cold war
The Cold War was in not really a war. There was no major fighting, but rather a conflict between the East and the West. After the Second World War, the world was divided between the Communists and the non-Communists, the East and the West. The East consisted of the Soviet Union, its smaller countries. The West consisted of the United States and its Western European Allies. Although no full-scale war broke out, it seemed like the East and West were on the edge of World War III. Both sides preserved their armed forces and developed large arsenals of nuclear weapons. World War II had a particularly heavy blow on the Soviet Union, and when it was all over, conflicting ideas of political and economic groups accumulated strength. As time went on after the end of the war, the gaps between the East and the West grew increasingly wider. This separation, and the tension that it created, led to the Cold War. At the end of World War II it was the United States who lead the world in atomic weapons technology. It was proposed that the atomic production eventually become international, however the Soviet Union was apprehensive and refused to accept the conditions for internationalization. No agreement was ever
In 1949, the countries of Western Europe (WEU), now joined by the United States and six other countries signed the North Atlantic Treaty, forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Washington also authorized a program to develop a hydrogen or fusion bomb, which would begin the new age of nuclear weapons In my view the Soviet Union, and especially Stalin was to blame for the outbreak of the Cold War. Stalin believed that the West was trying to deceive him, and that they were out to get him. Many of the actions that Stalin took after the war caused the non-Communists to take action against him. One thing that led to the Cold War was the fact that all international agreements made by Stalin to share power in the years following the war were charades. Stalin believed that the Allies betrayed him by waiting to open a "second front," but they had good reason not to. If he hadn't stopped cooperation between the Soviets and the non-Communists, then more fair agreements might have been reached. The formation of the Marshal Plan seemed to be aimed against the Soviet Union and more directly at stopping or limiting the spread of Communism. The plan helped greatly in helping to stop the spread of Communism throughout Europe. When the Soviet Union successfully tested their first atomic bomb, the United States finally had a reason to be scared. As a reaction to this, and the growing Soviet military threat, NATO was formed. This was a good treaty, because it meant that the United States was not
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