The Cold War was fought without any physical conflicts‚ taking place approximately between the years 1950 and 1990‚ over the United States of America’s and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ conflicting ideologies – capitalism and communism. However‚ it didn’t arise because of what the United States or the Soviet Union actually did. Instead‚ it arose because of what each side was afraid the other might do. Joseph Stalin insisted on Soviet control of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffering zone
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World War Two was one of the most gruesome wars of all time. Nazi Germany‚ Japan‚ and Italy known as the Axis powers fought against Britain‚ United States‚ Soviet Union‚ and France who were known as the Allied powers. This war was fought for many reasons and it prevented Adolf Hitler to expand and become world leader. Hitler’s death and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Japan caused the Axis powers to surrender the war. After WW2 there was a time where the Soviet Union and America had tension with
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keep that hope alive.” This quote from The Truman Doctrine‚ which was first articulated in 1947‚ had multiple factors. These included the Cold War and the threat of Soviet communism‚ the geopolitical disaster from World War II‚ economics‚ the deterioration of Great Britain as a global power‚ the U.S. rise as a new kind of superpower‚ and the well-being of western development. For Harry Truman‚ the president who knew of these issues‚ the United States was the only nation at the end of World War II
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long fence was erected to divide the communist Eastern side of Europe from the Capitalist Western side. The west knew that Stalin could not be trusted after he lied at the Yalta conference in 1945. After Germany was defeated‚ Russia wanted to attack Japan‚ but behind Russia’s back‚ the U.S. and Great Britain dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan infuriating Stalin. All of these events and more created a great divide between Russia‚ the U.S.‚ and Great Britain. After the U.S. president‚ Henry Truman passed
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The United States was in the midst of a massive World War that shook Europe and threatened the very principles of freedom and Democracy. On April 12 1945‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ who has dealt with the majority of the war‚ died of an Intracerebral Hemorrhage leaving Harry S. Truman to finish the global war and handle the future issues of the Cold War that will rise as consequence of World War II. World War II was in the final stages as Nazi German was surrounded and the allies were slowly
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between 1945-1948. The USA implemented the Truman doctrine to contain communism‚ used the Long telegrams to spy on the USSR and gave money to western countries to discourage them from communism. I will explore all of these points in this homework and why America got involved in Europe because of these points. One reason was the Truman doctrine. The Truman doctrine was the idea that the United States would try to prevent communism from spreading. The main idea was called ‘containment’ which involved containing
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World War II was the largest conflict in human history and in the aftermath‚ Europe was devastated. During the war‚ most of the countries in Europe had spent exorbitant amounts of money and their gold reserves were incredibly depleted. In addition to this‚ many countries had taken out large loans to pay for the war. The United States had given the grand majority of these loans and became the largest creditor after the war. Great Britain‚ on the other had‚ had been the largest creditor before the
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reduced incentive to work‚ and practically no rights whatsoever. This was exactly the type of society that President Truman did not support. He felt it was imperative to put an end to the spread of communism‚ and that is what he set out to accomplish during the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine forced change and provided aid to any country whose steadiness was threatened by this type of leadership. This successful doctrine‚ which was first implemented in Turkey and Greece‚ asserts that the U.S. would
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The Truman Doctrine and the Development of American Foreign Policy during the Cold War On March 12‚ 1947‚ President Harry S. Truman defined United States foreign policy in the context of its new role as a world superpower. Many historians consider his speech to Congress as the words that officially started the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine was a major break from U.S. historical trends of isolationist foreign policy. His speech led to the Cold War policy of containment. Moreover‚ it served as a
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Daniel Perez December 1‚ 2012 U.S. History Truman Doctrine World War II was a brutal international war that included the great powers of the world which are claimed to be The United States‚ Germany‚ USSR‚ Great Britain‚ Italy and Japan. The war lasted 6 long years‚ but in 1945 Germany and Japan both surrendered to The United States therefore terminating the devastating war. This drastic defeat resulted in The United States and the USSR to emerge as the super powers of the world‚ which then
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