The Pros And Cons Of The Cold War

The Cold war is a conflict between two major countries back in the mid 1900’s. These countries were US and the USSR, they have been in a fight for many years. Although there is no actual physical fighting going on, but the tension between both countries has been increasing on a high pace ever since the happening of the second world war. There have been many political, economical, and ideological conflicts arousing between both sides. In that time, many decisions were taken that could have delayed this conflict from beginning at an early time. However, it couldn’t have been prevented completely as this competition between these two countries isn’t going to go down by itself. So it was nearly impossible that the Cold war could be avoided in

A newly elected president called Harry Truman refused the idea of communism from spreading or even being used in educated countries. Capitalism gives more freedom and provides each individual with the amount of time that he works and the type of work he’s involved in. It relies on the capability of its individual, rather than the effort of the whole. This ideology opposed the Soviets way of thinking. The American people feared the expansion of communism, they feared the idea of the United states becoming Communist. The Americans wanted to get rich and expand their fortunes. So each country worked on not only spreading their ideologies onto other countries, but preventing the enemy’s ideology from spreading. So as an act of defense, Harry Truman launched the Truman Doctrine in march of 1947. In this Doctrine, Truman promised to aid any Country that is under the threat of Communism. He also declared that it was the policy of the United States "to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."(Digital History). In the mean time, Greece and Turkey were at risk of falling under the hands of communism. Truman feared that if these two particular countries fell under the hands of the soviets, the soviets will gain access on expanding their ideology into western Europe and Africa. So Truman immediately asked the congress for an extremely large

It was also a stimulant to the U.S. economy by establishing markets for American goods. Although the participation of the Soviet Union and East European nations was an initial possibility, Soviet concern over potential U.S. economic domination of its Eastern European satellites and Stalin’s unwillingness to open up his secret society to westerners doomed the idea. Furthermore, it is unlikely that the U.S. Congress would have been willing to fund the plan as generously as it did if aid also went to Soviet Bloc Communist nations.” (The Marshall