U.S.A role in the cold war

Once World War II, the United States had successfully happened to be the for the most part authoritative and important country in the world in cooperation militarily and politically. Throughout America’s increase to control, however, among America and the Soviet Union, consequential in a violent competition. The Cold War, which by no means concerned direct military confrontations between the two nations, involved of the fight back to include the spread of communism, extreme anti-communist attitudes in America, and a comeback of the civil rights matter. During the war against Germany, America tended to ignore the military needs of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt hesitated to release a second front against the Nazis and this uncertainty saved many American lives at the expense of even more Russian lives. In totaling to other strategic differences, the two nations ended up racing each other to “liberate” as much of Western Europe as potential; Soviet Russia eager to expand communism and the United States loyal to preventing a potential enemy from gaining a footing in international affairs. The Cold War really began as soon as America gained intelligence that the Soviet Union had detonated an h-bomb. Shortly, the National Security Council issued a statement advocating the construction of an American h-bomb as well as a raise in taxes to sponsor a massive defense budget. To prevent Soviet growth, President Truman adopted a doctrine of control—that is, if Communism threatened the governments of allied nations, the United States had the authority to interfere with military action. Also, America maintained economic dominance by establishing the Marshal Plan, which meant that the United States would give economic aid to European countries so that they could buy American products. Although the Soviet Union forbade its satellite states from participating in this understanding, the Marshal Plan was doing well in putting America in the middle of international economics.

Examples of cold war tensions

Cold War tensions erupted in Korea during the early 1950's. At that time, North Korean troops, in collaboration with the Chinese, invaded South Korea.

-Khrushchev and Kennedy often went toe-to-toe during the Cold War.

-Truman's dislikes Stalin.

-Russia's fear of the atomic bomb.

-The dislike of capitalism.

-Expansion west into Eastern Europe.


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Just the beginning

Winston Churchill issued warnings about the Soviet Union as near the beginning as 1946 when he claimed that an “Iron Curtain” had fallen from corner to corner Eastern Europe to clarify the Soviet Union’s take hold of for command in the region. The term was used all the way through the Cold War. The most important main outcome of the Cold War involved the extraordinary exertion of British and American pilots to maintain West Berlin supplied after the Soviet government stopped all outside ground traffic. Between June 1948 and September 1949, pilots made 277,000 flights into West Berlin, carrying more than two million tons of products including coal for fuel. The conclusion of the Cold War also saw the fall of the Soviet Union, which had united the countries of eastern and central Europe and much of northern Asia under communist rule. The break-up of the union changed the face of Europe and kept mapmakers busy as over twenty new countries emerged or reemerged over the next numerous years. The Cold War was incredibly costly over its four decades, costing the U.S. eight trillion dollars in military expenditures and over 100,000 lives in Korea and Vietnam. Although the exact figures for the Soviet Union are unidentified, they spent a superior percentage of their sickening national product on the war, maybe as much as 60 percent.