Origins Of The Cold War

ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

• AMERICAN IDEA OF CAPITALISM COLLIDED WITH COMMUNIST IDEOLOGY • DEMOCRACY VS. DICTATORSHIP

• US HELPED ANTICOMMUNIST FORCES IN THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

• US DID NOT RECOGNIZE THE SOVIET UNION UNTIL 1937

• NAZI-SOVIET NONAGGRESSION PACT

• SOVIETS RESENTED THEIR EXCLUSION FROM THE MANHATTAN PROJUECT

• WESTERN ALLIES DELAYED THE WESTERN FRONT AGAINST GERMANY

• BUILDING OF ATOMIC BOMB • ATOMIC BOMBING OF JAPAN BEFORE THE SOVIETS COULD FIGHT

• TENSIONS AROSE OVER THE POSTWAR FATE OF POLAND AND GERMANY

• GOVERNMENT AND DIVISION OF GERMANY

• BUFFER COUNTRIES OF EASTERN EUROPE BECOMING SOVIET SATILITES

• AMERICANS TRANSFERRED THEIR HATRED OF NAZIS TO THE SOVIETS

• INCREDIBLE DEFENSE BUILDUP

TERMS • COLD WAR – WAR OF WORDS BETWEEN US AND SU THAT NEVER ERUPTED INTO A DIRECT CONFLICT • IRON CURTAIN – AN IMAGINARY LINE THAT SEPARATES COMMNIST EASTERN EUROPE WITH CAPIALIST WESTERN EUROPE