THE COLD WAR

The cold war 1941 - 1956



The cold war 1941 - 1956

Introduction

Cold War is the term used to designate the political conflict, ideological, and military weapons that pitted the two great powers that were at the forefront of the global race after the Second World War (1939-1945). Being led by the two titanic blocks leading the world, was a clash of great extent, in space (occupations and coups in Eastern Europe, wars in China, Vietnam, etc.) And time (it was from 1945 until the dissolution of the Soviet bloc in 1991), but was never considered an open war, but rather a tension between economic powers were calculated risk policies failed to explode in a third world war (Robert, 2007, 391).

Discussion

After the end of the war, the Soviet Union cut off almost all communication between the West and between the areas controlled by in Eastern Europe. By the year 1948 were each from Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Yugoslavia, ruled by a communist government. The exchange of the East-West hostility of the United Nations, the organization was newly formed at that time. He called U.S. President Harry Truman in March 1947 the principle of helping the United States for any free country to resist the Communist attack.

In 1948, the western allies announced plans to unite the areas under their occupation in Germany and the establishment of one country, namely the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Has responded to the Soviet Union that surrounded the German city of Berlin, one-month period, allied planes were carrying food and supplies by air to Berlin, and finally allowed the Soviet Union in the end, in May 1949 to break the siege. In addition, united as well as the areas under the Soviet forces under the control of the communist government in one country, namely the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) (Bowker, 2008, 111-123).

In 1949, the Allies agreed on establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance treaty designed to protect West Germany and to prevent Soviet expansion. ? As well as the mayors of the Soviet Union, in 1949, to the establishment of the Joint Council for Economic Cooperation (Comecon). In addition, focused on the consolidation of communist states of the Organization under the leadership of the Soviet Union. In August 1949 the Soviet Union succeeded in testing the first nuclear bomb, and this increased the suspicion and mistrust between the two sides. He added the success of Mao Zedong in China and expels the forces of Chiang Kai-shek's National in the late 1949, another element in igniting the Cold War (Parrish, 2007, 805-842).

Josef Stalin

After implementing his brutal dictatorship and the USSR to launch industrialization, regardless of any social costs time, Stalin practiced an erratic foreign policy.

Since 1928 prompted a known leftist politics of "class against class," which led to a pitched battle with European social democracy, which greatly facilitated Hitler's rise to power. Some leaders of the Comintern came to celebrate the rise ...