Cold War
For many years in the early 20th century, two world powers with very different forms of government and economy bred contempt and suspicion toward each other's policies. These opposing forces were the United States of America and the Soviet Union. The United States was a capitalist country, believing in political freedom and democracy. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was ruled by communism, in which the needs of the individual were subordinated to those of the society as a whole (Heater, 1989: 5). During this conflict called the Cold War, three United States Presidents rose up as leaders and had a profound impact each on the outcome of this period of hostility. The first of these leaders was President Harry S. Truman. Born in 1884, he served as a judge and senator before becoming Franklin D. Roosevelt's Vice President in 1945. He became the 33rd president of the United States just 11 weeks later, due to the death of Roosevelt (Heater, 1989: 55). President Truman was more suspicious of the Soviet Union than Roosevelt had been. He worried a great deal about the danger of Soviet expansion and the spread of communism, which ultimately led to the Truman Doctrine. After World War II, Europe suffered a
photographs, but knew that if the United States destroyed these missile bases, a began to build longer-range offensive bases in cuba from which rocket-powered well (Garraty, 1994: 986). Thus Truman proclaimed the Truman Doctrine, which 1962, a United States U-2 plane took photographs of western Cuba which revealed Despite the peril and failure of the Bay of Pigs, President John F. Kennedy peace" plan when the Soviet Union proposed that all nuclear weapons be discarded
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