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The Cold War

The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. There were real wars, sometimes called “proxy wars” because they were fought by Soviet allies rather than the USSR itself – along with competition for influence in the Third World, and a major superpower arms race.

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 met at the historic conference in Yalta. One of the chief concerns of this conference was to decide the fact of the nations Germany had won and destroyed during the war. Poland and Yugoslavia were given their freedom without being allowed to institute any kind of Nazi or Fascist government. The division of Germany caused the main conflict during the conference. Stalin won control of East Germany, including Berlin because the logistics of the Russian military were such to ensure they could defend these territo...

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