causes of the cold war ROHAN SINGH SEPTEMBER 2012 Name of University: The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences Subject:Political Science Date of Submission:1st October‚ 2012. “Why the Iron curtain descended”: A study into the origins and causes of the cold war INTRODUCTION On April 16‚ 1947‚ Bernard Baruch‚ former advisor to former U.S. Presidents‚ Harry Truman and Woodrow Wilson came up with the term ‘Cold War’ to describe
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warmth of the handshakes did not last” (berlin‚ kores and cuba: how did the us contain communism 389). The Cold War was a period of political and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ which lasted from the end of World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The major goal of the United States during this time was to contain the spread of communism. The US contained communism during the Cold War‚ in many different ways including the Truman Doctrine‚ the Long
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the Cold War The origins of the Cold War came about when United States President Harry Truman issued his Truman Doctrine. This doctrine stated that the United States would support "free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This would end up being the foundation of the U. S. involvement in the Cold War. The main idea of the doctrine was to support nations in the resistance of communism. Truman felt that if one nation fell to communism then
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Orthodox interpretation of the origins of the Cold War notes that expansionary tendencies of the Soviet Union as a primary influence of the outbreak of the Cold War. According to the Orthodox interpretation‚ the quintessential wisdom among American politicians and diplomats at the time was that Soviet Union after the end of the World War II‚ sought to expand its area of hegemonic control. Scholars like George F. Kennen‚ William H. McNeill‚ Herbert Feis and Arthur M. Schlesinger shared similar point
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America’s role in the Cold War After World War II‚ the United States had effectively become the most powerful and influential country in the world both militarily and politically. During America’s rise to power‚ however‚ hostilities mounted between America and the Soviet Union‚ resulting in a fierce rivalry. The Cold War‚ which never involved direct military confrontations between the two nations‚ involved of the struggle to contain the spread of communism‚ extreme anti-communist attitudes in
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Communist Threat Essay Australia responded to the threat of communism both internally and externally. Australia responded to various external threats during the 1950’s. The first threat was the Korean War in 1950 to 1953. Following 1945‚ Korea had been divided into communist North Korea‚ supported by the Soviet Union and later China‚ and non-communist South Korea‚ supported by the United States. North Korea invaded the South‚ and gained control of almost the entire country. Us president Truman
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After World War 2 the United States moved from an isolationist policy to a policy of engagement. The United States of realize that in order to prevent the expansion of Communism it would need to have a more active engagement. Potsdam would be the final time that Stalin and Truman would cooperate for a long time. The struggle between these two superpowers that believe their own economic and political systems were superior to the others would become known as the Cold War‚ a decade-long struggle for
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took hold in Eastern and Western Europe‚ but separation of citizens and invasions ultimately aided religious diffusion in Eastern and Western Europe over time. Eastern Europe had far surpassed Western Europe in trade‚ economics‚ and political unity. Eastern and Western civilization had very different government structures. The Byzantine Empire was ruled by an Emperor and instead of using direct rule‚ they used civil service to effectively run the empire. In contrast‚ Western Europe was divided
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was against capitalism and communism. Each nation had their own type of weapon. The basic weapon that was used during the cold war was mostly nuclear weapons. While the Soviet Union had been taking over other nation‚ the United States have been recruiting nation to defeat the Soviet Union. Even though they had more nations the Soviet Union had not taking over the world. In this world it take many years just to settle who would be the top nation. At the end of the cold war Soviet Union fell but the
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