Soviet Union

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…

On the contrary, East Berlin was still struggling due to the Soviet Union taking their resources. Joseph Stalin went into action when he realized the huge contrast between West Berlin and East Berlin. Stalin wanted the western allies to leave West Berlin. On April 1,1948, the Soviet military government in Berlin landed a blockade of the allied areas of the city. For ten months over two million tons of supplies were airlifted…

One similarity between the two was the difficulties and hardships each country had to go through which ultimately led to their power increasing. For Stalin, the Soviet Union was always in a state of civil war before his dictatorship, first the October Revolution, then the February Revolution, and even after Lenin took over the government, there were still many incidents of civil fighting going on in Russia. Not only…

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…

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…

international relations between the West and the Soviet Union. With the defeat of the Nazis, the United States and Britain were concerned about the stagnation and turmoil of the European countries affected by the war and introduced the Marshall plan, a rapid economic reconstruction of Western Europe. But Stalin did not want the Soviet Union to participate in the Marshall Plan and therefore negotiations between the United States, the West, and the Soviet Union ceased, thus beginning the Cold War.…

Containment was the idea that the Soviet Union and Soviet communism should not be allowed to spread. A short passage, from a telegram that was secretly sent to U.S. State Department officials on February 22, 1946 from an American foreign service officer in Moscow makes it clear that Joseph Stalin and the Soviets believe communism is better than capitalism. “In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long term,…

America intervention, the level of superpower relations was at an all-time high due to the emergence of two superpowers in the international arena; the United States and the Soviet Union however, the Cold War was seen as seen as a cushioned for stabilization for these superpowers. The United States relationship with the Soviet Union saw both superpowers locked a geopolitical and ideological struggle for supremacy, over one another as an inexorable characteristic of powerful states seeking…

One of the most defining moments in the relations between the United States and the Soviets in the course of the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis that took place in 1962. It marked a time when the two nations were nearly involved in a war with the possibility of using nuclear weapons, and after it had passed, the two superpowers started pursuing ways of adjusting to one another, especially, aiming at preventing the use of nuclear weapons. The United States intelligence community (IC)…

clash during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as there was no actual fighting between these countries. However, the Cold War was a time of strong tension primarily between the United States and the Soviet Union, which affected many countries around the world. During World War II, the USSR and U.S were allies fighting against Hitler and the axis powers. Nevertheless, the political differences between the Soviets and the Americans intensified after the WWII as both…