Do you agree that the origins of the Cold War lie in the pol

Nevertheless, although the vast majority of the historical facts are now known and have been studied carefully, it is still hard to decide what should be considered the exact beginning of the Cold War and what were the most significant reasons for its emerging? The most popular view on the origins of the Cold War would be considered to lay in the policies o

Considering the American position, the war itself has upset the balance of power in Europe and Asia, has eliminated the protection of oceans and distance by advances in air transportations and weaponry. That meant that the US could not return to its pre-war isolationism.

However, the main issue at Potsdam was who would control Europe. The major concern was about Poland. Historically, Poland had always been the key state needed from which to launch an attack against Russia.

Given the experience of World War II, the division of Europe was perhaps inevitable. Both sides wanted their values and economic and political systems to prevail in areas which their soldiers had helped to liberate. If both sides had accepted these new spheres of influence, a Cold War might never have occurred. But the nations of Western Europe and the US still had Hitler on their minds and they soon began to see Stalin as a similar threat.

Shortly afterwards the first troops of the Allied Expeditionary Force leave for Murmansk and Arhangelsk to help the White Army, which was supporting the Tsar, in the civil war against the Bolsheviks, hoping, in Winston Churchill’s phrase, to “strangle Bolshevism in the cradle”. By the end of the year there were nearly 200.000 troops there from the USA, Britain, France and Japan. This occupation was in many ways responsible for much of the Soviet paranoia towards the West. An angry Khrushchev said in Los Angeles in 1959: “Never have any of our soldiers been on American soil, but your soldiers were on Russian soil.” In my opinion such an invasion in what the Russians would see as “home affairs” could give a birth to a major mistrust and even hostility between the two states.

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