Causes Of The Cold War

The allied powers were the Soviets, the United States, and the British. It is very hard to believe that they were allies because these countries all had different economic visions and they all seeked for control and power. These differences is what cause the dispute, which ended in the Cold War. The main cause for the Cold War was for these allies all having different visions on post-war Europe. This war made us face a lot of deaths, loss of foods, loss of shelter, and a loss of peace.
Tensions between the United States, France, and Britain sent their troops to and useful resources to the White Russians so that they could take down the Bolsheviks who were communists. Even with the help with troops and resources, the White Russians were defeated …show more content…
Before World War 11, there was an alliance between the USSR, the United States, and Britain, even though none of these countries were could actually trust on another. These countries were only allies because they had the same goal, and did not like the same people, and these people were Nazi Germany. As time went on, there was an obvious vision that Britain and the United States were on one side, and the USSR was on the other. After World War 11, the effects of distrust were present and problems between these countries arose. They all had different visions of how Europe should be after the war. France, England, United States, and the USSR split into different controls. The United States controlled West Germany and the USSR controlled East Germany. The USSR was communist so they wanted to make all the land they controlled into communist countries. Communism is where the government owns everything, and they get to decide what gets distributed too. Everyone who works gets paid the same amount and they also get taxed the same amount. This may sound good but it is not fair for the people who either had a higher education, or worked harder. This was a problem with the United States …show more content…
There were a lot of consequences of superpower manipulation. The Middle East had a huge spurt of having so much oil, which the Europeans depended on. A numerous amount of crisis’s occurred because of the control of oil and the distribution of oil. The biggest resource that the Middle East had was oil, which oil is highly needed. The Soviets wanted access to oil in Iran, but they had a struggle to gain control of the oil in Iran. Also for exporting, importing and traveling into the Mediterranean Sea, the United States would have to go through the Bosporus Strait, which belongs to the Middle East. The Middle East was what both the Soviets and the United States were interested in the most after the Cold