Cold War. From the Beginning to Jimmy Carter The Cold War, a state of confrontation between the United States with its allies of the Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and Soviet Union with its allies of Warsaw Pact, begins its history with the end of World War II. After the Europe has been divided into capitalistic and communistic, the two superpowers quietly decided to compete in all of the spheres with the leading of them being arms race. The Cld War was waged n plitical, ecnmic, and prpaganda frnts and had nly limited recurse t weapns. An American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch intrduced the term during a cngressinal debate in 1947. By 1948 the Sviets had installed leftwing governments in the countries of Eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army, and the United States and Britain had responded by ending reparations to the Soviet Union from zones of Germany that those two powers occupied.
The Americans and the British feared the permanent Sviet dminatin f Eastern Eurpe and the threat f Sviet-influenced cmmunist parties cming t pwer in the demcracies f Western Eurpe and elsewhere; the Sviets, n the ther hand, were determined t maintain cntrl f Eastern Europe in order to safe guard against any possible renewed threat from Germany, and they were intent on spreading communism and the Soviet system worldwide, largely for ideological reasons. The Cld War reached its peak in 1948-53. In this perid the Sviets unsuccessfully blckaded the western-held sectrs f West Berlin (1948-49); the United States and its Eurpean allies frmed the Nrth Atlantic Treaty rganizatin, a unified military cmmand t resist the Sviet presence in Eurpe (1949); the Sviets explded their first atmic warhead (1949), thus ending the American mnply n the atmic bmb; the Chinese cmmunists came t pwer in mainland China (1949); and the Sviet-supprted cmmunist gvernment f Nrth Krea invaded U.S. supprted Suth Krea in 1950, setting ff an indecisive Korean War that lasted until 1953. From 1953-57 the Cold War tensions relaxed somewhat, largely owing to the death of the long time soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953; nevertheless, the standoff remained. A unified military organization among the Soviet-bloc countries, the Warsaw Pact was formed in 1955; West Germany was admitted into NATO that same year; and the United States and the Soviet Union contended for influence in Asia, Africa and the Middle East through economic and military aid and through trade and diplomatic initiatives. The last intense stage of the Cold war was in 1958-62.
The Term Paper on To what extent did the events of 1945-1946 turn war-time allies into Cold War enemies?
To what extent did the events of 1945-1946 turn war-time allies into Cold War enemies? During the Second World War, the United States and Russia had been allied in order to defeat Nazi Germany. However, following the end of the war and the victory over Germany, relations between America and the Soviet Union began to decline, culminating in the Cold War. Whilst the orthodox view of the Cold War, as ...
The United States and the Sviet Unin began develping intercntinental ballistic missiles, and in 1962 the Sviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that culd be used t launch nuclear attacks n U.S. cities. This sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis a cnfrntatin that brught the tw superpwers t the brink f war befre an agreement was reached t withdraw the missiles. After 1962, when bth the United States and the Sviet Unin had clearly shwn that neither was ready t use nuclear weapns fr the fear f the thers retaliatin (and thus a mutual atmic annihilatin), the Cld War may be cnsidered t have begun a decline. There were many influential peple during the histry f the Cld War. A few include Jhn F Kennedy, Senatr Je McCarthy, Mikhail Grbachev, and Jseph Stalin. Each f these peple played an imprtant rle in the Cld War althugh nt all n the same side.
The end f the Cld War is thught t be the cllapse f the Sviet Unin (during which the United States was guided by Ronald Reagan), however, it was the 39th President of the United States Jimmy Carter, who, upon his election of the president in 1977, placed a solid foundation for it. Carter was probably the first one to realize that it is the overall actions of the United States that propagandize the increasing support for the Cold War, which dominated American foreign policy for decades. The United States caused the Cold War by the political decisions that it made and through its use of propaganda. The political decisions made by the United States from WWII onward caused the Cold War to start and to continue for decades. Cold War ended on March 31, 1991, when the Warsaw Pacts military structure was disbanded..
The Report on Drama: War Unit Evaluation
War unit evaluation In this unit we have been looking at different issues emotional and political that surrounds war. For one of our first lessons we were looking at a propaganda poster. The poster shows a family who is watching the soldiers march off to war. The status is clear; the soldiers have the high status because they are commanding everything that’s happening even though they are small in ...
