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How the Cold War Began out of the Ashes of WWII Inherently, conflicts of national interests, which are blamed for the rise of World War II alliance between the Soviet Union and the United States, were followed by the Cold War that lasted for about 45 years. As the World War II came to an end, the Soviet Union claimed that Eastern Europe was within its domain, and more importantly, Germany was to be a non-negotiable outcome of the conflict. As a result, the Soviet Union established Soviet Alliance system in 1943 to ensure that their objectives were met. Consequently this enabled them to have military and political control over Eastern European Countries. Similarly, the United States used altruistic rhetoric to explain their war objectives. Moreover, while the United States was conceding the expected Soviet hegemony at Yalta Conference where the Cold War supposedly began, they were only in a position to extract promises concerning pluralistic governments that were allowed there. Meanwhile, the British were weakened by World War II, and as a result, Britain was not in a position to support Greek and Turkish governments financially, and, therefore, informed the US government. American concern was increased as Soviets pressured Turkey for concession. Similarly, Truman Doctrine articulated its support to the United States aid to Turkey and Greece by stating that the United States was opposed to expansion of communism in the world. Mainly, the Soviet Union regarded USs exclusive possession of nuclear weapons as a significant threat, and after the American H-bomb test, Soviets also exploded one of their own. However, this did not change the fact that America had a big numerical advantage in regard to nuclear weapons during 1950s. The two countries continued to produce more nuclear weapons together with sophisticated missiles for two decades, and they provided each side with overkill. This brought about fears that non-nuclear nations may acquire weapons for mass destruction. Therefore, treaty for Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed by 62 countries, including United States and the Soviet Union. Truman Doctrine and the Role of Containment in US Policy Generally, Truman Doctrine is an international relations policy that was brought by the United States' President Harry Truman in 1947. The policy indicated that the United States will provide support to Greece and Turkey both economically and in terms of military aid to prevent them from becoming prey of Soviet Union. Mainly, most of people consider this as the start of Cold War, and more importantly, the start of containment policy to stop Soviet expansion. Essentially, the Truman Doctrine underpinned American Cold War policy in Europe. The doctrine endured for the reason that it addressed the broader cultural insecurity in regard to modern life in a globalized world. Moreover, the doctrine also aimed at dealing with Washington concern over communisms domino effect and, at the same time, mobilized American economic power to modernize as well as stabilize unstable regions without necessarily employing direct military interventions. Similarly, people argue that Truman's speech is a part of containment. Generally, American basic policy was that of containment of Soviet Union. The containment policy was actually based on a number of principles, which include the fact that the Soviet Union was working towards spreading socialism to all areas of the world. However, Containment policy felt that the Soviet Union leadership did not have any ideological compulsion to accomplish this purpose. The containment policy was also established from the fact that five major developed countries at the time were in existence, and four of these five were capitalists nations, specifically, the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union, and, therefore, the containment would confine Soviet Union. That is, the main aim of the basic policy of the United States was to prevent the Soviet Union from expanding. However, the force that brought change to the containment policy was fear that the Soviet Union was expanding to developed countries. As a result, the Soviet Union was allowed to attempt spreading their economic, political, and social values in these regions after successful diplomatic efforts by the soviet regime. Comments of Former CIA Station Chief John Stockwell on how Americans See Their Own Role in the Cold War Stockwell, 1987 a former CIA station chief in Angola in 1976 provides a history of CIA covert operations that describe the role of Americans in the Cold War. Inherently, Stockwell claims that the United States led the way at every step in escalating the conflict. Americans were conditioned to believe that what US was saying about the Cold War was true. This made most Americans take their jobs with great enthusiasm as well as join the struggle with an aim of projecting American values as well as saving the world. However, Stockwell now believes that they were made believe in lies, and that when they thought that Cubans and Soviets were behind the fighting, in reality it was the United States. Actually, Stockwell argues that the United States always said that they were staying out of the conflict that had arisen and that they deplored the militarization of the conflict. But in reality, Americans would prepare false statements that would actually create an impression that the Soviet Union and Cuba were fighting Angola. Consequently, both Soviets and Cubans would respond to American initiatives, and this made the conflict continue. Mainly, according to this, it is clear that Stockwell totally blames the United States for enhancing Cold War, although it tried to make an impression that it was the Soviet Union and Cuba that were behind it. He claims Extensively, we manipulated and organized the overthrow of functioning constitutional democracies in other countries. We organized secret armies and directed them to fight in just about every continent in the world. Was This a Black and White, Good vs. Evil Kind of War, or Was It More Complex The war between the black and white was not a pure good versus evil kind of war. Rather it was more complex. Actually, the whites used evil means to fight good, and in the end they destroyed what was once a stable country. For instance, Roosevelt wanted to gain support of the majority of Iranians to be in a position to conduct coup and since he did not have a good entry point into the country he decided to bribe. At first he bribed members of parliament and leaders which made the Mossadegh coalition split apart, and people started to denounce him in parliament. Secondly, he bribed newspaper editors, owners, and columnists, who would tell every kind of lie in order to attack Mossadegh. Similarly, he bribed religious leaders, who mobilized people to be against Mossadegh. Actually, Roosevelt went further to bribe police units together with low-ranking military officers so that they will offer their support during the coup. In order to create an impression that the rule of law was totally disintegrated in Iran, he hired goons, who would beat pedestrians and fire guns in the streets. Consequently, this shows that the war was evil. Overthrowing the democratically elected president of Iran without any sound reason shows how the United State participated in the evil war. More on https://essaysbank.com/

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