The Cold war and World War II
Origins of the Cold War
According to Iuga (2015), the Cold war resulted from several arguments and disagreements between the Soviet Union and the U. S. after the Russian Revolution, which took place in 1917. Under V.I Lenin, the Soviets felt like the spearhead regarding the movement, which involved several nations intending to replace existing orders of politics in the West. In 1918, the United States troops took part in Allied intervention led by Russia to represent anti-Bolshevik forces. The political acknowledgment of the Soviet Union, whose base was America, never turned up (Eden & Bands, 2019). The United States started participating in the war in 1941 December, and the administration offered encouragement to Americans not to fear the Soviet Union.
The Two Allies in World War II
During World War II, America and Russia turned into enemies but hid their dispute intending to face the Nazi threat. In the early 1930s, Josef Stalin attempted reaching a consensus with the West since he thought Nazi Germany was the most significant threat. Joseph Stalin signed an agreement in 1939 with Hitler, although it only took two years to forget it after German invaded the Soviets. Each side believed that the other aimed at threatening its development (Kullaa, 2020). However, newspapers and magazines insisted that despite people from Russia owning an economic system that differed from that of the US, they committed values regarding democracy, peace, and stable order of the war. The cold war shifted to a level lower in late 1945, where there was resurfacing of the antagonisms. Towards the end of World War II, Eastern Europe’s future turned into a contention point between the Western Allies and the Soviet Union.
References
Edel, C., & Brands, H. (2019). The real origins of the US-China cold war. Foreign policy, 2.
Iuga, V. (2015). Cold War – Comrades [E1/24] [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIQ1QNnhE
Kullaa, R. (2020). Non-alignment and its origins in cold war Europe: Yugoslavia, Finland, and the Soviet challenge. Bloomsbury Academic.