After World War II ended, many of the former superpowers were weakened. This left two major powers, the USA and the USSR in power. Because of differences in political ideologies and egos, another conflict arose. This conflict is called the Cold War. Many countries were terrified since nuclear war and World War III was a possibility if the war didn’t stop. It affected many regions of the world, particularly East and West Berlin and Cuba.
The Soviet Union helped Cuba and established in the world as more than one of America’s allies. In actuality, Cuba was treated more like a colony than anything else, and the US was blind to its needs. America ignored the oppressive and dictatorial regime of Batista, and instead backed him since he kept his ‘democratic’ …show more content…
They enforced harsh rules and restrictions, and did not care about the poverty of the people there. The majority of his hostility came from his vendetta and annoyance with the Allies.
The Allies wartime conference resulted in the splitting up if Germany. The Soviet Union got one part of it and the other part went to Britain, America, and later on France. The Soviet-half (East Berlin) practiced communism while the Allied-half (West Berlin) was more democratic and capitalistic. At first Britain, America, and France independently owned their own occupation zone but they decided to unite it. The Soviets responded with a blockade, meant to starve Berlin out. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift until the Soviets gave up.
The USSR was embarrassed by this event and the mass exodus of people leaving from East to West Berlin. The civilians didn’t want to live under communism or be ruled by the Soviet Union, causing them to flee. It’s estimated that 3 million left after the blockade was lifted, and in the months after around 67,400 more fled to West Berlin. Many of these people were young skilled workers like doctors, engineers, and teachers. With the economy in East Berlin as fragile as it was, they could not afford to lose more people and money. And so the Berlin Wall was
The Soviet Union helped Cuba and established in the world as more than one of America’s allies. In actuality, Cuba was treated more like a colony than anything else, and the US was blind to its needs. America ignored the oppressive and dictatorial regime of Batista, and instead backed him since he kept his ‘democratic’ …show more content…
They enforced harsh rules and restrictions, and did not care about the poverty of the people there. The majority of his hostility came from his vendetta and annoyance with the Allies.
The Allies wartime conference resulted in the splitting up if Germany. The Soviet Union got one part of it and the other part went to Britain, America, and later on France. The Soviet-half (East Berlin) practiced communism while the Allied-half (West Berlin) was more democratic and capitalistic. At first Britain, America, and France independently owned their own occupation zone but they decided to unite it. The Soviets responded with a blockade, meant to starve Berlin out. The Allies responded with the Berlin Airlift until the Soviets gave up.
The USSR was embarrassed by this event and the mass exodus of people leaving from East to West Berlin. The civilians didn’t want to live under communism or be ruled by the Soviet Union, causing them to flee. It’s estimated that 3 million left after the blockade was lifted, and in the months after around 67,400 more fled to West Berlin. Many of these people were young skilled workers like doctors, engineers, and teachers. With the economy in East Berlin as fragile as it was, they could not afford to lose more people and money. And so the Berlin Wall was