The_Cold_War

The Cold War The Start of the Cold War The Cold War was a long drawn out conflict that began in 1947 between the Soviet Union and the United States. The struggle between the two powers had the many parts of the world in disarray. The western nations felt it necessary that the liberated states of Eastern Europe should be re-established with a democracy and a capitalist economy. They believed that these systems were more civilized and less violent than the nationalism of the preceding generations. Russia, under autocratic leader Joseph Stalin, felt that it had a right to the Eastern European nations it had occupied in World War II. After being invaded by Germany in two consecutive wars, the USSR felt it imperative that buffer states be created to protect the borders of the fatherland. With Communist regimes in place, the nations of Eastern Europe could be controlled by Russia and, by their location, protect it. Conflict between the two opposing victors of World War II was inevitable. Joseph Stalin, Winston S. Churchill and President Harry S. Truman were huge contributors to the Cold war. In the Following the discussion of Stalin’s reply to Churchill, Churchill’s Iron war, churchill, truman, stalin, cold, world, two, felt, between, speech, should, nations, doctrine, states, soviet, president, joseph, iron, eastern, during, curtain, winston, ussr, union, three, stalin’s, russia, reply, protect, peace, need, ii, ideas, harry, greeks