COLD WAR 🇺🇸/ 🇷🇺 ☭
WWII
U.S. / UK / USSR together as axis power.
Relationship between US and USSR was tense (America concerned about communism and their leader Stalin).
POSTWAR:
Soviets expanded all over Eastern Europe.
US and USSR brushes ripened into an overwhelming sense of mutual distrust and enmity.
Stalin announced that the Cold War would be inevitable.
CONTAINMENT
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U.S. (capitalism) VS. USSR (communism)
Harry Truman / Joseph Stalin
1945-1990
Not a millitar war (any weapons or bombs used).
Strategy they thought it was the best idea to stop communism.
"long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies." - George Kennan.
USSR: procommunism governments in Bulgaria Romania and Poland
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Expose soviet pretension falseties.
Induce a retraction of criminal controls in influence.
Blocking the soviet power extension.
Promote the seems of destruction within the soviet system.