the U.S.A's role in the cold war

After World War II, the United States had effectively become the most powerful and influential country in the world both militarily and politically. During America’s rise to power, however, hostilities mounted between America and the Soviet Union, resulting in a fierce rivalry. The Cold War, which never involved direct military confrontations between the two nations, involved of the struggle to contain the spread of communism, extreme anti-communist attitudes in America, and a reemergence of the civil rights issue. During the war against Germany, America tended to neglect the military desires of the Soviet Union. Roosevelt hesitated to open a second front against the Nazis and this hesitation saved many American lives at the expense of even more Russian lives. In addition to other strategic differences, the two nations ended up racing each other to “liberate” as much of Western Europe as possible; Soviet Russia eager to expand communism and the United States committed to preventing a potential enemy from gaining a footing in international affairs.

USA

Containment is what we americans wanted. we were afraid of communism and if china turned everyone would. we were afraid that we would have to turn to communism but we wanted containment. The reason that we did not want to go to communism is because we did not want one major leader who would put american in a huge hole. what we wanted was containment because it was lettin the people make decisions and not one major leader we are democrats.

The cold war

just after World War II, the alliance between the United States, Britain and the USSR ended. A rivalry between communist and non-communist nations led to the Cold War. Germany was divided into four occupied zones controlled by Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. When the USA decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, the USSR was upset that America had secretly developed the bomb. Churchill and Truman were angry that Stalin had already signed a border treaty agreement with Poland. By 1948, Russia controlled Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. Churchill was first to refer to this as an Iron Curtain that divided Europe. In 1949, Mao Zedong's communist forces had won a victory in China and this added another front to the Cold War. The United States believed that the Soviet Union's expansion threatened the developing nations of the world.