About the Russia and The US?

Question

why did the two countries got a fight? but Lukily they didnt got into war and why did they fight?

Answer 1

During World War II, the USSR was a German ally at first. When the USSR was attacked by Germany, someone high up in the Roosevelt administration opined that we should sell weapons to both sides and they could kill each other. Stalin never forgot and never forgave.

After the war, there were two differing ideals in the two superpowers. The Soviets wanted to control the world. They made no pretense of wanting anything else. The USA wanted to let people decide their own futures. Is this just American propaganda? No.

Look at Europe after the war. Places where Russia liberated people from the Germans were all forced into the Russian sphere of influence. Free elections were not held. People who disagreed with Russia ended up dead or in exile.

Where America liberated, free elections were held. Communists were even allowed to run in these elections. That is the difference between the two ideals.

So that is the crux of the matter. One side - Russia - had an expressed goal of world domination. The other side - America - felt they had a duty as the other superpower to stop them. Hence, the conflict. One side for freedom, the other side against it.

Answer 2

During the Cold War (1947-1989/90), the U.S. and the USSR had political and technological tensions between them. At the Yalta Conference, they had disagreed on the future of Germany and Europe. The two countries were the only two superpowers of the world at that time. The political tensions they had between them was Communism vs. Capitalism. This led them into a nuclear and space arms race in the 1960s.

Answer 3

it was a kind of power strugle and america believed they should have been a democratic nation (as they think everyone should be...anyhow...) but this is how it started out...
as you may have known it is known as the "cold war"
russia and the us were allies during w.w.2. but two were even "at it" even then...after the war they had differing ideas on how to rebuild the soviet union as well as germany and the other countries in the area around the soviet union and germany. Each country used different tactics durring the cold war such as psychological, espionage, military...etc...
here are some links that may help answer any more questions you may have...

Answer 4

This is copied and pasted from someone else's question I answered several weeks ago (and another one a few weeks before that... it was chosen as best answer both times), but it pretty much answers the same question. Here it is:

There are five main points to the Cold War (the feud between the U.S. and Russia (AKA Soviet Union):

For the purpose of simplification, the Soviet Union = Russia and Allies. Allies = U.S., U.K., France, ect...

The Cold War was not actually a war in which bullets were fired or bombs were dropped. It was more of a political and economic standoff between the U.S. and Soviet Union detailed below. Although the U.S. and Soviet Union never actually fought each other directly, they did so indirectly all over the world. The Soviet Union armed countries such as North Korea when they invaded South Korea, while the U.S. fought the North Koreans. Although we were not actually fighting Soviet Troops, we fought against their weapons. We did the same thing. The Soviets went to war in Afghanistan in the early 80's. The U.S. supplied their enemies in Afghanistan. These are only two examples of what happened repeatedly throughout the Cold War. Your five main points are outlined below.

1. The Cold War was a conflict in which the Soviet Union and United States competed for global hegemony. During World War II the Soviet Union and United States were allied against Nazi Germany (not because we liked each other, but because we both saw Hitler as the bigger threat). Following WWII Germany as we know it today was split in to East and West Germany. The Soviet Union occupied and controlled everything east of and including East Germany. Everything west of and including West Germany remained allied with the United States and remained free. Arguments over what Europe would look like after WWII was a large part of what the Cold War was about. The allies wanted a unified economically strong Germany as a trading partner. The Soviets wanted Germany to be fragmented and weak. If Germany became strong again, they might invade Russia again.

2. The Soviet Union transformed the countries in eastern Europe in to what are called "Satellite States." The Soviets had been invaded by western Europe numerous times in the past (Napoleon, WW1, WW2) and wanted to protect their borders. The Satellite States acted as a buffer zone. If someone decided they wanted to invade the Soviet Union, they would have to go through the Satellite states first, absorbing most of the attack and damage. In addition to the creation of Satellite States, the Soviets tried to export communism to other regions of the world. The U.S. obviously did not want communism to spread, because the U.S. was very anti-communist. Not only did communism not contain representative government, which was what we have always believed in, but it also took away basic freedoms of the people. The Soviets believed that communism would spread all over the world, therefore they supplied and aided communist revolutions, namely in Korea, China, Cuba, ect...

3. The United States wanted to contain communism. We did not want it to spread outside the Soviet Union. We provided economic aid in the form of the Marshall Plan to western Europe to keep their economies strong, and communism unattractive. In addition, we supplied Greece and Turkey against communist insurgents. We pledged to always help countries remain free of communism, no matter where they were in the world. This became known as the Truman Doctrine, otherwise known as containment. Containment meaning we wanted to "contain" communism and keep it from spreading. The Korean War is a good example of containment in action. When North Korea invaded South Korea, we aided South Korea in an effort to keep it free. We also had this theory known as "the domino theory." The domino theory stated that if one country fell to communism, one by one, other countries in the region would as well.

4. The U.S. wanted to keep the world free, so it would have markets for trade. (Make money). The Soviets wanted to export communism all over the world. This basic disagreement is the very essence of the Cold War.

5. The Arms Race. We got our first nuclear weapons in 1945. We had a Nuclear Monopoly and no one else dared stand up to the U.S. The Soviets got their Nukes in 1949. All of the sudden the U.S. and the Soviets had the ability to destroy each other. This idea became known as M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction). If one country launched it's nukes at the other, the other would launch it's own nukes back. Both countries would be destroyed, so starting a nuclear war would be pointless because both countries would be destroyed. This is probably why nuclear war never occured (although it almost did several times, most notably during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the Soviets placed their own nuclear weapons in Cuba, 90 miles from the Florida coast). None the less, the U.S. and Soviets raced to build the biggest, best, and most weapons.

That's pretty much it. Hope it answered your question. I don't know of any good Cold War sites on the internet, but I would recommend www.wikipedia.org. I wouldnt trust the actual facts in it, but to get a good idea about what the Cold War is about, it could help you out. Good luck.

Answer 5

Americans couldn't accept there are other ways to do things. They always think they're right and impose thier will on others with violence and intimidation. US culture is bankrupt, they exploit each other and stab thier friends in the back for profit. Every move Rusia made in the cold war was reactionary to US aggrssion.

Answer 6

> but Lukily they didnt got into war

Wrong.

1) The US Army fought the Bolsheviks after WWI. 15,500 American soldiers (American Expeditionary Force Siberia and Polar Bear Expedition) were involved :

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Canada and the United States, along with other World War I Allied countries, conducted a military intervention into the Russian Civil War during the period of 1918 through 1920."

"Rapidly changing circumstances in the late stages of World War I caused the Allies to launch separate campaigns in North Russia and Siberia. Each of these Allied campaigns would ultimately fail to achieve their objectives and the troops were withdrawn."

"Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Intervention_in_the_Russian_Civil_War

"North Russia Campaign" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Russia_Campaign

"Siberian Intervention" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Intervention

"The American North Russia Expeditionary Force - ANREF (also called the American Expeditionary Force North Russia - AEFNR) was a contingent of about 5,000 U.S. troops who landed in Arkhangelsk, Russia and fought the Bolshevik forces in the surrounding region during the period of September 1918 through July 1919. The expedition was part of a larger foreign involvement in the Russian Civil War."

"Polar Bear Expedition" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Bear_Expedition

"The American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEF Siberia) was the involvement of U.S. troops in the Russian Civil War, during the tail end of World War I after the October Revolution, in Vladivostok, Russia, from 1918 and 1920."

"American Expeditionary Force Siberia" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force_Siberia

As Winston Churchill declared, Bolshevism had to be "strangled in its cradle".

2) All during the so-called Cold War, the USA and the USSR fought "hot" proxy wars. Wars where the two powers use whole governments, terrorist groups or other third parties as a supplement or a substitute for fighting each other directly.

"Proxy wars were common in the Cold War, because the two nuclear-armed superpowers (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States of America) did not wish to fight each other directly, since that would have run the risk of escalation to a nuclear war. Proxies were used in conflicts in Afghanistan, Angola, Korea, Vietnam, and many other states."

"Proxy war : Cold War" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_war#Cold_War

Greek Civil War, 1946-1949
Malaysian Emergency, 1948-1960
Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-Present
Korean War, 1950-1953
Cuban Revolution, 1953-1959
Vietnam War, 1957-1975
Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996
Congo Crisis, 1960-1965
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Angolan Civil War, 1974-2002
Ogaden War,1977-1978
Afghan-Soviet War, 1979-1989
Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979
Iran-Iraq war, 1980-1988
Invasion of Grenada, 1983

"List of proxy wars : Cold War" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proxy_wars#Cold_War

3) All during the Cold War the USA and the USSR played chicken with planes, ships and submarines, to test each other capabilities. Real people died, disappeared, and got wounded.

"The term brinkmanship was introduced during the Cold War by United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who advocated such a one-upmanship policy against the Soviet Union. In an article published in Life Magazine, Dulles defined the policy of brinkmanship as "the ability to get to the verge without getting into the war". His critics blamed him for damaging relations with communist states and contributing to the Cold War."

"Brinkmanship became very important in United States foreign policy during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency. The American public sought to win the Cold War and also wanted lower taxes. Brinkmanship was a cheap alternative to fighting actual wars."

"Brinkmanship" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmanship