In conclusion the Cold War was caused by U.S. fear of the spread of communism and other events. The United States means of control was to contain communism at all cost. Many treaties were put in place to protect the two superpowers. The Soviet Union tried to influence other nations with communism and the United States tried with democracy. This battle of the superpowers lasted for fifty years.
When Communism became something real and physical, America felt their economy was even more endangered, concerned that it would spread to them and destroy what they had. Communism and Capitalism are opposite concepts, and so the Americans greatly feared Communism, something that put, what they considered to be, an excellent society in jeopardy. A drastic change was too large for them to cope with, and was one they saw as negative, fearful it would result in the deconstruction of a stable society. There will always be an inevitable conflict when Communism and Capitalism are pitched against each other, and so the Americans felt threatened by this. The West felt threatened by Communism too because it caused Russia to pull out of the war, thus losing them a good ally.
The economic life of the country was closely organised. Religion was brought under state control because Hitler feared that churches could become source of opposition.Germany was a police state and the worst aspect of the Nazi system was Hitler's anti-Jewish policy. Hitler blamed them for all the bad in Germany, including humiliation at Versailles, depression, unemployment and communism. he deprived jews of German citizenship and banned them to marry non-Jews. Hitler started attacks on synagogues and other Jewish properties throughout the whole country.
China falling to communism caused great fear to spread across America as they worried Japan would be next in line to adopt the communist ideology. Due to the defeat of the US-backed regime in China under Chiang Kai-shek, the most populous nation had passed under the control of Communists, led by Mao Zedong. This event caused a wave of terror over the US as they were worried that due to the domino effect, Japan would be next to fall to communism. This would have caused the US to involve themselves in the war as Japan was under the USA’s control and was a key power to the US due to it being the main production line of US military jeeps and was of huge economic wealth. It was believed by Truman that if Japan fell to communism ideology then America would follow shortly after, which is something that brought great fear to Truman and American citizens.
I don’t think the use of propaganda was the main reason for the lack of opposition to the Nazi rule, I think they had little opposition because of terror. I think that informers were the main reason for the lack of opposition, propaganda did not play such an important role. I think that informers were the main reason for the lack of opposition to the Nazi rule because, informers were people who spied on everyone and reported back to the Gestapo if they found anyone who did not support the Nazis. Germans were afraid to talk to anyone or arrange any meetings because anyone could be on an informer. Informers were everywhere and were anyone (e.g.
The American government went out of its way to portray communists as scarier and more not the same as what Americans were. They propagandized the scary aspects of the Soviet totalitarian system. Socialist Soviet became bigger when the World War II created a strong anti-communist movement that was irritated by propaganda. It made American’s fearful and stronger movement to help the United States to against communist states. Anti-communist propaganda brought America several medium including books, pamphlets, comics, films, and radio during the Cold War.
Jordin Dickerson To what extent did ideology serve as the primary catalyst to the Cold War? During WWII, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union were definitely strained. They had to join together because they had one common enemy, Nazi Germany; but after that, they began to turn on each other. The Soviets seeing the United States as a capitalist nation that turns its back on its allies where as the United States sees the Soviets as “Communist Russians” that are spreading the awful idea of communism. That one, simple word caused perhaps one of the biggest controversies and rivalries in history.
Many criticize the US Military’s bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, yet those same individuals are often civilians who have a general disliking of war and consequently are misinformed to the point of extreme partisan bias. What these certain individuals fail to realize is one critical factor: War never changes. Time-tested and as durable as Lexan plastic, war is the same in any culture, yet not always for the same means. My argument is one of circumstance and reality of the situation not numbers or delusional hysteria of options one has no way of taking themselves. In the case of Truman’s decision many people claim his choice caused the unnecessary death of thousands of Japanese civilians and the subsequent deaths of thousands more from radiation poisoning.
It has been argued even further to say it was time well worth spending in Iraq and Vietnam. When analyzing these points one must understand that at that point in time America was deathly scared of communism and instilled an idea in their heads that if not for entering the war at that moment, then communism would make its way around to other countries and finally reach America. However, our government made the fatal mistake of failing to look in the long run and see that America was already a strong nation and by entering a war that would not certainly end communism the government weakened every aspect of the economy. In accordance, Iraq was completely uninvolved in the terrorist attack on 9/11, the accusation of concealing “weapons of mass destruction” was completely false, and having now realized that the only weapons they did have were from a purchase from the United States to them several years
However it would have had a tremendous and awful impact on the United States society as it did represent the war as evil and criminal. The US Army always denied that the bombs they let off never hit civilian casualties; they stated that there was not many of them. The journalist's reports broadened, which was still furthering the credibility gap'. This is the state or condition of being dissimilar or unlike between the American military and government and what the American people had confidence in. The broader the gap is, not as much the people will believe.