The crises in Berlin were not purely the result of Soviet Russian foreign policy after World War II. Whilst it is true to some extent that the Soviet Foreign Policy had some influence in the Berlin Crises, there were so many other factors and circumstances that caused the crises to occur. The United States Foreign Policies, conflict in ideology and complex history between the USSR and the United States all had a role in causing the Berlin Crises.
The Soviet Union’s foreign policy was mostly about protection and domination. They were making sure to be prepared for conflict with the capitalist world through the use of the buffer zone, developing new and better weapons and increasing their army however doing the best to avoid it. Their policy …show more content…
The Russian Civil War changed the country to a Communist domain and therefore its relationship with the Western Allies. American involvement whilst limited, contributed greatly to the tension in the Cold War. America feared any form of government that would question the superiority of capitalism. America along with other Western Allies such helped the White Army fight the Red Army who eventually formed the Communist party in the Soviet Union.
During World War Two the United States and Soviet Union were forced into an alliance to fight the greater threat of Nazism. There were tensions in the ‘Grand Alliance’, between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, but the fear of Nazism was strong enough not to break the alliance during wartime. Their suspicion and doubt of each other however was never …show more content…
The capitalist United States and communist Soviet Union had such juxtaposing ideologies and beliefs that caused extreme tension between the superpowers.
The Soviet Union used divide and conquer techniques, imposing communist rule Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wanted a communist system where the government was in control. The United States feared the spread of Communism, seeing it as a threat to their freedom, something felt to be of such a high priority. They felt that they must protect Berlin as if it fell it would not be long before the rest of Europe would fall to Communism.
This conflict in ideology eventually caused the Berlin Wall to be built. At first the people living in the East of Berlin were allowed to travel to the West and were able to see the progress there. Hundreds of thousands defected to the West as the preferred the capitalist way of life. The Soviet Union lost skilled workers and felt threatened they would lose more. In 1961 the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to regain control of East
The Soviet Union’s foreign policy was mostly about protection and domination. They were making sure to be prepared for conflict with the capitalist world through the use of the buffer zone, developing new and better weapons and increasing their army however doing the best to avoid it. Their policy …show more content…
The Russian Civil War changed the country to a Communist domain and therefore its relationship with the Western Allies. American involvement whilst limited, contributed greatly to the tension in the Cold War. America feared any form of government that would question the superiority of capitalism. America along with other Western Allies such helped the White Army fight the Red Army who eventually formed the Communist party in the Soviet Union.
During World War Two the United States and Soviet Union were forced into an alliance to fight the greater threat of Nazism. There were tensions in the ‘Grand Alliance’, between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, but the fear of Nazism was strong enough not to break the alliance during wartime. Their suspicion and doubt of each other however was never …show more content…
The capitalist United States and communist Soviet Union had such juxtaposing ideologies and beliefs that caused extreme tension between the superpowers.
The Soviet Union used divide and conquer techniques, imposing communist rule Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union wanted a communist system where the government was in control. The United States feared the spread of Communism, seeing it as a threat to their freedom, something felt to be of such a high priority. They felt that they must protect Berlin as if it fell it would not be long before the rest of Europe would fall to Communism.
This conflict in ideology eventually caused the Berlin Wall to be built. At first the people living in the East of Berlin were allowed to travel to the West and were able to see the progress there. Hundreds of thousands defected to the West as the preferred the capitalist way of life. The Soviet Union lost skilled workers and felt threatened they would lose more. In 1961 the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to regain control of East