Integration And Globalization

The curtain represents the divide itself and iron signifies the curtain as impenetrable. Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech was significant because it declared the beginning of the Cold War and called for better relations between the United States and Britain. First, Churchill emphasized his criticism of the Soviet Union’s

This source is very useful to a historian, it explains the Soviet response to the Marshall Plan, and they believed it was a clear example of American economic imperialism. They believed the Americans were trying to undermine the Soviet sphere of influence in Europe by taking over countries and making them dependant on the US dollar so that they could not turn to communism, if they did they would face the risk of having their aid stopped. From my own knowledge, I know that one condition of receiving the aid was that countries would have to share their economic information with the USA. The soviets believed that the Marshall Plan was an attempt to place countries under their economic and political control, as demonstrated by the fact they had to share economic information. The plan was perceived as having ideological reasons and the USA were trying to control countries by making them reliant on the dollar and through fear of this money being taken away if they turned to Communism, undermining and posing a clear threat to Soviet influence in eastern

The Containment Policy was created by George Kennan in 1947 and was the United States’ main method of fighting against the Soviet Union during the Cold War (https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/kennan). Because the Americans were very against the idea of communism, the containment policy was needed to help stop the spread of communism growing into other countries. The United States wanted more allies, and so provided resources to multiple countries to stop them from falling to communism gained their trust. The containment policy largely contributed to the Cold War because it formed the Marshall Plan, which helped to shape the NATO and the Truman Doctrine made the war more stressful.

Molotov, reaffirmed, that if a second front was not opened, then the likelihood that Hitler would be able to over the throw Soviet Union was very likely. With the delay in opening the second front, this nurtured suspicion to the Soviets that the United States and Great Britain wanted to see Germany and Russian fight it out.

Although the war, caused by tension, after World War 2 is called the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union were heated with one another. The United States and the USSR had tension because of the USSR’s communist tendencies. The term “Cold War” comes from author George Orwell because there were no actual physical encounters between the two. This tension led to the creation of the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine was George Kennan’s idea to contain communism by using force and changing political and geographical areas.

It is said that the conflict between these two superpowers stemmed from how the recovery after WWII should proceed, as both countries had very different ideas in mind. The United States, for example, believed that the world should adopt a policy of democratic relations, in which all countries worked together to insure self-determination between countries. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, believed

However, Truman and Eisenhower made it evident that the United States was fighting for innocent civilians worldwide, but they could not promise a steady government or country while the tension exists with Russia, but the nation is doing what they must(Document C). Therefore, the Cold War spread fear which led to the United States being negatively impacted in domestic and foreign

The Red Scare began after World War 2 had ended. The threat of a Cold War with the Soviet Union was looming over the United States. To ensure that the United States would have support in this Cold War, the Truman Administration took a strongly anti-communist stance on the home

His case studies of Germany, France, and Russia, allows for one to clearly see the trend of the continental powers of Europe adopting offensive doctrines. Most importantly, his explanation of the social and bureaucratic roots of the “Cult of the Offensive” clearly demonstrates the drift of the case studies coming to believe that preemptive war was the only option left. Finally, Snyder’s correlation of the “Cult of the Offensive” that enveloped pre-WW1 Europe with Soviet military policy in 1984, shows the practical applications of his theory to be used as a tool in identifying worrying trends in international relations. In a modern context, one could take North Korea as a case study, and see if the roots of the “Cult of the Offensive” that Snyder identified as evidence for his thesis have taken hold of the state. Therefore, his explanation of the root causes of the “Cult of Offensive” and the unstable system it created, shows how it was a contributing cause to World War

The cold war characterized in many aspects. Here I conclude it with several key words. Firstly, political conflicts and military tension between US ans USSR. Secondly, the Marshall plan which was seen by Russia as USA using economic aid to buy itself an empire or 'sphere of influence '. Also, Nuclear fear also was the characteristic of cold war, everyone at that time was fear of the nuclear war that was seemed to happen, especially at the time of Cuba missile crisis.