Who Was The Most Responsible For The Cold War
Most Responsible For the Cold War
The Cold War was a war that was fought after the end of WW2. It was between two countries that were considered “superpowers” because they were the two strongest countries left after WW2. The Soviet Union was the country that provoked the Cold War by invading the surrounding countries to its west. According to document one three reasons why the Cold War was fought was because of Spheres of influence, Ideology, and Military factor. During WW2 both the Soviet Union and the West had fought together against Germany. But after the war the West decided that the Soviet Union couldn’t be trusted anymore. Remembering the Hitler-Stalin treaty. The Hitler-Stalin treaty basically said that if Germany won the war then Poland would …show more content…
The U.S foreign policy was created to limit the Soviet influence on the rest of the world. One example of this was the Cuban missile crisis. The Cuban missile crisis was when the Soviet Union attempted to place nuclear warheads in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy agreed to place a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet threat. This lasted 13 days in which Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor, agreed to remove the warheads from Cuba as long as president Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. This was one instant in which the U.S enforced containment. Another instant was the Berlin airlift, in which the U.S provided supplies to western Berlin by air when the Soviet Union closed all other forms of transportation into western Berlin. The Soviet Union hoped that by closing off the supply routes into West Berlin that the U.S would remove itself, thus leaving it free for the Soviet Union to invade and finally have control of all Berlin. But instead of removing itself from Berlin the U.S began delivering the supplies through the air, and continued this routine for over a
The Cold War was a war that was fought after the end of WW2. It was between two countries that were considered “superpowers” because they were the two strongest countries left after WW2. The Soviet Union was the country that provoked the Cold War by invading the surrounding countries to its west. According to document one three reasons why the Cold War was fought was because of Spheres of influence, Ideology, and Military factor. During WW2 both the Soviet Union and the West had fought together against Germany. But after the war the West decided that the Soviet Union couldn’t be trusted anymore. Remembering the Hitler-Stalin treaty. The Hitler-Stalin treaty basically said that if Germany won the war then Poland would …show more content…
The U.S foreign policy was created to limit the Soviet influence on the rest of the world. One example of this was the Cuban missile crisis. The Cuban missile crisis was when the Soviet Union attempted to place nuclear warheads in Cuba. President John F. Kennedy agreed to place a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent the Soviet threat. This lasted 13 days in which Nikita Khrushchev, Stalin’s successor, agreed to remove the warheads from Cuba as long as president Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba. This was one instant in which the U.S enforced containment. Another instant was the Berlin airlift, in which the U.S provided supplies to western Berlin by air when the Soviet Union closed all other forms of transportation into western Berlin. The Soviet Union hoped that by closing off the supply routes into West Berlin that the U.S would remove itself, thus leaving it free for the Soviet Union to invade and finally have control of all Berlin. But instead of removing itself from Berlin the U.S began delivering the supplies through the air, and continued this routine for over a