The Cold War was fought without any physical conflicts‚ taking place approximately between the years 1950 and 1990‚ over the United States of America’s and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics’ conflicting ideologies – capitalism and communism. However‚ it didn’t arise because of what the United States or the Soviet Union actually did. Instead‚ it arose because of what each side was afraid the other might do. Joseph Stalin insisted on Soviet control of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffering zone
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long fence was erected to divide the communist Eastern side of Europe from the Capitalist Western side. The west knew that Stalin could not be trusted after he lied at the Yalta conference in 1945. After Germany was defeated‚ Russia wanted to attack Japan‚ but behind Russia’s back‚ the U.S. and Great Britain dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan infuriating Stalin. All of these events and more created a great divide between Russia‚ the U.S.‚ and Great Britain. After the U.S. president‚ Henry Truman passed
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The United States was in the midst of a massive World War that shook Europe and threatened the very principles of freedom and Democracy. On April 12 1945‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt‚ who has dealt with the majority of the war‚ died of an Intracerebral Hemorrhage leaving Harry S. Truman to finish the global war and handle the future issues of the Cold War that will rise as consequence of World War II. World War II was in the final stages as Nazi German was surrounded and the allies were slowly
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between 1945-1948. The USA implemented the Truman doctrine to contain communism‚ used the Long telegrams to spy on the USSR and gave money to western countries to discourage them from communism. I will explore all of these points in this homework and why America got involved in Europe because of these points. One reason was the Truman doctrine. The Truman doctrine was the idea that the United States would try to prevent communism from spreading. The main idea was called ‘containment’ which involved containing
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The Truman Doctrine and the Development of American Foreign Policy during the Cold War On March 12‚ 1947‚ President Harry S. Truman defined United States foreign policy in the context of its new role as a world superpower. Many historians consider his speech to Congress as the words that officially started the Cold War. The Truman Doctrine was a major break from U.S. historical trends of isolationist foreign policy. His speech led to the Cold War policy of containment. Moreover‚ it served as a
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Daniel Perez December 1‚ 2012 U.S. History Truman Doctrine World War II was a brutal international war that included the great powers of the world which are claimed to be The United States‚ Germany‚ USSR‚ Great Britain‚ Italy and Japan. The war lasted 6 long years‚ but in 1945 Germany and Japan both surrendered to The United States therefore terminating the devastating war. This drastic defeat resulted in The United States and the USSR to emerge as the super powers of the world‚ which then
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The Truman Doctrine Shortly after World War II had ended the Cold War began in 1945. The Cold War was fought between the United States and the U.S.S.R. The Cold War got its name because it never got “hot” with action of an actual battle. It was more of a verbal fighting and threating to blow up each other but never actually doing it. When the United States decided to drop a bomb on Japan‚ the U.S.S.R was mad the United States had secretly developed the bomb. Then Russia started spreading communism
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE During the Cold War‚ most U.S. presidents came up with policies also known as “doctrines” to help remember who stood for what. In this report I will be summarizing a situation that required U.S. diplomatic efforts during President Harry Truman time; explicate the diplomatic doctrine the president followed; describing the effects of this diplomatic efforts for the U.S. and other countries; assess the advantages and disadvantages of the particular doctrine that followed. In February
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Truman Doctrine In February of 1947‚ Britain informed the United States that it could no longer provide financial aid to Greece and Turkey. The U S had been monitoring Greece economically and their political problems‚ paying close attention to the rise of the Communist-led insurgency known as the National Liberation Front‚ or the ( Trumanlibrary2011). They were also monitoring events taking in Turkey. Turkey ’s government was week and they were being pressured by the Soviets to
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Why was the Truman Doctrine formed? When Harry S. Truman took over from Roosevelt in 1945 he made it clear that he intended to contain the spread of communism and his get ‘though plan’ with Stalin was an example of the lengths he was willing to go to. In 1947‚ in an immediate response to the British government announcing that it could no longer afford to keep its soldiers fighting Communist rebels in Greece‚ 2 months later Harry Truman and his cabinet came up with the Truman Doctrine. It barley
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