US, USSR, instead of causing regional conflicts were reluctantly drawn into them, cold war 1950-1980, explain.

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Answer 1

Well if that's the question you have to answer it could be fun, but scant evidence to support it. If it said 'discuss', you could discuss it, 'explain' seems to me a bit doctrinal for a history lesson but here goes.

It pretty much kicks off with the Truman Doctrine, originally a response to the civil war in Greece, the tenet is popularly that the United States would stand up for freedo against the sinister hand of soviet led international communism.

It also guided the Truman adminstration into the Marshall Plan and ultimately into the may regional conflicts of the cold war, starting with Korea in 1950.

The problem with the Truman doctrine was that it was created by a President who had inherited a world shaped by three sophisticated and able politicians, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin. Truman was a much simpler man and wan't able to see the world as a complex beast in the way that Roosevelt did.

He increasingly surrounded himself with men who offered simple answers, and thus the cold war was borne of an understanding of the post war world as a bi-polar one.

The greek civil war had been going on under occupation for years and exploded at the end of world war 2. The US decided to see this as Soviet encroachment on the west's sphere of influence, to expand it's power to the whole of tha blakans, but it was actually a regional conflict with much deeper complexity.

This was the template that would characterise the cold war. In fairness Korea was a bit more clear cut, the Soviets armed the North Koreans and encouraged them to take over the south, the West responded by defeating the invasion and China got involved, not to push communism but to stamp its authority as a regional power.

Vietnam was a genuine national struggle which never fit neat theories, but was always viewed by the US through the lens of the international communist conspiracy, eventually coming up with the utterly pointless 'domino theory'.

Reluctance was never the byword for involvement of the superpowers in regional conflict, though resignation may better characterise it. Each power saw the hand of the other in regional events and would get involved because the other one was.

For the Soviet's part Afghanistan was an attempt to secure further the creation of buffer states by installing friendly governments. As the state began to crumble under an effective insurgency (trained and funed by the CIA) the Red Army was forced to come in and prop up the goevernment. That's exactly the same blueprint in reverse as Vietnam where South Vietnam was going to fall to a chinese and soviet trained and funded insurgency, and direct military involvement became the only way to prop up a client state.

Find yourself a couple more examples (nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Angola etc etc) and you'll usually see that needing to be seen as strong, and fearing the hand of the rival dragged the super powers into involvement, but it was usually on the advice of the hawks who were more than happy to flex their military muscle.

Answer 2

properly there's a superb style of motives however the main considerable o es are.a million. Communism (u.s.) had to create a international revolution with them in cost this meant destroying the capitalistic countries( i think of they knew that for communism to stay to tell the story the capitalistic gadget had to be destroyed because of the fact it may desire to out produce the communists contained in the long term which might recommend a extra powerful economic gadget for the capitalists which might recommend extra money for conflict). considering the fact that they could no longer win by employing offering a extra powerful way of existence they had to apply stress. This bring about the hands race. 2. additionally because of the fact the U.S. exchange into serounded by employing capitalistic international places they felt threatened. the situation did no longer strengthen whilst united states of america of united statesa. began construction protection stress bases around u.s.. 3. family have been additionally threatened because of the fact the western countries ( France united kingdom and united states of america of united statesa.) deliver troops to combat against the communist contained in the Russian revolution alongside with givin g aspects to the contest( the whites). 4. The western international places additionally had to be the leaders of the international( especially the U. S.) for that reason they observed communism as a gamble to them. those are the somewhat some the clarification why the chilly conflict began. Now the reason of them to be allies is by technique of the fact they knew that Nazi Germany exchange into to good for one factor to triumph over on this is very own so they positioned there alterations aside to combat the person-friendly enemy.

Answer 3

Classic issues:

Korea and Vietnam, both divided and both in conflict between communism and capitalism ... and the USSR and the USA were dragged into them both.