Us Vs Soviet Union

During the Cold War, the United States sought to defend “freedom” by opposing communism and creating free markets. The United States sometimes succeeded in containing communism and providing aid in the Berlin Airlift, yet other United States actions in Iran undermined the nation’s values of democracy. A main goal for the United States was the containment of

Following the Second World War, the United States had gotten involved in the Cold War. The United States and Soviet Union had become the two superpowers, vividly proving their strengths in the most recent war. These strengths, however, caused a rivalry to form between the two, and would affect the United State’s domestic policy and American society throughout the Cold War. Communism and the threat of war were the most prominent aspects which affected the United States both economically and socially.

After the events of World War II, there was growing tension between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1946. This growing tension developed into the Cold War, which would dominate American foreign policy. Foreign policy changed within the beginning years of the Cold War, as both the US and Soviet Union wanted to assert their power without creating international conflict and devastation.

The U.S policy of containment was the U.S’s way of stopping the spread of communism. Containment played a crucial part in the Cold War and determined the outcome of many events. For example, the Korean war, the Cuban Missile Crisis and, the incident in Berlin are all keen examples of the U.S’s containment policy. These events dramatically impacted the results of the Cold War.

On March 12, 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union were at war trying to spread and contain communism, eventually starting the Cold War. Many countries were involved and some went to fight against America and some fought with America, but the Americans and the Soviets were in a race to see who would overpower each other first. The United States went through many battles to prevent the Soviet Union from spreading communism to different countries to try and prove that their actions during the Cold War made America what it stands for and prove their values. The United States sought to defend freedom by containing communism. The U.S. sometimes succeeded in containing communism and providing aid in West Berlin, yet other U.S. actions in Iran undermined the nation’s values of freedom and democracy.

By 1945, the end of World War II was soon arriving and the tension between the United States and the Soviet Union had grew stronger(Britannica). Because of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviets had created a “left-wing” government, in which politicians support social equality in contrast to social hierarchy. Americans and British had feared Soviet’s dominating all eastern European. In contrast, the Soviets wanted to maintain their control of eastern Europe to keep them safe from any threats from Germany and to spread communism worldwide. However, the main difference between the United States and the Soviet Union was how they chose to govern their states. While the United States held a democratic

Even though the United States emerged as a clear victor of World War I, many Americans after the war felt that their involvement in the conflict had been a mistake (Markus Schoof, “The American Experience During World War II,” slide 3). This belief, however, did not deter the country from engaging in many other international affairs in the future, most importantly the WWII and the Cold War. Right from the Manifest Destiny, which led to expand its empire at home and abroad, to the World War I, the country had come a long way from being somewhat a lonely-land to a global superpower of the 20th century. Its influence in the international arena grew unprecedently after its commitment to the World War II, and like they say, the rest is history. If the WWII was a resounding success to the American legacy, what followed, the Cold War, put many implications on the American diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and to the world. Although the rising Fascism in Europe and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drove the U.S. to enter the WWII, historians over the years have laid equal blames on both nations for starting the Cold War. These two events helped in shaping up many domestic and foreign policies for the U.S.

Fundamental to America's outside approach in the post-war period was the control of the Soviet Union

After, World War Two things between the Soviet Union and the Unites States of America began to change. Things between the two were fine during World War Two they helped each other; however, suddenly after World War Two they became enemies (Economic Difference between the U.S and Soviet Union). So they did not always disagree about things until after World War Two. One of the major things they did not agree about was how an economy should be run and also the government (Economic Difference between the U.S and Soviet

Gay rights has been an issue that has been controversial for decades, although it was never discussed until now. Society has changed over the last years, in fact it has changed so much in the past 20 years; with that said race, drugs, and sexuality are still the main factors in modern times. Not only does this subject affect America, but also other countries, they are just silent about it. We really don’t hear about any misconduct toward gays in other countries, besides Russia. The gays want their rights in America and Russia, they are speaking out and they will be heard. LBGT, Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, are not only fighting for their rights and equality, but to ban discrimination all around the world. Russia is more anti-gay and more extreme than America, they’d let extremist take advantage of homosexuals. Since Russia’s government strongly implements that being gay is wrong and will do anything to keep that mindset. America on the other hand is more towards equality for the LBGT, they’ve spoken out to demand the same rights as everyone else, slowly the LBGT in Russia are setting their foot down and want the freedom to walk the down the street with their loved ones and not be targeted. Russia and America have a different way of handling gay rights, and handling them as a whole. The battle of the gays has been going on for decades.

Due to the onset of the Cold War and the early 1960s, the popular and political climate in the United States changed. The relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States was directed by ideological, political and technological factors. The rivalry between the two powers rooted from their contrasting ideological principles since the United States was a democratic republic where the people believed that every citizen had equal representation in the government and the Soviet Union was a communist nation. The US embodied the principles of a democratic nation believing in the ideals of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" as well as having an economy that was based on capitalism. In contrast to the ideology of the US, the Soviet Union fell under communist rule during the Russian Revolution of 1917, which was based on the idea that all assets should be owned by the government and then divided among the citizens of the nation. The Soviet Union took communism a step further as the many of the leaders were totalitarian during the 20th century, meaning that "all power was in the hands of the ruler". In 1946, Churchill declared the separation between the east and west by saying that an iron curtain had descended through the middle of Europe (Churchill Delivers Iron Curtain Speech 1). Even though the Soviets and the US fought together in WWII, the eastern communistic ideology had clashed with western democratic principles. Furthermore, the two powers were in a nuclear

Change upended Europe many times in the latter half of the 20th Century. After World War II, with the rise of the United States and the USSR as the world’s foremost superpowers, Europe split between East and West. NATO allied Western Europe and the United States against the rise of communism. The Warsaw Pact allied Eastern Europe militarily. This effectively split Europe into two competing camps that ensured relative peace for the following decades. In 1989, however, that changed entirely. With the borders and limits between East and West erased, Europe had to embrace a new identity. They had to create a new definition for what it meant to be “European”. The West had previously developed models and institutions that united multiple states, and communism united the East. When the two intermingled politically, economically and socially, there were going to be growing pains. The East had to integrate into Western institutions because of the fall of communism. Easterners tended to move west to find work and a new, higher standard of living. This placed a significant burden on the West as a whole. Spurred by the mass migration of people from the East to the West, the West responded by hindering Eastern states’ ability to integrate fully with “European” institutions.

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States were allies of convenience; they had dissimilar goals, but shared a common enemy (the Axis powers). The Soviet Union 's government was much closer to Germany 's than America 's in ideas and practice, and when the war ended these differences in world view between the countries became seemingly irreconcilable.

The Truman Doctrine sent US aid to Greece and Turkey, and also encouraged the American people to support the cold war. The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Plan, was to rebuild the European market, which would benefit U.S. trade, and to strengthen democratic governments in Western Europe. Under the Marshall Plan, the US spent $13 billion over 4 years. The Point Four provided aid to underdeveloped countries, and by offering scientific and technical aid; it helped to reduce famine, disease, and economic hardship of 35 Asian and African nations. Last, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, established a regional defense alliance to protect each country involved. Beside these programs, Truman also dealt with the large-scale problem of preventing North Korean Communists from taking over South Korea, and sent troops to fight in the war. The Korean War asked the whole nation to become involved in production and mobilizing troops, and the US involvement in the war proved to affect many people.

The Soviet Union was a Communist nation, which was governed by a tyrant and put the needs of the state in front of individual human rights. The USA was an entrepreneur popular government, which esteemed flexibility and dreaded Communism. It was not simply that the two belief systems were clashing - they were aggressor and expansionist. They both accepted that the option