The fact that there was no need for a unity between the two sides after WW2 meant that the Cold War emerged. The original cooperation was because of the common goal to defeat fascism and Gaddis describes it as “a single planet shared by superpowers who shared the means of wiping each other out – but who now also shared an interest in each other’s survival.” Geoffrey Roberts further backs up this point as he states that it was “period of cooperation, not confrontation.” Both the West and Russia realised that they needed each other in order to beat fascism and Hitler. Without the USSR 's troops and the West’s funding Germany may have been successful. However, once the war had ended and the fascism threat was dealt with the superpowers continued
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Gaddis agrees with this by saying “Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.” The Anglo-Americans fought for South Korea and the Soviet Union assisted North Korea and China in as many ways they could to establish a communist regime in South Korea. Although the fighting reached stalemate and an armistice was signed in Korea, both Russia and the West saw the war as personal victories against one another. The Anglo-Americans saw it as a victory as they managed to stop the spread of communism but so did the Russians as they managed to protect other communists when North Korea was being bombed. This gave both sides a psychological boost and continued to lead on to more conflict as they saw themselves as strong enough to hold off the other …show more content…
The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the forces fighting for diverse reasons such as capitalism and monarchism known as the White Army. The allied forces got involved in this conflict supporting the White Army by sending in tanks to try and stop the Red Army winning. Although they did withdraw in 1920, the West were clearly against the Bolshevik 's ideologies and this fuelled the fire for what was to come in the conflict between the West and
Gaddis agrees with this by saying “Both the United States and the Soviet Union had been born in revolution. Both embraced ideologies with global aspirations: what worked at home, their leaders assumed, would also do so for the rest of the world.” The Anglo-Americans fought for South Korea and the Soviet Union assisted North Korea and China in as many ways they could to establish a communist regime in South Korea. Although the fighting reached stalemate and an armistice was signed in Korea, both Russia and the West saw the war as personal victories against one another. The Anglo-Americans saw it as a victory as they managed to stop the spread of communism but so did the Russians as they managed to protect other communists when North Korea was being bombed. This gave both sides a psychological boost and continued to lead on to more conflict as they saw themselves as strong enough to hold off the other …show more content…
The two largest combatant groups were the Red Army, fighting for the Bolshevik form of socialism, and the forces fighting for diverse reasons such as capitalism and monarchism known as the White Army. The allied forces got involved in this conflict supporting the White Army by sending in tanks to try and stop the Red Army winning. Although they did withdraw in 1920, the West were clearly against the Bolshevik 's ideologies and this fuelled the fire for what was to come in the conflict between the West and