Subject: History Topic: 4.1 The Outbreak and Escalation of the Cold War. Reasons for Cold War |What are the reasons for the Cold War? |What are these reasons about? |Why did these reasons cause the Cold War?| |1. Differing political systems |The West was capitalist while the East |This led to Cold War because as their | | |was communist. The West believes in |political beliefs were different‚ both | |
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States (US) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) fought each other in many different battlefronts but never involving actual armed conflict with each other. This war lasted for about half a century and in this essay I shall relate the origins and the early manifestations of this war. The most significant reason for the start of the Cold War was the opposite and conflicting ideologies existing within the two superpowers. Communist USSR held principles that went against the principles of
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including the United States‚ the UN forces‚ the People’s Republic of China‚ and the Soviet Union. It has at times been termed as a civil war between the two Koreas; at other times it is described as a proxy war between the forces of Communism led by USSR and China on the one side and the forces of Capitalist led by United States. Going back to a bit of history‚ we have the imperial Japanese rule: the defeat of Qing Dynasty in the Sino Japanese war led to the Japanese occupying the Korean empire
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Conference of 1922‚ held in Washington D.C‚ was hosted in the goals of achieving major naval disarmament. The world’s nine major powers: United States‚ Britain‚ China‚ France‚ Japan‚ Italy‚ Belgium‚ Netherlands‚ and Portugal with the exception of the USSR met from November of 1921 to February of 1922 to discuss the major foreign
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justify US intervention to prevent the spread of world wide Communism (containment). One could argue that a ‘mirror image’ argument can justify Soviet intervention in Korea. Being one of the only Communist states in the world‚ the soviets felt encircled by countries influenced by the West. Therefore Stalin and the USSR felt any country facing a Communist revolution should have the backing of the USSR. This would not only give the USSR more allies around the world‚ but would also reduce world-wide US
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The Cold War was a rivalry between two international super powers with opposing views: The Capitalist United States and The Communist USSR. These two super powers often butt head with each other on many subjects such as: economy‚ policy‚ and ideologies. Although they were allies in the fight against Hitler’s Germany‚ both superpowers similarly saw the other as a threat. Both superpowers knew that a direct fight to settle the score could risk another war. Therefore they indulged in a war of attrition
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the USSR were responsible for the start of the Cold War in their aggressive expansionism following the end of World War II. However‚ revisionists such as William Appleman Williams suggest that the relationship between Russia and America was weak before the Cold War‚ but that there were issues between the two powers before and during the war‚ and that the alliance between them was merely a marriage of convenience. The events of 1945-6 were important that they turned the tension between the USSR and
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Communism further than his ‘sphere of influence’ but it was seen differently‚ so America used the method of containment to stop the flow of communism. I can understand why this suspicion aroused‚ but in this paragraph‚ it clearly states that there are other factors leading to the blame of the Cold War. Following on‚ I believe that there were other primary factors‚ shifting part of the blame from the USSR‚ although this still doesn’t account for most of it‚ due to the USSR’s actions in the Cold War‚ such
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Shamil Aly IB History HL Period E 26th January 2011 Re-do Test Essay (Question 2) During the Second World War‚ Truman and Stalin were allies because the US and the USSR were the two most powerful countries that took part in the war. Their will do defeat Germany is what kept their alliance stable and they became much more powerful after combining their powers. After the Second World War the east and the west were having bad relations which caused a separation of the two areas‚ Stalin controlled
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action-reaction sequence of events between superpowers Thesis: While there is no doubt that both Truman and Stalin‚ leaders of the US and USSR respectively‚ had an important role in the outbreak and subsequent development of the Cold War‚ Truman was more to blame and at fault than Stalin. While there is no doubt that both Truman and Stalin‚ leaders of the US and USSR respectively‚ had an important role in the outbreak and subsequent development of the Cold War‚ it can be argued that Truman was more
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