Cold War Dbq

Following the end of World War II the previously allied nations, the US and the Soviet Union, began to allow their political and economic differences take forefront over what is now known as The Cold War. The central issue between these countries centered around the practice of communism in the Soviet Union and the United States’s desire to contain it. The tensions between these countries came into the forefront during their attempts to spread their own policies to places such as Berlin, Korea, and Cuba. As the Soviet Union frantically tried to solicit these nations into communism the US succeeded in containing their ventures by setting up the Berlin Airlift, sending troops to South Korea, and putting up a quarantine around Cuba. As a result
After the US supported Bay of Pigs mission attempted and failed to invade and change the political regime in Cuba, the Soviet Union began secretly shipping troops, missiles, and nuclear warheads to their new political allies. In the months that would follow US spy planes would begin to collect evidence of nuclear missile sites being swiftly set up Cuba. As depicted in Document D the United States responded to this threat by setting up a quarantine around Cuba right as the nuclear missiles became operational. In response to the quarantine the Soviet Union began to remove their missiles from Cuba while the United States began doing the same in Turkey. Through the success of the the quarantine and the United States hushed agreement with the Soviet Union about missile removal in Cuba and Turkey the US was able to contain communism in
While some countries like China and Cuba fell to communism other countries like South Korea and West Germany were able to, with US aid, contain the threat posed by the Soviet Union and its political structure. Through the Berlin Airlift, aid in the Korean Civil War, and a quarantine on Cuba the US was successful in their attempts to contain communism and stop it from spreading further. These strategies as well as others such as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan led to an end to the Cold War and a sense of national pride within the United States who felt that their duty to be the “great arsenal of democracy” was