Intellectual Achievement
The United States and the Soviet Union have had multiple stressing issues throughout history prior to and during the time of the second World War. Such issues were deep-seated mistrust and hostility due to the Soviet government withdrawing Russia from the first World War and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. During the second World War the United States and Soviet Union were allies, based on the common aim to defeat Nazi Germany. However, the Soviet Union’s antidemocratic and aggressive policy toward Eastern Europe created tensions even before the war was over.
Prior to the second World War relations between the two nations were gelid at best. The United States displayed animosity to the Soviet …show more content…
After the Bolsheviks came to power, they established the Comintern in 1919. The Comintern was dedicated to spreading the Communist revolution worldwide and included at least four groups from the United States. When looking at the second World War, the need to understand the United States entered the naval war in August 1941 even though it was officially neutral. Starting on Aug. 12, United States warships escorted British convoys as far as Iceland and Greenland. The U.S. forces also took over the occupation of Iceland following the British invasion of the island and in June 1941, the United States Congress passed the Lend Lease Act, which allowed the United States to lease military equipment to Britain. Shortly, after Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the terms of the lend lease were applied to the Soviet Union and U.S. warships helped escort convoys carrying military supplies to Russian ports as …show more content…
General George S. Patton, advocated rearming the defeated German military and sending it back east into Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe once the Nazis had been defeated. The Soviet Union, moved instantaneously to amalgamate the gains its armies had made during the second World War, inaugurate Soviet-dominated governments in Eastern Europe and constructing what would be known as the Iron Curtain. Also, American fear of Soviet intentions may have led to a quicker dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. In April 1941 the Soviet Union signed a five-year non-aggression pact with Japan, which held for the duration of the five years. Following the surrender of Germany in 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9. Along with concerns that an invasion of Japan would cost up to 1 million American military lives and 5-to-10 million Japanese lives, concerns about expanded Soviet influence in Asia resulted in the United States dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Describing the United States and the Soviet Union as allies during the second World War might be a little generous. A better description might be that of co-belligerents against a common enemy, Germany. There were three changes brought about by the second World War that brought the Soviet Union and the United States into direct competition. First, Germany was defeated
The United States and the Soviet Union have had multiple stressing issues throughout history prior to and during the time of the second World War. Such issues were deep-seated mistrust and hostility due to the Soviet government withdrawing Russia from the first World War and was opposed to a state ideologically based on communism. During the second World War the United States and Soviet Union were allies, based on the common aim to defeat Nazi Germany. However, the Soviet Union’s antidemocratic and aggressive policy toward Eastern Europe created tensions even before the war was over.
Prior to the second World War relations between the two nations were gelid at best. The United States displayed animosity to the Soviet …show more content…
After the Bolsheviks came to power, they established the Comintern in 1919. The Comintern was dedicated to spreading the Communist revolution worldwide and included at least four groups from the United States. When looking at the second World War, the need to understand the United States entered the naval war in August 1941 even though it was officially neutral. Starting on Aug. 12, United States warships escorted British convoys as far as Iceland and Greenland. The U.S. forces also took over the occupation of Iceland following the British invasion of the island and in June 1941, the United States Congress passed the Lend Lease Act, which allowed the United States to lease military equipment to Britain. Shortly, after Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the terms of the lend lease were applied to the Soviet Union and U.S. warships helped escort convoys carrying military supplies to Russian ports as …show more content…
General George S. Patton, advocated rearming the defeated German military and sending it back east into Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe once the Nazis had been defeated. The Soviet Union, moved instantaneously to amalgamate the gains its armies had made during the second World War, inaugurate Soviet-dominated governments in Eastern Europe and constructing what would be known as the Iron Curtain. Also, American fear of Soviet intentions may have led to a quicker dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan. In April 1941 the Soviet Union signed a five-year non-aggression pact with Japan, which held for the duration of the five years. Following the surrender of Germany in 1945, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan on August 9. Along with concerns that an invasion of Japan would cost up to 1 million American military lives and 5-to-10 million Japanese lives, concerns about expanded Soviet influence in Asia resulted in the United States dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Describing the United States and the Soviet Union as allies during the second World War might be a little generous. A better description might be that of co-belligerents against a common enemy, Germany. There were three changes brought about by the second World War that brought the Soviet Union and the United States into direct competition. First, Germany was defeated