The Allies During The Cold War

During WWII (1939-1945) the Soviet Union (USSR) was allied with France, Britain, and the USA. These were known as the Allies. The Allies fought against Germany and the other Axis powers. After the war, the victory belonged to the Allies. The USA and USSR become the two new superpowers as they had the most robust economies, militaries, international political power. However, the alliance between the two begins to crumbling down in 1945 as they had a big difference between their ideologies, decision, and attitude towards the ideas of how Europe should be reconstructed. The relationship between USA and USSR was hugely intense since before the World war II had occurred. USSR had become communist in 1917 and spread their influence throughout the
They had allied to fight against the Nazi German in World war II because they need to stay allied until the end of the war and overlook their differences in ideologies as they wanted to defeat Nazi Germany. Naturally, as soon as the war about to end, either of them shown the bitterness between each other which lead to the increasing of disagreement that appeared on the alliances. Therefore, the alliances were no longer bearable until it finally breaks down and all the allies especially USA and USSR became enemies. As a result, the breakdown of wartime alliances caused the expansion of Soviet power in Europe, the ‘loss’ of China to communism, the Korean War, and the Vietnam war called the period of tension or cold war (1947-1991). Ideologies were the significant causes that Historian could not be
One-party dictatorship means a single political party rules the Russian that all candidates belonged to the communist party and the forming of other political parties is forbidden. The Russians valued on the good of society than an individual right, according to Peter Moss, a writer: “no private person should be allowed to make a profit from the work of other citizens. If the labours of the ordinary people are to make a profit, then it should, they say, belong to the government, who will use it for the good of everyone in the country by building and running hospitals and schools, by paying for defence; communications and all the other needs of a country.” So, all the money and profit that should belong to the business owner was going into the state’s pocket. However, USA believe in the different ideologies where the country should follow the idea of capitalism and