And lately‚ USA has been stamped as aggressor and as an egoist country only caring for themselves. The Cold War had set its toll on the free world‚ even though the USSR and US were never directly at war‚ both sides lost countless men and material goods indirectly fighting each other in foreign lands. After the Second World War the USSR was the new bad dog down the street‚ and USA sough to stop this pest from expanding further than Eastern-Europe and into Asia. In the 1950s it was important for
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threats to his power and also his need to weaken key groups in the USSR through the use of his terror tactics. Secondly I will be talking about Stalin’s paranoia and what happened during the purges. Lastly I will be talking about the three consequences; Stalin’s success in weakening key groups in the USSR‚ his ability of getting rid of the individual threats to his power and the effect that the Purges had on the general population of the USSR and their way of life. Stopping the reading of Lenin’s will
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Cold war enemies‚ the events in 1945 only sowed seeds for conflict‚ but in fact it was the way the powers reacted to events afterward that actually turned the U.S and USSR into cold war enemies. (Kelly Rogers and Jo Thomas‚ 2008‚ pg.36) The end of the war in itself meant that there was no common interest holding the USA and USSR together‚ thus already hinting that there was a strong likelihood of them going against each other and
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stumbled on and fell." (Moshref‚ R. (Date Unknown). The roll of Afghanistan in the fall of the USSR. Retrieved April 13. 2004 from the World Wide Web: http://www.afghan-web.com/history/articles/ussr.html.). First of all‚ as this researcher has stated in the previous paragraph‚ the Soviet Invasion of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was‚ in the end‚ a failure. Due to this‚ the government of the USSR was forced to spend enormous amounts of money to support the war‚ which was completely wasted
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to rapidly increase‚ while also bringing forth the same paranoia and anti-communist sentiments to American citizens that had been seen once before in the original Red Scare. The spread of communism through Eastern Europe‚ the growing power of the USSR‚ and the escalating anti-communist sentiments of the American people greatly increased the suspicion and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 40’s. Communism’s spread through the Soviet Union caused for major tensions
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make their part of Berlin a ‘show window’ for their system and aimed to make it alluring to people on the other side. The Powers wanted to maintain the status quo in Berlin but….Berlin was located at the front line of the Cold War between USA and USSR and it became a focus of Cold War tensions between communism and democracy in the 1960’s. Since Berlin‚ the capital‚ was located deep in the Soviet Zone and divided into four parts‚ it was a big threat for the East because democratic West Berlin
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commitment‚ May discovers that cold war ideology and the domestic revival [were] two sides of the same coin: postwar Americans’ intense need to feel liberated from the past and secure in the future. (May‚ p. 5-6‚ 10) According to May‚ "domestic containment" was an outgrowth of the fears and aspirations unleashed after the war -- Within the home‚ potentially dangerous social forces of the new age might be tamed‚ where they could contribute to the secure and fulfilling life to which postwar women and
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EUROPE that Berlin/Germany had to rise and develop economically • USSR was against Germany’s rise/ economic development= threat for USSR and caused fear over the rise of a stronger fascist state • Secret conference held in London discussing future of Germany by France‚ US‚ UK- the Soviet Union was left out of talks caused USSR to feel angry + caused an increase in rise of tensions • Allied Control Council(ACC)-made up of USSR‚ US‚ France and UK ACC met up regularly to ensure a flow of info
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generally associated with the relations between USA‚ USSR and China. The détente was witnessed in the 1970s‚ mainly because there was a growing fear of a nuclear holocaust especially with the growth in those countries that had nuclear weapons‚ such as USA and USSR. The détente consisted of many events‚ right from the decisions made after the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ to the Helsinki agreement in 1975. In doing so‚ it seemed to ease tensions between the USA and USSR in the 1970s. The United States had an
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with other Western European nations grew further apart from the Soviet Union after World War II. The USSR‚ which had been their World War II ally‚ was increasingly seen as a potential aggressor. The United States and several Western European nations agreed that potential Soviet aggression warranted a stronger alliance among them. What resulted was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The USSR had detonated its first atomic bomb in 1949‚ thereby raising additional concerns and solidifying the
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