Who Escalated the Cold War during the 1917-1947American History?

Abstract

The Cold War actually began in 1917, with the triumph of the Bolshevik communist revolutionaries in Russia. In this paper, we will be discussing the reasons behind cold war and the countries that were involved in it. In addition, we will also be analyzing the role of America and USSR in the escalation of the cold war during 1917-1930.

Table of Contents

Abstractii

Introduction1

Discussion1

Escalation of Cold War2

Differences in Interests5

Conclusion6

End Notes8

Who Escalated the Cold War during the 1917-1947American History?

Introduction

The Cold War is the period of tension and ideological and political confrontations between the two superpowers that were the U.S. and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and their allies between 1947 and 1991, the year of the implosion of the USSR and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact.

Many conflicts since the Korean War, the Vietnam War to the war in Afghanistan, illustrated the indirect opposition between Soviets and Americans, with the participation of their respective allies. Countries of third world such as India of Nehru, the Egypt of Nasser and Yugoslavia of Tito formed for a time the non-aligned movement, proclaiming their neutrality and playing on the rivalry between the blocks to win concessions.

In this paper, we will be discussing the origins of cold war that how it started and the reasons behind it. Also, we will be discussing that how cold war was escalated and which parties were involved in its escalation.

Discussion

The term "cold" affixed oxymoron indicates that this is not a war in the usual sense, but a confrontation which prohibits direct armed confrontation between the two big winners of the Second World War; however, it is marked by the arms race, the threat nuclear (balance of terror) and technological competition in the field of space exploration. At its center part cause, part effect was the postwar division of Europe and especially of Germany, whose unification in 1989-1990 was a decisive moment in the endgame of the Cold War. However, the Cold War had been extending far beyond Europe for becoming a global competition between superpowers, as well as, communist China that involved a nuclear arms race that teetered on the verge of distressing war.

In 1917, large parts of European Russia, the Bolsheviks were under Lenin's leadership in the wake of the October Revolution to power. A number of powers including the United States tried unsuccessfully to force intervention to prevent the emergence of a regime that preached the Communist world revolution. In 1933, United States recognized the Soviet Union. In 1934, U.S. tried the geopolitically isolated Soviet Union and the European democracies to converge, but because of the negative attitude of France and Britain, it did not succeed. To ensure against any threat from the German Reich to secure and own conquest plans for Poland, the Baltic and Finland to implement policies to close the Soviet leadership in 1939 just before the Second World War, a non-aggression pact with Germany, known as the Hitler-Stalin ...