the Soviet Union against them and the Soviet Union held the same fears about the rebuilding of German power and the alliance with the West. The role of Germany in the cold war and the issues that were faced were largely due to the clash between the superpowers and the fear there could be an independent threat or nation that could uproot them from their position. Nonetheless, although these issues surrounding Germany are due to conflict between the superpowers, many of the problems stemmed from ideological