How Did The Cold War Start

The Cold War is a fascinating event in modern history that has shaped the modern world; indeed, the ideological competition between East and West has affected nearly every person in the world. Plus the fact that they literally finished a war, so they didn’t have enough power to go and fight just them self, so on the way they also ended up picking up some other places to help. Plus during the War, a lot of other Wars were also started and a lot more people joined in the war. So let’s explain how the cold war started and its offspring wars like the Korean War, The Vietnam War, and how people in Korea were treated, plus how the Cold war ended.
World War Two Ends, Cold War Begins June 25 1950 is the year that the cold war started which is only five years after World War II started on 8 May 1945. The two who were fighting in the war was the Soviet Union and The United States. For example,” The Soviet Union and the United States had fought as allies against Nazi Germany during World War II. But the alliance began to crumble as soon as the war in Europe ended in May 1945.” (“The Cold War”) this shows that just after fighting the war against the Nazi’s they were already itching to go at it with each other. Another example is,” The wartime allies had used Iran – with the Soviets occupying northern Iran and the British and American forces occupying the …show more content…
For example in Korea all the children there had their life sets. As in if you passed elementary you had to choose from the options they gave you and there wasn’t any other choice. Some people were chosen to keep going to school up to high school and if you passed you had to choose from another harder options of jobs to do, and same thing for the people who got to go to college. (Hanawalt) So the people in Korea who weren’t even fighting in the war had to change by the fact they were governed to what life they would