Congress of Soviets

communism. In the case with Greece and Turkey, they lost support for aid from the British and Greece was in a civil war. The U.S. believed that Soviet was trying to influence the civil war and spread communism into the country. With the aid from the U.S., Greece was able to stop the communist rebellion. Turkey was able to resist the pressure from the Soviet Union to become communist. According to History.com (2009), the effect from the Marshall Plan, promoted European economic integrations and…

too easy on them (313).” Truman was known for being very stern with Soviet leaders and there was often tension and strong animosity between him and Stalin. On March 12, 1947 can be described as Truman’s final boiling point. It was the day America became involved in the Cold War. In an ongoing back and forth battle (nonmilitary) between the United States as well as Soviet Union, more and more tensions grew on either side. The Soviets, over time, were slowly collapsing and when Mikhail Gorbachev…

The Cold War describes the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union that existed after World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Essentially, using proxies, both countries fought each other over the spread of Communism. (Trueman, 2015) One can suppose the Cold War actually began in earnest when the Soviet Union tested its own atomic bomb in 1949. Due to the rising Soviet threat, President Harry Truman, in 1951, created a new federal agency known as the Federal…

Korea 1950, under American leadership, the United nations went into war for the first time. What began as a conflict between rival regimes between North and South Korea, turned into a confrontation between East and West, threatening to escalate into a third world war. The allied forces became embroiled in a war unlike any they have known, yet, for the Americans it served as a military rehearsal, for one, they would come to know, in Vietnam. Reminiscent to the First World War, it started in…

The Cold War, which lasted from 1945 to 1991, was a time of extreme tensions and conflict between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The Cold War gained its name due to the fact that though both countries built up their armies, seemingly in preparation for war, neither one directly confronted each. The differences in markets, governments, and general culture allowed tense relations between the two competing superpowers as each attempted to increase their sphere of influence. As a…

in the Cold War. Great Britain was trying to generate an alliance against the Soviet Union because they were looking to expand communism, which, Great Britain was trying to put and end to.The United States is to blame for the Cold War because of Arm’s Race and by assembling alliances with capitalist countries.Due to them endangering other countries based on their beliefs and their wanted expansion of communism, the Soviet Union is to blame for the Cold War as well as the U.S. The U.S. is to…

The Truman Doctrine The Truman doctrine was quite a profound schema. It sought to bolster the economic situation of two crucial governments-Greece, a monarchy threatened by a communist-led rebellion, and Turkey, from which the Soviets were demanding joint control of the straits linking the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. Britain informed the U.S that they were not up to par to fill this duty because their economy had been shattered by the war, and they were forced to cease any further…

Despite the chaos caused by World War II, an American Foreign Policy was developed. On March,1948, former President Harry Truman announced a new foreign policy during his speech on March 12 with its purpose to encounter soviet geopolitical expansion, also known as Cold War. Almost 15,000 people attended Marshall’s meeting without thinking of the powerful statement he was about to make. Approximately, two years after WWII, Truman performed a speech including a decision that eventually changed the…

their direct outcomes. With the Cold War, well into its second decade there was increased motive to dissolve tensions and increase trade with these two global powers. Nixon like very president before him wanted to avoid a nuclear war and thus wanted Soviet relations improved upon. But on a more selfish note Nixon new that his domestic approval was low and that he needed to boost his voter support by focusing on the positive foreign relations rather than the negative press he was getting from…

and The Soviet Union. The war was mostly about political conflicts that lead to the Containment policy, The Truman Doctrine and Eisenhower’s policies. Those three policies lead to bigger events such as the Korean War and the Cold War at home. The Cold War Origins began in 1947 and ending in 1991. It all started 2 years after WWII when the U.S used the containment policy against the soviets. The containment policy was issued to prevent the spread of communism, which was mostly for the Soviet…