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The cold war had several causes to start it. The soviet union sought to gain a lot of power and this caused them to try to invade other countries. Because of this, Russia naturally sought the destruction of the United States and its allies. The Russians would also invade countries and then force their communist ideals onto them. Russia was seeking power and trying to gain it fast and the United States did not want this to happen. The U.S. was defending the countries in Europe that were being attacked and forced into being a part of the USSR.

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Soviet Union -
National Security: Safeguarding the communist rule was goal number one for the USSR, whether it be through internal control of other nations and maintaining a strong military force.
Influence over Eastern Europe: The USSR had many countries that now are free from Soviet rule, but at the time, spreading the Soviet agenda and controlling weaker nations helped to grow the USSR's influence and sense of strength.
United States -
Containment: The US saw communism as the ultimate threat to the American dream capitalist society, so their main plan and idea during the Cold war was to stop the spread of Communism, and keep the USSR as small as possible.

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Woodrow Wilson President in USA

Vladmir Lenin Leader in Russia

Russian Revolution:  the peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries called the Bolsheviks. The new communist government created the country of the Soviet Union.

Russia exited World War I by signing a peace treaty with Germany called the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

U.S. Enters World War I

The entry of America into World War One, the result of Germany's use of unrestricted submarine warfare.

Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrew the regime of Czar Nicholas II in 1917

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Calvin Coolidge President in USA

Joseph Stalin Leader in Russia

the Soviet Union occupied the island of Urtatagai, which was considered Afghan territory at the time, due to the island being used as a base to start border raids

The civil war between the Bolsheviks (Reds) and the anti-Bolsheviks (Whites) ravaged Russia until 1920.

The United States actually did invade and occupy Russia during the end of World War I.

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In 1918 Woodrow Wilson committed to an Allied intervention in a reeling Russia and stumbled into a brewing Cold War

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Herbert Hoover President in USA

Joseph Stalin Leader in Russia

Stalin intensified his war on organized religion

Stalin-ordered the Comintern to form a popular front with leftist and centrist parties against the forces of Fascism

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler between 1939 and 1941 until Germany repudiated their agreement and invaded Russia.

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The 1930s were one of the worst decades, with the recovery from the great depression, poverty, and the rise of fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt President in USA

Joseph Stalin Leader in Russia

Harry S. Truman president in the USA

Soviet alliance of 1941–1945

Nazi invasion in 1941. In 1942

Stalin's invasion was postponed until 1943, he exploded the following year when the invasion was postponed again until May of 1944.

Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed in a commencement address at Harvard University on June 5, 1947

The second major U.S. initiative of this period was the Marshall Plan, which Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed in a commencement address at Harvard University on June 5, 1947. The plan called for $13 billion in economic aid to rebuild the nations of Western Europe.

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Harry S. Truman president in the USA

Joseph Stalin leader in russia

The year 1949 proved particularly eventful in the Cold War.

1953:

Dwight D. Eisenhower USA president

The new American president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, ended the war in 1953

In 1953, Stalin died.

In 1955, he had formed the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance with Eastern European nations intended to counter NATO

In 1957, the Soviets launched the satellite Sputnik, provoking fears of lagging scientific achievement in the United States and a feeling that America was losing the space race.

Indochina War in 1954

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Stalin's death led to a temporary thaw in Cold War tensions.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower USA president

Nikita Khrushchev Leader in russia

In 1961, Khrushchev pressured the East German government into building the Berlin Wall, which separated the two halves of the divided city and prevented East Germans from escaping to the West. An escalating arms race further heightened tensions.

Cuban Revolution in 1959

1965:

Lyndon B. Johnson president in USA

Nikita Khrushchev leader in Russia

1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson was beginning to commit ever larger numbers of combat troops

American public, provoking large protests on the home front by 1967 that reached phenomenal proportions by 1968.

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The presidency of John F. Kennedy, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis and increasing American military involvement in Vietnam.

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Richard Nixon president in USA

Leonid Brezhnev russia leader

The 1970s was an era of relative calm in the Cold War, as American leaders pursued a policy of détente

In early 1972, Nixon visited China in a bid to normalize relations with that nation's communist government

The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (1972) placed limits on the number of nuclear warheads and weapons systems that each country could maintain, thus reining in somewhat the costly arms race that had characterized Soviet-American relations since the invention of the atomic bomb.

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October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.

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Jimmy Carter US president

Mikhail Gorbachev russia leader

Despite a second treaty signed by Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II (1979), the end of the decade brought renewed tensions.

1980, Ronald Reagan pledged to stand firm against what he termed "the evil empire" of the Soviet Union.

Ronald Reagan USA president

Mikhail Gorbachev russia leader

the Cold War was nearing its end. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union, pledging thoroughgoing reforms of the entire communist system.

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The Cold War from 1979 to 1985 was a late phase of the Cold War marked by a sharp increase in hostility between the Soviet Union and the West.

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George H. W. Bush us president

Boris Yeltsin russia leader

Soviet withdrawal left the communist governments in Eastern Europe isolated and vulnerable, and in 1989, they began to give way to popular democratic revolutions, mostly nonviolent, such as Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution

Even East and West Germany were reunited under a liberal democratic regime in 1990.

In 1991, nationalist movements in the various regions that made up the Soviet Union pulled that empire apart and destroyed the communist system completely.

After 1991, these regions became 15 independent nations, though many were still united in a loose constitutional arrangement known as the Russian Federation.

The Cold War ended definitively in 1991.

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The Cold War came to an end when the last war of Soviet occupation ended in Afghanistan, the Berlin Wall came down in Germany

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The cold war was a long lasting war and had an impact on the world. The cold war impacted certain aspects of countries' governments and some countries' relationships to others. It shaped American foreign policy and political ideology, impacted the domestic economy and the presidency, and affected the personal lives of Americans creating a climate of expected conformity and normalcy. The Cold war also helped the West evade Communist rule; without intervention from The U.S. forces China and The Soviet Union might have conquered Europe and The U.S.. Overall, the Cold War still has a legacy with us today, and still continues to impact our everyday life.

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