The Change in Relations between the U.S.A. and the USSR: 1943-1956
Explain why relations between the USA and the USSR changed between 1943 - 1956
Between 1943 - 1956, the relationship between the USA and the USSR dramatically changed. During the Second World War, 1939 - 1945, the USA and the Soviet Union had been fighting together - along with Britain - as allied countries to defeat Nazi Germany. This was known as the Grand Alliance. In 1946, the Grand Alliance broke down and that is when the relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union intensely changed. One of the factors that caused the relationship between the USSR and the USA to change was the fact that the USA were Capitalists and the USSR were Communists. This meant that they supported and believed different things. America wanted people to live a free life - earn as much money as they want, allow the public to vote freely for the Government they want - where as Stalin did not agree and thought that everyone should earn the same amount of money and that the public were only allowed to choose Communists for the Government. This put a big strain on their relationship because it meant that both sides wanted different things to happen in the world and it meant that they couldn't agree on the same things. Another factor which caused the frosty relationship between the two powers, was the Berlin Blockade which Stalin thought would make him more in control of the Eastern/Soviet part of Berlin. Stalin feared that the Western allies were planning the permanent division of Germany. The Western allies also began to develop a new policy such as new currency and a new German assembly which would develop a new constitution, which Stalin did not like. Stalin thought that by Blockading his part of Berlin, it would keep the Eastern part of Berlin separate and protected from the Western and that it would make him look more powerful. A third factor which caused the relationship to significantly change was the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was a promise which
Between 1943 - 1956, the relationship between the USA and the USSR dramatically changed. During the Second World War, 1939 - 1945, the USA and the Soviet Union had been fighting together - along with Britain - as allied countries to defeat Nazi Germany. This was known as the Grand Alliance. In 1946, the Grand Alliance broke down and that is when the relationship between the USA and the Soviet Union intensely changed. One of the factors that caused the relationship between the USSR and the USA to change was the fact that the USA were Capitalists and the USSR were Communists. This meant that they supported and believed different things. America wanted people to live a free life - earn as much money as they want, allow the public to vote freely for the Government they want - where as Stalin did not agree and thought that everyone should earn the same amount of money and that the public were only allowed to choose Communists for the Government. This put a big strain on their relationship because it meant that both sides wanted different things to happen in the world and it meant that they couldn't agree on the same things. Another factor which caused the frosty relationship between the two powers, was the Berlin Blockade which Stalin thought would make him more in control of the Eastern/Soviet part of Berlin. Stalin feared that the Western allies were planning the permanent division of Germany. The Western allies also began to develop a new policy such as new currency and a new German assembly which would develop a new constitution, which Stalin did not like. Stalin thought that by Blockading his part of Berlin, it would keep the Eastern part of Berlin separate and protected from the Western and that it would make him look more powerful. A third factor which caused the relationship to significantly change was the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was a promise which