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Question

Can someone please give me some ideas for this essay I have to write? The topic is: Explain how the situation in Europe immediately following the fall of Germany led directly to the Cold War. In your opinion, should the Western Allies have acted to oppose Soviet domination of Eastern Europe?

Answer 1

Immediately following the all of Germany the United States was concerned with defeating Japan. To that end Truman met with Stalin at Potsdam and in exchange for the promise of Soviet help in defeating Japan the United States agreed to allow the Soviets to be in charge of the rebuilding of Eastern Europe. Ultimately the atomic bomb brought about the surrender of the Japanese without Soviet involvement. Nonetheless their domination of Eastern Europe continued and they began to build a strong defensive perimeter around their nation. The United States under the Marshall plan began to pour millions of dollars into the rebuilding of Western Europe and took upon itself the task of protecting Western Europe from Soviet domination. Two significant events happened very soon thereafter. One was the attempted Soviet takeover in Greece which the United States helped to thwart the other was the closing of the roads to Berlin (it was a jointly held city between the Western Allies and the Soviets behind the line of Soviet dominated Germany -East Germany) The U.S. immediately began what was known as the Berlin Airlift and used C47 cargo planes to fly into Berlin every necessity of life from coat to toothpaste. After that suspicion and fears on both sides began to mount and the Cold War was on for good. The famed Atomic spy case of the Rosenbergs sent a chill of fear throughout the west because it hastened the Soviet development of nuclear weapons. China falling to communism in 1948 also added to these fears because now both the largest nation in the world in area (Soviet Union) and the largest in population (China) were under communist leadership.
For the United States to act directly to oppose Soviet domination at that time might have been very risky. For all intents and purposes our major Allies Britain and France were spent. They had little desire or ability to wage war on anyone else. That would have meant that the United States would have to try to wage a war against the Soviets while keeping Western Europe headed in the right direction, supervising the rebuilding of Japan and worrying about Chinese aggression in Southeast Asia. I doubt if we had the resources or desire at that time to prolong the war. Without the use of nuclear weapons against the Soviets it would have been a very long and costly war.

Answer 2

Yes the Western Allies should have, but they did what they could to successfully preserve Western Civilization, and that would have caused a much larger war with the Soviet Union.

Answer 3

When Germany lost the war in 1945 Russia was afraid they would try it again. They did try twice before. So Russia thought by controling many countries around Russia they could protect Russia from getting invaded so the USSR was born. Back then Tank warfare was the way to go, now with planes that travel long distances it is not needed to have buffer countries around you.

Answer 4

Do some research on the internet- read through a number of articles and then try writing something.

Answer 5

i am not very sure but you should look something up on the internet. DONT COPY IT just reword it in your own words. thats all i can tell you. i'm sorry i cant say anything else