The Soviets had denied sharing control of the Turkish Straits as they had claimed they would not have. Truman was advised to act as the worst case scenario was that there was a Soviet desire for Global Conquest. When Great Britain announced that they were going to stop aiding Greece and
What in your opinion was the short term significance of the use of atomic weapons in 1945? (25) It would be simplistic to argue that the end of the war in the Pacific was the most important short term significance of the use of atomic bombs in 1945 against Japan. While the use of Little Boy prompted the Japanese Emperor’s ‘ordered surrender’ , and claimed the lives of thousands of Japanese civilians, it is my opinion that the bomb sparked the onset of the Cold War. As Eisenhower said ‘Before the atom bomb was used, I would have said, yes, I was sure we could keep the peace with Russia’. , highlighting that he believed without the use of atomic weapons, the Cold War was not an inevitability.
Without war, our world would be completely different. In this essay, I will decide whether it’s possible to find peace or is war inevitable. Is it possible to avoid war? Hundreds of years of war tell us that maybe it isn’t, but is that because the people are missing something or are reaching for the impossible? War is “armed battle between different nations or states or different groups of people.” So as long as there is a conflict between nations or groups, there will be war?
He has to make assumptions why all this happened, what should be done to stop Group Six from accomplishing their mission, and if the bombers will not be stopped and the bombs will be dropped what should be done to even the situation. All of these were very essential to the problem, but the first thing that President had to do is to assure Soviet Union that the created situation was just a “mechanical failure” and US did not try to provoke the war. The first decision that President made was ordering to destroy the Group Six before they enter Russian border. President tried to order the bombers to turn back and cancel the bombing of Moscow; however, General Grady did not fulfill the order. It was a hard decision to order to destroy the American bombers but President did not have any choice.
Communism’s goal was to bring down capitalism in any way possible. When Stalin came into power in 1924, the US mistrusted him even more. During this time, Germany was in the process of building itself up. Stalin was concerned that Russia would be attacked and the US was concerned watching Hitler spread his rule. Stalin and the US created a brief alliance because they were both concerned with stopping Hitler.
In 1947 Britain and France decided to join their zones together (Bizonia) and then a few months later France joined to make it (Trizonia). Stalin saw these acts as betrayals because he had not been consulted, which was agreed must happen when they were are Potsdam, so he became increasingly suspicious. On 23 June a new Currency, the Deutschmark, was introduced into Bizonia, this caused an economic crisis in the Eastern zone of Germany, in response to this on the 24 June 1948 Stalin closed all roads, canals, and railways the led from the West of Germany into the West of Berlin. This was called the Berlin Blockade. The Western people said they the USSR was trying to make them give West Berlin away by starving the population.
Kennedy asked how many American causality’s there would be if one of the Soviet Union’s missiles would go off in the United States. The response to his question was around 500,000 (found in the interview). JFK realized the damage that a nuclear war could cause. He believed that if America went to war with the Soviet Union and won, it would be a pointless victory due to all the causality’s. JFK did what he could to ease the tension between the two nations.
By the time World War 2 ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the soviet threat was a strategy called “containment“. In 1946, in his famous “Long Telegram” the diplomat George Kennan explained this policy: The Soviet Union, he wrote, was a political force committed fanatically to the belief that with the U.S. there can be no permanent modus Vivendi (agreement between parties that disagree); as a result, Americas only choice was the „long – term” patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies (History). Albert Einstein said: “so long as there are men there will be wars” (Brainy Quote). After WWII, another war started. Two countries had grown up into global forces.
Throughout this essay I will be analyzing World War 1 as a total or limited war. After deciding upon one, I will support my ideas with facts and thoughts of my own opinion. It is hard to decide whether World War 1 was actually a total or limited war as a whole because every war has different characteristics that must be taken into consideration in order to judge the final outcome. For example the countries involved, resources used, weaponry, and how many individuals were part of the war out of the whole population. Having this said, I will say that WW1 as a whole was a limited war.
Later that year in Potsdam, many open disagreements took place because Germany had lost the war so Russia had promised to fulfil, Churchill had lost the 1945 election and Roosevelt died so Truman, who replaced him was angered by the large scale reparations imposed on Germany and the setting up of a communist government in Poland. He did not trust Russia, so kept him in the dark about him having the atomic bomb in 1945 before he dropped it on Japan to get them to surrender. By America using the atomic bomb, Stalin knew that it was possible for it to be used against them. Russia was therefore tricked by America preventing the Red Army from going to Japan. This threatened Russia and warned them that America was wary of them and could act on it.