Berlin Blockade

The Origin of the Cold War Prior to the start of the Cold War, Europe was suffering from post war troubles that had occurred as a result of World War 2. The war had caused all sorts of chaos. Populations were left dislocated and wandering, the economy was suffering, food and fuel supply was low, and the social order of Europe was threatened (Dunn, 777). All over Europe, sympathizers and upset citizens executed hundreds of Nazi members, and ransacked and shaved the heads of women accused of…

spies. Intelligence agencies were very important in the cold war because there was no actual fighting. In 1962 the US discovered that the Soviet Union was constructing missile-launchers in Cuba that could reach cities in America. The US set up a blockade in Cuba to stop equipment and supplies reaching the island and asked the Soviets to deconstruct the missiles and equipment already there. In 1963 the US and Soviet Union signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned them from testing nuclear…

Britain and France to take control of all of Berlin, which was divided between the four countries after World War II. Stalin closed all roads and railroads into Berlin to force the other countries out of the capital city. However, the United States would not give in to the power of Joseph Stalin and they started to airlift supplies into Berlin, which continued for nearly a year. Stalin realized that the blockade was not effective, so he ended the blockade on May 12, 1949 (Hoobler and…

Baden-Baden under French control and East Berlin under Soviet control. With Germany being divided in four, issues began to develop between the different zones on how to rule and rebuild Germany, although “the American member held the goofy belief that he could gain Soviet trust and cooperation through personal friendliness” (Maddox 1321). In 1948 one of the first major international…

was completely different. What caused Germany to undergo such a drastic change and defeat is hard to define due to the several possible factors, such as the failure of the Schliefflen Plan, Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare and the British Blockade. However,…

If it hadn’t been for the U.S and it’s allies, West Berlin would have surrendered. Finally on May 12, 1949, Stalin removed the blockade. This demonstrated the American policy of containment because the U.S was doing everything it possibly could to keep West Berlin from becoming communist. Document D states Fidel Castro’s takeover of Cuba. Soviets shipped forty thousand troops, sixty missiles, and one hundred…

In 1948, the Berlin Blockade by Soviet Union encouraged the establishment of the Containment policy in the United States foreign policy, which called for halting communism in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. By adapting the Containment policy, the Truman administration…

the costs and benefits of every option available to them and instead settle for the first proposal that adequately addresses the issue. Under this lens, certain matters are explained – the poor camouflage of Soviet missile bases, the decision for a blockade rather than an airstrike and Soviet withdrawal from Cuba in the face of US decisive action. This model goes into detail to illustrate the reality behind how decisions are implemented but minimizes the impact of…

Wilson’s blunder Like Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson is one of the best presidents who just served at a bad time as claimed by Kendrick A. Clements, a historian formerly at the University of South Carolina. Clements praises the Wilson administration for its foreign policies and helping America emerge as a world power. Jim Powell of the Cato Institute, on the other hand has a different opinion. According to Powell, Wilson is the worst president in American history. He says, in his need to join the…

The cold war was a war between America and its allies and the USSR also known as the Soviet Union. The war never got the point of any battlefield engagements. It lasted from 1947 to 1991 when the Soviet Union broke apart and many nations were formed from the broken alliance. The US and the soviets were neutral to each other until after World War II when both superpowers rose from the ashes of the war an got paranoid of their allies. In 1939 the Soviet Union engages in total war with the Axis.…