On August 6, 1945, the first of two atomic bombs was dropped on Japan, sparking the start of what is now known as the Cold War. Two large military powers, the Soviet communists and the United States of America, pitted their wits and defense against each other, using any means necessary to find cracks in the others’ defenses. Three days later, the second atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, which shook the world with its deafening death toll. The world immediately took up arms in the following years, sparking some of the most controversial years in history. Suspicion turned brothers against sisters, neighbors against neighbors, and caused many lives to be ruined.
“In 1994, the Soviets tested an atom bomb of their own.” (History.com Staff, "Cold War History"). This act caused President Truman to spend more money on the army and defense of the United States and panic and hysteria spread to the minds of the people of our country. “...and the world lived under the threat of thermonuclear war for the first time.” (History.com Staff, "Soviets explode atomic bomb").
Disagreement between the two superpowers, the U.S and the U.S.S.R is what started the Cold War, just as disagreement is the start of any other war. Disagreements grew and became feuds and feuds caused tension, which created an uncomfortable position and lifestyle for everyone. When the United States and the Soviet Union’s alliance ended, they realized they had different viewpoint on how nation’s should
As many countries joined WWII, many of them were finding new ways to protect themselves. Thus the atomic bomb was born. The Germans found a way to split a uranium atom that created a huge explosion thanks to famous scientist, Albert Einstein. It wasn't long before the U.S. heard of this and started doing the same thing. In 1941, America hired a German physicist ad created a secret project called The Manhattan Project.
Before the events of the Cold War, World War II had recently ended. The USSR and the United States had fought together during the global war, but when the war reached an end, a tension rose between the past allies over the immense nuclear power both countries possessed as well
Soon after the Cold War came to an end, the United States and the USSR both began military technological advancements. If the USSR could get missiles into space, they could set them off at anyone anywhere. In the interest of protecting America and possibly the rest of the world, the main objective for the Space Race was to protect us against missiles from the USSR military. These advancements led to a competition between the US and the USSR to see who would be the first to space. America and the USSR were two of the most powerful countries in the entire world at that point in time.
The Cold War essentially began due to political and military clashes between the two countries. After WW2, the United States sought for stronger united Germany and independent nations in Eastern Europe. The United States president
Around 1945, tensions began arising between the US and the USSR, which lead to the Cold War. During a 40 year time period, each nation tried to spread their political and economic systems. Both the US and the USSR wanted to spread their ideologies across the world. The origin of the Cold War was distrust; in “fighting” this war, the political and military tactics were the most effective.
The 4 ½ decade long clash between the U.S. and Soviet Union was dubbed “The Cold War” by Bernard Baruch because of the cold relations between the two competitive nations. The tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. began primarily because of the polar opposite ideologies of each nation, the U.S. being Capitalist and The Soviet Union being Communist, causing a multitude of disagreements between the two. The disputes between the two countries began during WWII when the U.S. left their Soviet allies flapping in the wind, when they refused to open a second front, which resulted in the Soviets taking a beating. The U.S. later excluded The Soviets from the Atomic bomb project, since the U.S refused to work with their scientists. The U.S was also becoming
The United States wanted to increase their amount and strength of the atomic bomb, like the ones used in japan in WWII. While the americans were in the support of the development of the atomic bomb, the soviets also wanted to gain the power of the bombs and began creating their own atomic bombs. Both the United States and the Soviet Union were testing their own set of weapons of mass destruction, beginning the atomic age of the cold war. The United States wanted to be on top of the soviets, so in response to the creation of the soviet’s own atomic bomb, americans created the hydrogen bomb, which was way more powerful the the original atomic bomb. The soviets followed and also created their own hydrogen bomb soon after the creation of the hydrogen bomb made by the americans.
This began a long, heated war between the Soviet and the United States, known as the Arms Race. The Cold War had started a couple years earlier soon after the World War had ended. This was basically a period of time where the United States and Soviet Russia exchanged many threats and were extremely hostile toward each other. This was somewhat strange, seeing as how the two countries fought as allies against the Axis powers. However, the United States long feared the spread of communism.
The USSR countered by forming the Warsaw Pact [quite possibly in Warsaw, Poland]; it was also a military alliance, unlike NATO; it protected the communist states of Eastern Europe. From 1945 to 1949, the United States was the only nation to have the atomic bomb. In late 1949, the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb. The United States, under the approval of Harry S. Truman, developed a bomb that was a thousand times more lethal than an atomic bomb, a hydrogen bomb, adding it to the U.S. arsenal in 1952. This indicates that the U.S. simply wanting to outdo the USSR was a cause of the Cold
Each country gradually increased their stockpile, waiting for a spark to ignite the war. Overall, it was the Soviet Union’s response to the US’s bombs that started the Nuclear Arms
hotographs that depicted the horrors of the concentration camps and thousands fleeing from their homes ahad triggered unpleasant memories of the past- WWII. As Samuel Totten pointed out, despite these historical connotations, no country was willing to intervene and endure those costs. For instance, although the United States played a significant role in the United Nations, because the European community decided to take on primary responsibility for Bosnia, the United States did little to alleviate the atrocities, Except the United States was a powerful international player and it was involved in the Cold War. To the United States, the Yugoslavia played an important part in the Cold War, so naturally it was determined to maintain a strong base
After robert oppenheimer made up the atomic bomb, and used the atomic bomb (bomb book). After that day all the countries wanted one so they figured it out and kept passing it down, then almost everyone had a fission bomb. Then after everyone made one everyone was bombing each other. So, russia bomb paris, united states bomb nagasaki and hiroshima (etc). United states wanted to kill everyone one in japan (Hiroshima &
