The Cold War
If you haven’t read my blog on world war 1 and 2, I recommend you read it as this is the continuation of the previous wars.
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World War 2- Link
After the horrendous events of World War 2, a new war took place.
The Cold War took place in 1945 after the surrender of The Nazis in East Germany, which was between the two powerful nations: The United States Of America and The Soviet Union(now Russia). Stalin, the dictator of The Soviet Union was given the job to hold elections in Eastern Europe and which were fair but he made it all communist. This created a wall of interference between the USSR and the west.
Stalin’s goal was to make the whole world Communist. President Truman of The USA predicted that Russia would try to take over Eastern Europe and wanted to prevent that. They silently declared war on the USSR, not just any war, The Cold War.
First of all, this wasn’t even a war, it was just two countries following the ideology on justice and scaring each other with nuclear missiles and bombs trying to win the ‘nuclear arms race’ as well as the space race. There was no fighting between the two countries. Rather they calmed down other countries who were at war.
Everyone in Europe was living in famine. Cities were reduced to rubble and they had no food to eat because of how bad The 2nd world war was. America knew where this was going, the more the Europeans would suffer they would more likely switch to communism and Stalin would win.
They sent in billions of dollars to Western Europe hoping Stalin would lose, this was an economic battle between a nation that followed communism and one that followed capitalism.
Berlin was divided into 2 parts, half under the allies controls and the other under USSR, each following their political ideology. One side being needy and the other modern. People from either side could travel to the other without being stopped. After traveling to the western side and seeing the prosperity their thought about communism being superior would gradually change.
Russia gradually made its A-bomb, it was the “RDS-1.” This was a big success for Russia as they were already beating other countries in the space race.
Infuriated, Stalin threatened Truman by telling him he would block all supplies from the east, but Truman countered by telling him he would just fly them in, that round was lost by Stalin. After a few years in 1953, he died of a stroke. After that, presidents kept changing for both sides over the years, each changing or doing something that bought a change in the society, some allowing Russians to listen to Western pop music which was trending all over the world, some that became strict about ending communism.
This war which wasn’t exactly a war came to an end on the 3rd of December 1989 with peace.
Fun Fact- In the Period of the Cold War 12 leaders were changed in total on both sides, 8 for The US and 4 for Russia.
Recommendation- You can check out the information about the presidents and leaders here- https://www.britannica.com/study/cold-war-alliances-and-leaders
Note- I do not claim the above-given website as my own and do not own it. All credit for information given there goes to the owner of the website which is Britannica and thank you Britannica for providing me with information.