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= Before And After Effects Of Cold War =




 * Early Beginnings- ** "Who were the leading opponents in the Cold War and what were the big ideologies of the countries?"

Leading Opponents media type="custom" key="5636303" align="right" The nature of governments started to rise after WWII, the conflicting ideologies and mutual distrust soon led to the conflict known as the “Cold War.” The Cold War was tension between the United States and the Soviet Union without armed conflict.

The Cold War was about nations having different ideologies with the issue of Capitalism vs. Communism and which would serve as the stronger and better government during a political dominance battle within the War.

Ideological Difference
 * The Cold War ideology was one of global political dominance. For many years Britain had led Europe into a time of political, social, economic, and military dominance over the rest of the world. After WWII, Europe had been devastated by war and now there were two new great powers, and they were the cause of the Cold War. "USA and the USSR." This was due to the fact that the two ideologies were practically opposites of each other, allowing for suspicion and mistrust between the two sides. A capitalist economy is based on private ownership, private profit and free competition. It encourages private individuals to own businesses and make profits . A communist economy, on the other hand, is quite different. The economy is controlled by the government. A country's wealth and resources are owned by the state or government. The state controls and plans all economic activity so that everybody benefits. Thus, it can be seen how different these ideologies were and how conflict could arise from these differences. **

After the World War II, the Allies set up councils made up of foreign ministers from the Britain, France, China, the United States, and the Soviet Union to iron out of peace agreements discussed at various conferences during the war. The councils concluded peace agreements with several Axis nations in 1947.

Soviet Unions dictator Joseph Stalin had two goals to spread communism and create a zone of friendly governments. These governments were going to be worked as a defense against Germany which invaded Russia during the first World War and again in 1941.

Stalin tried to point out at wartime conferences that the United States was not consulting Soviet Union about peace terms for Italy and Japan. Both Italy and Japan were defeated and occupied by American and Britain troops.

Soviet Union wanted to determine the fate of the Eastern Europe lands that it occupied but Roosevelt and Churchill rejected Stalin’s view making him promise “free elections.” But the dictator ignored the pledge, and many communist parties started to destroy rival political parties and by 1948, pro-Soviet communist governments were in place through-out Eastern Europe.

Stalin started to show his intentions out of Europe and eventually the Greece monarchy was no longer protected by Britain. Stalin was backing communist rebels who were fighting to overturn the monarchy. Stalin was also menacing Turkey.

Eventually Truman took action and on March 12, 1947 the policy known as the Truman Doctrine was taken in action, limiting communism to the areas already under Soviet Union. This made clear that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in Europe or elsewhere in the world. Eventually Truman sent military and economic aid and advisors to Greece and Turkey so that they could withstand the communist threat.

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