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The Cold War

The stage was set for the Cold War. For the next fifty years, America's policy would be one of containment while the Russian objective was to expand their sphere of influence. Russia wanted to spread communism to other countries while the United States fought to prevent its spread. Each country believed they were right.
             The first real conflict of the Cold War started in the divided Berlin. The country was divided into four zones, where each superpower controlled a zone. In 1946, the west wanted to merge the British, French, and American zones. The west wanted to stimulate the German economy and united all of West Germany as one. The Soviet Union opposed this since it would give one combined zone more power than its own. When the western powers introduced a new currency into their zones, the Soviet Union responded by ordering the blockade of West Berlin's roads and railways, cutting off all travel by land into the sea. The United States did not want to relinquish West Berlin, as part of the Marshall Plan. West Germany had an economic boom and East Germany gradually rebuilt its economy under the Soviets, however, a shortage of skilled workers in West Germany lured many East Germans to flea to the west. East Germans were able to use public transportation to West Berlin and automatically receive West German citizenship.
             The Soviet Union erected the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961; therefore, separating both Berlin and Germany. Khrushchev built the wall in order to remove the Western Powers from Berlin in East Germany. He also intended to stop the emigration of East Germans to the West through West Berlin. Some Russians saw Khrushchev's solution as being weak and unsatisfactory for expelling Americans from the East. The US had intended to strengthen their positions in East Germany before the wall was built. Kennedy's reaction was that of minor protest. As a result, he was accused of being soft on communism because he didn't send any troops in to tear down the wall.


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