The Cold War

The Cold War lasted nearly half a century and was the aftermath primarily of World War II and the decisions made by the “Big Three” powers of the time (The U.S., Great Britain and Russia). The Cold War was in actuality more of a war over values as opposed to a military war. The West remained determined to promote the values of capitalism and multi-partisan democracy while the East was just as convinced that only the values of a single party state, running the economy, would result in social success. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill were the three leaders responsible for devising a plan for the nations freed as a result of World War II. Roosevelt was determined the liberated states should be converted to democratic free-market economies, while Stalin felt these states should be under the control of Russia, since this marked Germany’s second attempt in two successive wars to invade the U.S.S.R. In 1945 when it became apparent World War II was at an end, these three leaders me

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tivities. Out of pressure over rising fears of the spread of Communism in the East, the U.S. also, “launched the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Western and Central Europe” along Western ideologies of course (LaFeber 1). McCarthy’s efforts had all the tender mercies of a pit-bull clinging to its prey and they resulted in the infamous blacklisting of many who were suspected of being Communists or holding Communist sympathies. During this time Alger Hiss was accused of supplying State Department documents to a suspected member of the Communist Party, Whittaker Chambers. Senator Richard Nixon, with political ambitions as intense as anyone’s, helped smear Hiss in what resulted in a conviction and prison sentence. Also during this period another dubious trial centered around Julius and Ethel Rosenberg who were accused of supplying the Russians with information concerning the construction of nuclear weaponry. Fear and public sentiment may have helped wrongly convict the Rosenbergs, both of whom were sentenced to death, a move that created a maelstrom of international outrage. While McCarthy was not always wrong, this particular case is used as an example of how justice might not have always been the priority during the “re
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