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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Leila Pithey History discursive essay Grade 11. In response to the growing threat posed by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War II‚ the United States developed a policy of containment as a key strategy to prevent the spread of communism. Between 1945 and 1949‚ this policy proved highly effective‚ largely due to the United States’ implementation of several critical initiatives. These included the Truman Doctrine‚ the Marshall Plan‚ and the Berlin Airlift. Notably‚ just a month before the
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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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Puerto Rico and Guam were ceded to US c. Philippines sold to US for $20M Success: Large expansion of US military territory‚ leads to further expansion under Roosevelt and US entering world politics/conflicts Containment/Cold War Historic Background a) Yalta Conference: End of WW2 (1945). FDR‚ Stalin and Churchill meet and decided to divide the world into zones of control and set up an idea of democratic elections in all the freed
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president. For this example‚ Williams is not using sound historical methods to further his arguments‚ eye witness accounts are usually the most unreliable. Gaddis also uses dodgy historical methods to further his arguments. Gaddis claims in regards to containment evolving against the will of the American people “Indeed some post revisionists have suggested that public and congressional opinion moved in this direction before the policymakers did.” Gaddis proceeds to footnote this sentence in his work to give
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allied against Nazi Germany‚ the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of World War II. Over the following decades‚ the Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world‚ as the U.S. sought the "containment" of communism and forged numerous alliances to this end‚ particularly in Western Europe‚ the Middle East‚ and Southeast Asia. There were repeated crises that
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