The tensions between the USSR and the USA originated well before the end of the Second World War. It had all begun in 1917 when the Russian Revolution took place and Soviet Communism was born. The USA alongside its allies sent troops to try and destroy the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and try to crush communism altogether. The attempt had failed, and from then on neither side trusted each other again.

The hostility and rivalry between the USA and the USSR was put on hold in 1941 where both the countries alongside Britain became allies to defeat Nazi Germany. But there still laid a great mistrust between the two allies. Towards the end of the war the allied leaders began to have meetings to discuss Germany’s future. The most important of these meetings was the Yalta conference in Crimea, in 1945. This meeting of the ‘Big Three’ (Roosevelt

On the 25th of June 1950 North Korean troops suddenly crossed the 38th parallel on a full-scaled invasion of the South. The North Korean army was extensively equipped with Soviet Weapons and tanks. The invasion by the North Koreans was very quick and swift, as within 2 months the whole of Korea except a small area around the southern port of Chusan had been occupied by the Northern army. On hearing the news from Korea the Americans reacted drastically, with Truman immediately ordering US forces in Japan, led by General MacArthur to help South Korea. Truman then put in a proposal in the United Nations Security Council to back the use of American Troops in Korea, since the soviets were boycotting the Security Council in protest against the exclusion of the People’s Republic of China, they were unable to use their veto. As a result the United Nations supported the United States and called on other countries to fight alongside the Americans in Korea. Soldiers from a number of countries including Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, France and 12 other small countries fought alongside the Americans in the war.

On the 14th of October, 1962, the Americans had realised what was happening when a U-2 spy plane, flying high above Cuba took photographs of a ballistic missile on a launching site. On hearing of the news, the American president John F. Kennedy summoned a meeting where he was giving thee possible courses of action.

2. He could launch a nuclear air strike attack again the missile sites

-USA, Churchill-Great Britain, and Stalin (USSR) where the issues of a Liberated Europe, how Germany was to be divided, The issue about Poland, and what would happen in Japan. Although the leaders were working together in post-world war 2 conditions there still laid a great mistrust between them. It is suggested that at the heart of their disagreements was the way that the countries should be run. The USSR were communist, and The Americans were Capitalists. Both these countries felt threatened from one another.

For Both the North and the South, the Korean war brought nothing but destruction, starvation and homelessness. About 4 million people were killed and the North still remained Communist while the South still had the western type system of government. The Korean war had a major impact on the cold war. First of all it reinforced the hatered the Americans felt against communism and the mistaken belief that China and the USSR wanted to take over the world led to a nuclear threat with the US building up its nuc

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