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Cold War Grand Alliance Essay

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Thesis Despite being allies during World War II, the Cold War developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after the disintegration of the Grand Alliance because of disputes over Eastern Europe, Germany, and European Reconstruction. History The Cold War started after the two main victors of WWII (The US and the Soviet Union) had proclaimed their commitment to the postwar unity and cooperation. By the end of 1947 the public harmony had been replaced by mutual recrimination about who was to blame for the postwar breakup of the allied coalition that had defeated Hitler, each side blamed the other for generating the political. The Cold War was dispute between Soviet Union and United States. The Cold war was not a physical fight “From the very beginning of the cold war there was a dispute about its origins “ (Starting Cold War 2000). People believe that the Cold War started in 1917 instead of 1947 because the first school thought of the cold war as a phase and a long history of antagonistic relations between the Soviet Union and the west. it is argued, started when the post flex seized power in 1917 and began at the socialist experiment in Russia. Grand Alliance …show more content…

Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Truman and Attlee agreed on the need for a peacetime grand alliance. The governing concept was that the postwar world should be shaped by the Big Three to assure peace, security and prosperity for all nations. The British and Americans opposed Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. Churchill was no longer Prime Minister and his speech was not an official statement of British government

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