The Cold War

The cold War 

Introduction

During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as collaborators against Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two countries was a stressful one. The Americans had to be cautious of Soviet communism for a long time and were concerned about the bloody, bloody sweet rule of Russian leader Joseph Stalin's own country. For its part, the Soviet Union refused to deal with a legitimate part of the international community from the US for decades as well as its delayed entry into World War II, resulting in the death of millions of Russians. After the war ended, these complaints came in the tremendous sense of mutual distrust and hostility. Post-Soviet Extensionism in Eastern Europe promoted the fear of many Americans in the Russian plan to control the world. Meanwhile, the USSR got annoyed with what the US officials considered as an interventionist approach to Bellicos retoric, weapons manufacturing and international relations. In such a hostile environment, no party was completely guilty for the Cold War; In fact, some historians believe that it was indispensable.

Cold War: Insertion

By the end of World War II, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a "prevention" strategy. In 1946, in his famous "Long Telegram", diplomat George Cannon (1904-2005) explained it to the policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, "A political power was fundamentalist for the belief that someone with America Permanent Modes can not be Vivendi [agreement between disagreeable parties] "; Consequently, America's only choice was "the persistent and cautious prevention of long-term, patient but Russian giant trends." President Harry Truman (1884-19 72) agreed. "It should be a policy of the United States," he declared before the Congress in 1947, "to support the people who oppose independent pressures ... with external pressures ..." with such thinking US foreign policy will be shaped for the next four decades.
Did you know
The term "Cold War" was first described in the 1945 essay by English author George Orwell as "You and the Atomic Bomb".

Cold War Atomic Age

The Prevention Strategy also argued for the creation of unprecedented weapons in the United States. In 1950, the report of a National Security Council, named after the NSC-68, reflects Truman's recommendation that the country uses military force to "incorporate" communist extensionism, it seems that looks like. At the end of this report, the defense spending increased fourfold.

In particular, US officials encouraged the development of nuclear weapons that ended in World War II. Thus began a deadly "arms race". In 1949, the Soviet Union tested its nuclear bomb. In response, President Truman announced that the United States would create a more devastating nuclear weapon: hydrogen bomb, or "superbomb." Stalin followed.

As a result, the Cold War parts were dangerously high. The first H-bomb test in the Navitok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, was shown to be so scary that the atomic age can be. It created a fireball of 25 square meters that evaporated an island, blew a big hole in the ocean floor and had the power to destroy half of Manhattan. Later American and Soviet tests overthrew the toxic radioactive waste in the atmosphere.

The current danger of nuclear destruction also had major impact on American domestic life. People built bomb shelters in their backyard. They practiced the practice of attack at schools and other public places. In the 1950s and 1960s a pandemic of popular films was observed which scared films with depiction of nuclear destruction and mutant creatures. In these and other ways, the Cold War was a continuous presence in Americans' everyday life.

Cold War Expands to Space

Space exploration has worked as a more dramatic field for the Cold War competition. On October 4, 1957, a Soviet R-7 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile launched Sputnik (Russian for "Traveler"), the world's first artificial satellite and the first man-made object in Earth's orbit. The launch of Sputnik was not surprising and enjoyable for most Americans. In the United States, space was seen as the front margin, which was a logical extension of the grand American tradition of discovery, and it was important to not lose too much land to the Soviet Union. Apart from this, this demonstration of the tremendous power of the R-7 missile - capable of delivering nuclear weapons, especially about the necessary US air space built-up intelligence information about Soviet military activities.

In 1958, the U.S. Launched its satellite, Explorer I designed by the US Army in the direction of rocket scientist Von Braun, and what was known as Space Race. In the same year, President Dwight Eisenhower, a national agency devoted to space exploration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), as well as several programs to take advantage of the military capability of space.