Inevitability Of The Cold War

Sean Seward

P.3

2/22/16

Zamora

The Inevitability of the Cold War

In the aftermath of the Second World War the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as leading superpowers, and while peoples of the world were ready for peace, the Americans increasingly saw its relation with the its former wartime ally become tenser. As a result, nothing dominated American foreign policy more in the post war years than the question of European reconstruction in order to counter any soviet ambitions.

Before the Korean War in 1949 the Cold War avoided entering any hot conflicts in which both the Soviet Union and United States indirectly clashed with violence. Historians and academics alike often argue that the diplomatic maneuvers taken in the
and Russia. As many know, the Truman Doctrine was made to stop the spread and growth of communism. A good reason this contributed to the cause of the war between the 2 countries is because they were both fighting over for their sphere of influence and to be the strongest world power. The Truman Doctrine gave money to any country that promised not to turn to communism. A major threat against communism and the Soviet Union this made them extremely unhappy and ready to
This caused conflict because both were fighting for influence of these weaker countries. As a result of this the United States launched the “Marshall Plan”, in which the U.S. offered aid to any European countries that were in need of assistance. This plan was made to support countries who were in need of assistance; we gave $400,000,000 worth of aid to both the Greek and Turkish governments alone. This angered the Soviet Union because they could see the real reason behind the Marshall Plan was to expand our sphere of influence and stop the spread of communism. This is how the Iron Curtain contributed to the inevitability of the Cold