Summary Cold war
After World War II, a state of political tension occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union that used no weapons. The U.S. who controlled Western Europe and Soviet Union who controlled Eastern Europe had opposing political as well as economic policies that caused their alliance to slowly deteriorate. While the U.S. encouraged democracy and wanted Germany to reunite and be stabilized, the Soviet Union on the contrary favored communism and wanted to keep Germany divided in order to protect soviet borders. When conditions started to get worse, the U.S. tried stopping the spread of communism using the policy called containment.
Essential Question: What were the root causes of the cold war after World War II? Soviets and the U.S. clashed over Germany and had differing goals for each of their countries. Each had opinions toward politics that differentiated considerably. The Soviet Union believed in communism, but the U.S. encouraged democracy. With Germany, The U.S. wanted to rebuild Germany and keep it together but the soviets again wanted to divide it up. Germany was then split into two sections, the east and the west. Winston Churchill described the division as an iron curtain that represented the separation of democratic and communist Europe in his"Iron Curtain" speech in 1946. These animosities of competing political philosophies that ultimately led to the Cold War.
After World War II, a state of political tension occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union that used no weapons. The U.S. who controlled Western Europe and Soviet Union who controlled Eastern Europe had opposing political as well as economic policies that caused their alliance to slowly deteriorate. While the U.S. encouraged democracy and wanted Germany to reunite and be stabilized, the Soviet Union on the contrary favored communism and wanted to keep Germany divided in order to protect soviet borders. When conditions started to get worse, the U.S. tried stopping the spread of communism using the policy called containment.
Essential Question: What were the root causes of the cold war after World War II? Soviets and the U.S. clashed over Germany and had differing goals for each of their countries. Each had opinions toward politics that differentiated considerably. The Soviet Union believed in communism, but the U.S. encouraged democracy. With Germany, The U.S. wanted to rebuild Germany and keep it together but the soviets again wanted to divide it up. Germany was then split into two sections, the east and the west. Winston Churchill described the division as an iron curtain that represented the separation of democratic and communist Europe in his"Iron Curtain" speech in 1946. These animosities of competing political philosophies that ultimately led to the Cold War.