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Ending in 1 991, this war left a drastic mark in how war and the world works, despite not having direct military conflict. But, how did tensions between two nations start and how much exactly did it change? In a way you expected, issues between The Soviet Union and U. S may have started before the conclusion of The Second World War. Before 1 941, The Soviets helped the Axis achieve it agenda. However, due to a betrayal on Hitter’s part, The Soviets decide to help the Allies by conquering Berlin of April 30, 1945, leading to the suicide of Hitler and his wife Eva. Afterwards, U.
S lease merciless hell upon the Japanese by using the disastrous Atomic Bomb. Soon afterwards, The Axis power surrender under the mighty force of The Allies. Yet after this war, Soviet forces and U. S slowly grew to hate each other. But, why was that? Was it because of the Soviet’s neglect of Eastern Europeans through totalitarian might, disobeying their agreement of allowing the people to be able to alter their own fate after dividing Germany into four equal pieces. Or was it due to the Americans ignorance of Soviet security concern, after their prideful showing of the A-Bomb to the Japanese in WWW?
Or, was it the accusations by the Soviets of merely using the Russian to take the brunt of Hitter’s army? Either way one judges the catalyst, the results are the same. During a conference in Tehran, The Big Three (Roosevelt; U. S President, Churchill; Prime Minister of England, and Joseph Stalin; Soviet Union President) met for a heated debate mainly over Poland. The English and Americans wanted to promote nation the ability to choose their own future through their choice of government. Stalin, however, promoted the Polish Communist party, one of two parties striving to reclaim a newly liberated Poland.
The National Socialist Party had attacked the Russians through Poland twice during the war, being the nation to suffer sixty times more citizen casualties than the US. To Stalin, it was merely a security concern. He wanted to avoid such a mistake again by having a Communist, friendly Poland dominated by the Soviet Union. In the end a Communist Poland was announced for The Soviet due to a reluctant compromise by both US and Great Britain. Here at Tehran and Yalta of 1 945; these leaders managed to settle border disputes, organize occupations for post-war Germany and Japan, even starting the United Nations. The U.
S and England’s compromise was not in vain, for Stalin agreed to sign “The Declaration of Liberated Europe”. This agreement forced The Soviets to aid these countries from Nazi Germany and other Axis states by democratic means (politics and economics). These meetings were not true compromises, however. As Stalin felt glad for winning the Anglo American acceptance from De facto, Churchill and Roosevelt Were glad Stalin accepted self-determination as a principle. But the two parts of the agreement were mutually exclusive; what would happen if the Eastern Europeans sought to self-determine themselves out of the Soviet orbit?
This led to future disputes over the agreements of Yalta; it was inevitable that a war was to take place. The idea of war was quickened after the death of President Roosevelt from an unexpected brain hemorrhage on April 12 1945. Soon to take his place was Vice President Truman. President Truman viewed the later intervention of Eastern Europe by The Soviets as violation of Yalta agreement, using this info to prove Stalin a untrustworthy liar and fraud. Truman decided to blockade the influence Of The Soviets through locations across the world. Soon, the iron curtains divided Eastern and Western Europe, as if in preparation for the AR to come.
The war was nearly fought in secret. While The Soviets seemed to help the Greeks rebel against its government, it was actually an attack to overthrow British rule there. Through Truman, the Americans managed to not only aid Greece, but people across the world. Trauma’s policies allowed Turkey to resist their Soviet tyrants and helped the Greeks eliminate the Soviet backed rebels. Despite being secret, it had the forceful determination to achieve goals, as any other normal war. Despite being a war, both sides wanted to avoid nuclear warfare. The Soviets greed to tear their walls in Berlin just to avoid the possibility Of a nuke.
Despite this, several bloody wars were fought due to this one: The Korean War, Vietnam, even the Soviet War of Afghanistan. Not only there was a battlefield in politics and economics, there was war raging among the culture and sciences of both nations. Nations fought to have the most cultural impact throughout Europe. The Americans brought libraries, rock and roll albums, and operas to Europe. The Soviets tried banning the growth of American culture at first, than vainly tried to oppose it with alternatives. Games of chess became battlegrounds for the nations, exampled by Bobby Fisher’s triumph over USSR player Boris Spays.
The nations even fought over Olympics and sports. In Science, both sides fought over the Space race. First initiated by the Soviet creation of the Satellite in 1 957, Sputnik, it ended with a American victory with Neil Armstrong landing on the moon on July 21 , 1969. While a tense war there are several lessons to learn from it. First, the idea of achieving peace through science and technology is proven a myth. After World War 1 , people thought it Was the war to end all Wars. Next Was WWW, a war so atrocious people claim Hitler as the worse man in history.
Then The Cold War escalates the possibility of extermination through Improved weaponry, A-Bombs-Bombs, and Nukes. Second, How the Soviets lost is important. The USSR did not lose because of military actions by the United States, The Soviet’s empire collapsed upon itself, despite claims of several nuclear weapons ahead of the world. The corruption, tyranny, over- expansions led to their ultimate demise in 1991. The people finally rebelled. Their military could not support itself. Ties to too many countries also affected their economy severely. The Soviets prove it is unwise to build large houses with weak nails.