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The beginning

The Cold war started right after WWII as Stalin wanted control of the free central European nations so he established very strong communist parties in these nations.  They took orders from the USSR. Meanwhile, the United States provided over $12 billion in aid for rebuilding Western European nations who agreed to open trade. Germany was split up between East and west with the Soviet union taking the west and the western nations taking the west of Germany.

The heating up

The United States began to meddle in the affairs of foreign nations where it feared communist regimes would gain control. This became known as a policy of containment. with each side trying to establish control.  in the 1950s, competition had spread to the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America, and then in 1960 in Africa. These nations went through proxy wars where both sides were either supported by the Soviet Union and the US. These two superpowers never fought each other as they both had nuclear weapons which would guarantee their destruction and no one wanted that at the time. This continued until 1980s when the USSR fought with the American supported Taliban and lost and this led to the Soviet Union suffering major economic loss.

Defeat

The Cold War finally ended in the 1990s as Eastern European nations were able to stop being communist since the Soviet Union didn't have enough money to stop them.  The USSR could no longer keep up with US military spending and many Eastern European nations didn't want communism and the Berlin wall had fell. This all led to Gorbachev (the leader of the Soviet Union) to allow different parties to become the government, and of course, the waves of anti communism thought invading the Soviet Union made communism unpopular and a different party became the government of the Soviet Union.

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1. The Soviet Union espoused communism while the United States practised capitalism.

2. 1) the threat of nuclear war, 2) competition over the allegiance (loyalty) of newly independent nations, and 3) the military and economic support of each other's enemies around the world.

3. To prevent military invasions into the Soviet Union and to have a buffer zone between them and Western/NATO
powers.

4. Containment was a policy that the United States took seriously and it was basically stopping the spread of Soviet influence on smaller countries around the world. The author uses the Korean peninsula as an example of when the United States practiced containment.

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There were various factors that contributed to the outbreak of the Cold War, notably tensions between the two countries following World War II, ideological dispute between the US and the Soviet Union, the development of nuclear weapons, and fear of communism in the US.

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I believe that throughout the different stages of the Cold War tensions just escalated and started to spread throughout the world in Europe where it was understandable since it was the place where the Second World War hit the hardest and then it spread to Asia and Africa and reached the world.

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The basic difference at the heart of the cold was the difference in way of life. According to the author:”The Cold War came down to some basic differences between the world-views of the United States and the Soviet Union. Communist societies believed in redistributing wealth (taking from the rich and giving to the poor) and promoted workers and state-run economies. These resulted in low unemployment rates but sometimes led to the unequal distribution of consumer goods. They also viewed organized religion as dangerous. The US capitalist system let free markets determine the production and distribution of goods, and promoted freedom of religion. This led to more productivity but often created massive economic inequalities.”

The author identifies the three main differences of the Cold War as:”1) the threat of nuclear war, 2) competition over the allegiance (loyalty) of newly independent nations, and 3) the military and economic support of each other's enemies around the world.”

According the author the USSR kept in expanding their influence because:”they increased their military capabilities, tried to expand their global influence, and undermined the other's way of life in the eyes of the world.” The basically did it to undermine the US

From my understanding from the read this quote led me to believe that they used propaganda as a form of containment:”Both sides also used propaganda to paint a negative picture of their enemies.”

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there were several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War which were tensions between the two nations at the end of World War 2 the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union communism in the United States and capitalism in the soviet union.

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3. Stalin wanted to expand his eastern infulance because he wanted to increase she the ammount of soviet states such as czechoslovakia

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Following World War II, the Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.

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A number of factors have contributed to the onset of the Cold War, including the post World War II tensions, the ideological rivalry between the US and the USSR, the development of nuclear weapons, and the widespread dread of communism in the US.

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The Cold War was a post-World War II political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, as well as their respective allies.

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Question : (3)
Following a lengthy history of hostile invasions, Soviet leader Josef Stalin sought to extend the Soviet Union's territory and create a buffer between it and Europe. He also desired influence over nations in Central and Eastern Europe that the Soviets had helped free.

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1.During the Cold War, the United States was based upon capitalism and democracy while the Soviet Union was based upon communism and dictatorship.

2. the threat of nuclear war, 2) competition over the allegiance (loyalty) of newly independent nations, and 3) the military and economic support of each other's enemies around the world.

3. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin wanted a buffer zone of friendly Communist countries to protect the USSR from further attack in the future.

4.The strategy of "containment" is best known as a Cold War foreign policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II.

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1. The Cold War was a conflict that was all about methods of production and distribution that divided communities across the world along with communist and capitalist lines. How would you describe the Cold War through each course frame?

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the cold war was an open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons.

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1. According to the author, what was the basic difference at the heart of the Cold War conflict?

2. What does this author identify as the three main features of the Cold War?

3. Why did Stalin want to expand Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?

4. What was the policy of containment and what conflicts does the author use as an example of this policy?