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years 1. Why did relations between the United States and the Soviet Union deteriorate after World War II? The end of World War II brought the United States and the Soviet Union into conflict over the future of postwar Europe, especially Eastern Europe and Germany. At the end of the war, the Red Army occupied the majority of Eastern Europe, while American and British forces held Western Europe. Stalin and the Soviets viewed control of Eastern Europe as paramount to their future defense.…

An example of the United States weakness would be that since after the war the allies had pulled out all their troops and after that the Russians started to push Berlin. Without the military troops to help they sent supplies, but the manpower was low so they had to resort to volunteering…

with tensions high and certain death hanging over each country, the child asks, “‘Who’s going to drop it, will you, or will he?’ ‘Be patient,’ said Grandpa, ‘we’ll see, we’ll see.’” (Seuss). A similar circumstance was Soviet Russia and the United States had threatened each other and were waiting for the other to begin what would’ve been a nasty war. Dr. Seuss’s brief children’s book can really be interpreted as a satire of a real event that occurred in the 1950s. This story gave the readers a…

America. After ww II, most of the countries in the northern part of world decided to divide themselves into two large blocs the first bloc was communist and was controlled by Russia, and the other bloc was mostly democratic and was led by the United States. The cold war started on April 25, 1945, at the Elbe River in Germany where two powerful armies met American and Russia cut Germany in two parts. What was Containment? There were three good examples of containment which help explain what it…

only solution. Margaret Thatcher goes to describe how Reagan did not fight the Soviets strengths, but “pressed down on [the] Soviet’s weakness at every point”. Reagan sought to find an alternative to fighting the Union without weakening the United States. By searching for alternate truths of the Soviet, Reagan was able to help the “good will” of the Union escape their dark corridor. After executing a plan that would collapse communism, Reagan shook the hands of the Soviet, offering “sincere…

History awarded a huge place in collective memories to Franklin Delano Roosevelt as one of the most important politician and compelling leader of the World War period, but he was also strongly criticized by historians and diplomats (Henry Stimson, Anthony Eden, etc). They are thinking Roosevelt reacted day by day to events, that he was deceptive, disingenuous and devious. Warren Kimball in The Juggler: Franklin Roosevelt as Wartime Statesman, published in 1991, tried to clear the uncertainties…

2. Cold War II: IS IT POSSIBLE? The confrontation between the European Union and the United States with Russia over current events in Ukraine, cooperation against international terrorism, agreement to Syria’s chemical weapons, cooperation in the Middle East and Afghanistan and Russia’s closer partnership with China have begun to produce gossips of renewal of the Cold War with exchanges of sharp accusations, the statement of economic sanctions, and-most dangerous-military race that would put both…

The start of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Second World War began a series of standoffs and conflicts between the two superpowers. This conflict however, did not remain in the two countries and because both desired dominance over one another but did not want all out war, the conflicts were played out in weaker or smaller countries and regions of the world such as in the Middle East. The United States was attracted to the Middle East due to the containment…

After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union began a decades-long fight for superiority. This fight is known as the Cold War. Although the Soviet Union and the United States did not engage in physical combat or directly battle during the Cold War, they continually antagonized each other through political and economic clashes. One of the biggest and most memorable confrontations of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest…

In the reading of The Marshall Plan Speech, George C. Marshall, Secretary of State, developed an economic program called The Marshal Plan, which aimed to reduce hunger, homelessness, and unemployment to nations in the Western Europe. After World War II, the United States needed to formulate a plan to help rebuild war torn Europe and help create a stronger environment for Europe as a whole. He challenged the countries of Europe to get together and produce a plan for regeneration, which the US…