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The Origins of the Cold War. The Cold War had its roots in World War II, when the repeated delays in opening a second front in Europe made the Russians suspicious of the Western Allies' motives. Those concerns were heightened when the United States discontinued lend‐lease aid to the Soviet Union soon after the war ended.
Transcript. The Cold War was a conflict where the U.S. and USSR never directly fought, but supported opposing sides in proxy wars. The U.S. feared communism spreading, while the USSR aimed for security. This led to a long, indirect battle between capitalism and communism. Questions.
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Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold War. One side was led by the USA, the other by the Soviet Union - the two superpowers. The Soviet Union led ...
Mar 23, 2022 · The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved. Some say another could be starting as tensions with Russia rise. Although the U.S. and Soviet Union ...
The Cold War In the years after World War II ended, events at home and abroad seemed to many Americans to prove that the “Red menace” was real. In August 1949, for instance, the Soviet Union ...
1 day ago · NATO is a military alliance that, at its establishment in 1949, sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and eastern Europe after World War II. It was reconceived as a “cooperative-security” organization after the Cold War ended. It currently has 32 members.
The Cold War was mostly fought with words and threats rather than violent acts. The two nations at war were the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the two superpowers had worked as allies to defeat Germany during World War II, tensions grew between them after the war, resulting in a standoff over competing visions for the post-war world.
