Premier of the Soviet Union

In 1945, the United States and the Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe. However, within just a few years, these wartime allies became mortal enemies, locked in a global struggle to prevail in a new "Cold War." The Cold War was a time of extreme tension between the USSR, or the Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective ideologies. It was not declared in…

of the United States who saved the entire world from destruction, while thermonuclear war was imminent during the Cuban Missile Crisis. This anti-communist, anti-Soviet president led the United States through a period of superiority against the Soviet Union after the president influenced Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to remove Soviet nuclear missiles situated on the island of Cuba located merely 90 miles off the coast of Florida. For generations, President Kennedy was hailed as a hero. However…

Like all presidents of the United States, Richard M. Nixon left behind a legacy. His diplomatic relations with China and the Soviet Union benefitted the United States in many ways. However, the Watergate scandal marred Nixon’s presidency and clouded over all the good that he had done for the country. If placed on a scale, Nixon’s successes would definitely outweigh his failures. Nixon’s actions concerning the United States’ foreign policy proved to be beneficial. During his administration,…

defense against the Soviet Union was to contain them and not allow for expansion of their physical state or ideology. It was President Truman’s that declared in 1947 that it was the United States responsibility to support a body of people attempting to resist suppression. The strategy would be considered containment. An arms race of nuclear force shortly followed. America developed atomic weapons that would out due the atomic bomb the end product was the hydrogen bomb. Naturally, Soviet leaders…

The Cold War began from mistrust, misunderstandings, and misconceptions between both the United States and the Soviet Union. While World War II was happening the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britan formed allies to take down the Nazis. After the war, the Soviet Union had different goals for the future of Europe than the rest of the Western Allies creating tension. The death of President Roosevelt, who was a supporter of Stalin and replaced with Truman, who agreed heavily with Britain,…

the Soviet Union a cold war because it was a war that lacked physical fighting. Instead of physical fighting, the Cold War was a war between Soviet Communism and American capitalism over information. Both sides feared the other’s nuclear capabilities. In the quote, Baruch touched on how our enemies can be found both abroad at home, and one can interpret that as meaning there are spies who were on the side of the Soviet Union, such as the Rosenbergs. Baruch truly touched…

and the Soviet Union’s reactions and perceptions differed in the years leading up to and during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The evaluation of the two countries will dwell into war time reporting, retrospective analysis, opinion polls, and the opinions of relatives of the leaders, among other aspects of the crisis. Newspaper articles will be used to assess the differing reactions of the press, while books and interviews will provide invaluable retrospective analysis. Two sources, “Soviet…

the Soviet Union and the US thought differently. The Soviet Union wanted to expand their land making Korea a communist land and the US countered that by trying to make Korea be a democracy. They were using cold war logic on both Korea and Vietnam. The type of Cold war logic is called Multinational Alliances. The US were stressing the policy of “Containment” which is to make communism not spread. This caused Korea to be split in half, the north side would be communist and a part of the Soviet…

geopolitical and ideological battle between two superpowers: the United States of America (USA) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) that started at the end World War II and lasted until the disunion of the Soviet Union. The era was marked by continuous conflict between two superpower states that ranged from nuclear submarines to most advanced technology at the time. The two nations, the Soviet Union and the United States were never enemies before on any field, in fact, they have…

The United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies during World War II against the Axis Powers. Although they had fought as allies, the relationship between the two was one of much tension. For a long period of time, the United States had been wary of the Soviet communism, and had concern about the Russian leader Joseph Stalin’s bloodthirsty, tyrannical rule of his own country. In turn, the Soviets had resented the Americans for their decades-long refusal to treat the USSR as a…