War's Role In The Cold War

The Cold War was a time of immense fear in the United States and the Soviet Union. Secrets, spies, and distrust had created a tense brinkmanship that would last for decades. Although fighting never took place the back and fourth threats were enough to keep both countries on edge. The war in its entirety was rooted on differing ideologies, but the dissimilarities between our two countries, which played a keep role in the wars creation, originated long before the events of the Cold War began to unfold.
In February of 1917 the people of Russia had grown tired of its tsardom, and as a result the citizens rose against the Tsarist autocracy in a revolution allowing members of imperial parliament to form the Russian Provisional Government. While
it acted as a governing body the lack of a stable government would soon lead to a dual power between the Russian Provisional Government, and the socialistic Soviets. Eventually a group of these socialists, known as the Bolsheviks, gained power and overthrew the provisional government. Further leading to a final civil war in which the Bolsheviks defeated all anti and opposing socialists, paving the way for the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and ultimately the rise of communism. The United States was worried that the same thing might happen in their countries. So they helped support the White Army, who fought against communism in the Russian Civil War. Things changed temporarily though because Hitler came to power and Stalin along with the Soviet Union became the lesser of two evils. Although the two were able to put their differences aside to untie against the Germans, after the war tensions began to intensify. While the United States has always been a strong advocate of freedom and democracy, the Communist belief that everything should be owned by the government and then divided up equally amongst each other posed a threat to our government & economy. So when the Soviet Union began to push for the spread of communism, the US began its containment policy. In an effort to keep communism from spreading the US had to contain communism internationally. They did this through military and financial support to European nations. While at home, the “red scare” had Americans worried of a communist revolution. To ensure that sort of thing wouldn’t happen the government began taking precautions. The US had bomb drills; created loyalty oaths, and the House of Un-American Actives Council began conducting trials of supposed communists to insure domestic security.
Though the climate of fear and repression began to ease in the late 1950s, fear of a communist take over fluctuated until the early 90’s when Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented a great number of radical reforms and 14 Soviet republics announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union, and would instead establish a Commonwealth of Independent States. The Soviet Union had fallen. For the first time since the 20’s communism and its principals had been defeated, and a war that once emerged from differing ideologies was finally over.