The Cold War was a rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union after the end of World War II. The term Cold War was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published in 1945 to refer to what he predicted would be a nuclear stalemate between “two or three monstrous super-states, each possessed of a weapon by which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds. (“Cold War”, 1)” The cold war was fought over the US and Soviet Union trying to gain control over most of Eastern Europe, because they were worried about the up rise of Germany after their surrender. This caused some ground combat between the US and Soviet Union but that was just the way of the US keeping all of our allies on our side and them not getting …show more content…
This was the whole purpose that Stalin had invaded into Europe because he wanted to spread communism across the world. The Cold War had solidified by 1947-48, when U.S. aid provided under Marshall Plan to Western Europe had brought those countries under American influence and the Soviets had installed openly communist regimes in Eastern Europe (“Cold War”, 2). The Marshall Plan was a US program designed to reshape the economies of Europe and to bring back there democratic governmental system. The Cold War then started to escalate again shortly afterwards. The US and our allies then formed NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which was a treaty that put the US and its allies against Soviet Union and they were trying to push them out of Europe. The Soviets then exploded their first atomic bomb in 1949 (“Cold War”, 4), which really changed up our tactics for getting them out of Europe. After the fact the Chinese communists came to control most of China, and the Soviets then supported the communist’s views that were coming out of North Korea. This then set off a Korean War that we then got pulled into because we wanted to help protect South Korea. Then there long lasting dictator Joseph Stalin then passed in the year 1953, which put most of the cold war worries off