Cold War
At the conclusion of the WWII Germany was divided into 4 zones of occupation controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin, the capital of Germany, was located in the Soviet controlled section of Germany. A lack of agreement and compromise with the Soviet Union concerning the unity of Germany led to the beginning of the Cold War. An American, Financier Bernard Baruch in a congressional debate first used the term Cold War in 1947. A cold war can be defined as a condition of tension and conflict short of an actual war as was the case with America and the Soviet Union. In June 1948 the three allies, France, Great Britain, and the United States, established the German Federal Republic in West Germany, which they controlled. The Soviet Union, however, opposed any government run by any western powers and took many measures to prevent this new government from staying in power. On June 24, 1948 the soviets began a blockade of all land traffic to the western zone of Berlin, hoping to starve it of supplies and perhaps breaking down. But the US, France, and Great Britain, would not back down to the Soviets and so they began to airlift
The United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union held summit meetings in 1955 and in 1959 Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev visited Camp David in the United States to discuss good will between the two nations. However, later events would lead to an even greater hostility and tensions between the United Sates and the Soviet Union and relations would worsen once again. In 1947, president Truman added to the anti-Communist feelings when he ordered a loyalty review board to conduct security checks of thousands of government employees and a few years later in 1950 Wisconsin's senator Joseph McCarthy accused regular people and government officials alike of being corrupted by communism. Many of the accused where even convicted with out any evidence what so ever and many more resigned from their positions because of fear of being convicted of crimes that they haven't committed. It seems like the whole idea behind democracy was being ignored. Under a normal democracy a person can not be convicted of a crime if there is no evidence linking it to him, but this was happening all over America out of fear and ignorance of both the government and its citizens. All
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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