After World War Two the U.S. and Soviet Union had a long-lasting rivalry since the Soviets were communists and the U.S. was not. This period is known as the Cold War because it was a major conflict where the U.S. and Soviet Union fought indirectly. The Cold War impacted the U.S. domestic policy and American society because it created American fear of communism. This fear later led to losing rights and the government switching where their money was being spent in certain areas such as general education.
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union became superpowers due to their nuclear capabilities, had political and ideological rivalry which caused many events in the Cold War between 1945 and 1991. It was a “cold” war because there was no direct fighting between the two nations, but both wanted to prevent the other from spreading their political or economic ideas to other countries. The Soviets sought to spread communism while the United States adopted a policy of containment. Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union began in 1945 during the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. Germany and parts of Eastern Europe were to be divided amongst the Allied forces into temporary “spheres of influence” to rebuild these
The aftermath of World War II marked the beginning of a new era in global politics - the Cold War. Following USSR expansion, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had risen, with both sides seeking to expand their spheres of influence and prestige. The Cold War was fought primarily through proxy wars, and the rivalry between the two superpowers was characterized by an intense nuclear arms race, a space race, and a struggle over political ideology. In the United States, fears about the spread of communism triggered a policy of diplomatic containment. However, as China fell to communism and the Korean War broke out, diplomatic strategies shifted to military strategies.
The Cold War was an intense period with massive global outcomes due to a fierce rivalry between the two superpowers of the world. This war was a clash between communism and capitalism between the US and USSR. Both had the urge for power, an urge for domination over territories, and resources across the globe. The war ultimately ended in an uneven world system and a series of proxy wars. However, in this war, the US and USSR did not ever directly fight each other.
After the end of the World War II, United States faced a strong enemy the communist. It was not the first time that United States fought against communist, but it was stronger than ever before. The war against it was different than anything United States had faced before, and it is called the Cold War. The Cold War was a scientific, social, and armed competition between United States and the Soviet Union. One important region for this war was southeast Asia which both countries, the United States, and the Soviet Union, tried to take control.
The Cold War was a “hybrid” war between the United States and the Soviet Union that started right after the end of World War II in 1947 (Two Super…). Both countries had strong political tensions toward each other. During the Cold War, although the two countries did not battle each other militarily, as a result of all the escalating tensions, the threat of an outright war made all parties nervous. The two countries, along with each other’s allies, differed in their opinions on postwar arrangements, with the Soviets backing out of their promise in the Yalta agreement, they were more interested in the spread of communism in the post WWII era.
After the World War II, The US and Soviet Union emerged as the two superpowers that would influence the world. The US, a democratic nation, and Soviet Union, a communist nation, were exact opposites. As a result of their disagreements, and misunderstanding after WWII, the two nations engaged in what known as the Cold War. They saw each other as a threat to their ideologies. They wanted to influence the economic, politics and military power in the world.
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between these two nations continued to be a tense one. The Cold War, during the years of 1947-1991, was a state of political and military tension created after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc. The Western Bloc was the United States, its NATO allies and others. The Eastern Bloc was the Soviet Union and its satellite states.
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
The Cold War was a rivalry of ideas between USA and the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Both were superpowers with different perspectives on economics and governance. The Cold War involved arms and space race (outdoing each other in technology and power) and proxy wars (both countries used external conflicts to hurt each other’s interests). The Soviet Union was more responsible for the Cold War.
After World War II the alliance between the USSR and the United States, which was forged out of necessity in a fight against a common enemy, quickly broke down. The end of World War II and the founding of the United Nations elevated the United States to being defender of democracy and the free world, putting America directly at odds with the USSR and its communist allies. The result of this tension was the Cold War which lasted from 1945 to 1991, although some people would say that the Cold War never truly ended. During those years, the USSR and the USA partook in an arms race the likes of which the world had never seen before, climaxing with a record breaking 60 megaton hydrogen bomb by the Soviets and putting a man on the moon by the American.
However tensions began to rise amongst the two super powers, United States and the Soviet Union. The tensions between United States and Russia resulted in what is known as the Cold War. The rise of Soviet-American tension came after the period of two disastrous wars. However, the Cold War was unlike any war of the past, although there was high military and political tension, it is referred to by some as a significantly stable time history.
The two superpowers formed huge military forces and amassed massive stockpiles of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. Although the two sides never actually went to war, the United States was drawn into the bloody Korean and Vietnam wars by its policy of containment. The Cold War came to an end when the Soviet Union disintegrated after it became exhausted economically because of competing with the West. The situation left America as the world’s only remaining superpower that did not have to put too much effort to contain the rise of communism.
The Cold War was a period of intensive tension between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (U.S.S.R.) and the United States of America (U.S.A) that spread and disturbed the global relations and peace throughout the world. It was a struggle for global supremacy between the communist U.S.S.R. and the capitalist US. It began after World War II in 1947 after the Yalta Conference and ended only in the eighties or 1991(historians have not fully agreed to the dates). During this period there was no actually wide scale fighting or ‘hot war’ between the two powers directly but the situation was such that it increase the likelihood of a third World War. On one side there was U.S.S.R. and its allies namely Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania and later China (1949), they formed the Eastern Block.
The Cold War is considered one of the longest conflicts the world has endured to this day, lasting from 1947 to 1991, a long 44 years. Even though considered a war, the Cold War was actually a conflict between democracy in the United States and communism in the Soviet Union, in which they fought over which form of government is better through series of political and military tensions. Both nations were considered world superpowers, nations that are stronger than any other nation. After World War II came to an end in 1945, the world was in complete devastation, and over-sea empires that existed before, were forced to come to an end. The United States and Soviet Union were the only two nations left standing with enough resources to support themselves.
