The Cold War
From 1945 – 1990, the United States was involved in a war with The Soviet Union. This war was called the Cold War. Historians do not agree on when the war actually started but they do agree that it was sometime around the end of WWII in 1945. During the Cold War intense rivalry existed between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations. The Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist group and the United States was the leader of the non-Communist group. Mutual distrust, suspicion, and misunderstandings practically describe the Cold War.Toward the end of World War Two, Germany continued to fall, so the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union met in the Soviet city of Yalta. This meeting was called the Yalta Conference. At this conference, the three nations planned to discuss their objectives on what to do with the German territories. Some of their goals included promoting world peace, providing emergency relief, and helping set up a temporary government based on the will of the people. Both Stalin (the leader of the Soviet Union at that time) and Roosevelt (leader of the United States) had different views on achieving those goals. While at the Yalta Conference, the three nations; United States
The end of the Soviet Communist party marks the end of the Cold War. If the Soviet Union had not lost control of its government, it more that likely would have led to a third world war. If that would have happened, who knows what the world would be like today. During the 1970’s, several communist and several democratic countries developed friendlier relations with one another. This caused the tension between the two blocs to ease a bit. Shortly after this ease the tension increased once again but not for long. During the 1980’s, the Soviet Union started to distribute its power away from its central authority to its regional authority. This economic system allowed more democracy. Consequently communist rule started to come to an end in many European countries, and after a while, the Soviet Communist party lost control of the Soviet Government. This difference in political systems caused much of the world to separate into two groups, one group supported a democratic system and the other side supported a communist system. The two groups were called blocs, the western bloc and the eastern bloc. The leader of the western bloc was the United States and by the 1950’s this bloc included Canada, France, Great Britain, West Germany, the Philippines and many countries in Western Europe and in Latin
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