Cold War Dbq Essay

The Cold War wasn’t really much a war with large scale fighting between the two sides, the United Sates and the Soviet Union. The war started in 1947 and ended around 1991. The United States saw that The Soviet Union was a trying to spread communism and this was a threat to their effort on trying to let the Eastern Europe countries capitalist countries. The United States formed NATO with other countries to create a protective alliance system. This caused a worry to the Soviet Union, a threat to their security. One can clearly see that the United States was the blame for the increasing tensions during the Cold War by taking drastic measures to protect themselves, forming alliances and being hypocritical towards the Soviet Union. The United States had installed a nuclear arsenal in Turkey, which was not looked on so lightly from the Soviet Union’s view point. Once USSR realized what was being taken place, they placed nuclear bombs in Cuba. As an act of defense, U.S.A decided to allow force if necessary in Cuba to protect themselves from USSR weapons. When reading document four, it

The graph from document six showed that the allies in the Warsaw Pact provided a buffer for the Soviet Union. This was a way for the United States to make sure that USSR would not force communism unto Western Europe. The formation of NATO was a general threat to USSR and the United States was clear on what this would mean. Concluding that the U.S. did not have confidence that USSR would leave the European countries alone, so they had to interfere before the Soviet Union did anything to harm their alliances. Since the unnoted States did not want a repeat of what happened during World War II when they took no immediate action towards Germany and Hitler’s up rise, thus they needed to act fast. In this course of action it caused USSR to feel guarded and betrayed by the United