What Was the Cold War?
During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union fought together as allies against the Axis powers. However, the relationship between the two nations wasn't very strong and very tense. Americans had always been skeptical about Joseph Stalin and his communism acts. When World War II ended the Soviets took hold of a lot of European land. This scared the Americans because we thought they wanted to control the world. The Cold war is dated from 1945 to 1991. The Cold War is defined as a state of political tension and military rivalry between nations that stops short of full-scale war, especially that which existed between the United States and Soviet Union following World War II. There are technically three types of war. One type is Hot war. This is when armies are one on one fighting each other because talking and trying to fix things didn't work. Another type is Warm war. This is where talks are still going on and there would always be a chance of a peace. However armies are being fully mobilised and war plans are being used and ready for a Hot war to begin. The last is Cold war. This is where there isn't much fighting going on between the two counties themselves. They are trying to talk it out and the United States and the Soviet Union are trying not to come into fighting conflict. During the cold war many different things happened. For example the Cuban Missile crisis, the Yalta Conference, and the Truman Doctrine. The Cold war was between the Soviet Union and the United States. However, the Soviets and the United States never fought directly with each other. They would use other countries to go behind and use them to fight for them. It would be like two girls who are fighting. The girls usually don't fight face to face. They use other friends to go behind the other friends back. It become who is on who side. This was kind of what the cold war was like. The United States wanted to stop the spread of communism. They used the containment policy and different economic policies to help countries out and maybe prevent communism from spreading even farther than it already has. John F. Kennedy said, “Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner.” The Cold War was a very long war and no single party was entirely to blame for the Cold War. Some historians say that the Cold War was inevitable.