The Second World War had unified the United States and the former Soviet Union in the war against Nazis. The countries had for a long time lived under mistrust from each other in regards to their form of leadership. The end of the Second World War brought a war that did not require direct confrontation. The war was based on an ideological basis on capitalistic or socialistic ideologies. The American government supported the spread of capitalistic ideas to countries in places such as Africa while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics supported the spread of socialist ideas. The controls provided funds in the form of grants and loans to those countries that looked gullible. The cold war was marked by widespread nuclear tests in the modern world. Countries such as Germany were divided into two blocs during the cold war. The division of Germany was characterized by the building of a wall to divide Berlin. Countries such as Afghanistan experienced the effects of the cold war. The cold war had negative and positive effects on countries all over the universe.
The Baltic website gives a brief history to the beginning and end of the cold war. The website universal resource locator was http://coldwarsites.net/history and was accessed on 15th May 2013. The website details that the Soviet Union fell 20 years ago with people aged below thirty years not having wide experience of the cold war period. The website suggests that the cold war involved N.A.T.O states and Warsaw states. The site shows how the two powers divided Europe into Western and Eastern Europe. The occupation of the Eastern Germany by Soviet soldiers and Western Germany by the Ally soldiers led to its division. The website looks at how the two regions entered into arms struggles. The period saw nations such as Poland experienced multiple wars from pro socialist and pro capitalistic.
The History learning website has an article on “What was the cold war”. The universal resource locator for the website was http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/what%20was%20the%20cold%20war.htm. The website gives the definition of the cold war as the tense relationship that developed after the Second World War between the USSR and United States. The website relates that because of the cooperation between the two powers during the war people thought they would end their enmity. The website talked about how the United States referred to the USSR as the devil incarnate before the war. The wide difference that existed between the two countries before the war is attributed to the rise of the cold war. The article talks about how the two sides had a distrust during the war. The site talks about how American and the Red Army kept secrets from each other within the battlefield. The two sides did not provide details on what type of weapons they held. The Cold war in the period of 1945 to 1980 did not experience any form of direct fight between the two states. The war was fought in states such as Vietnam where the USSR supplied weapons to one group. The American supplied weapons to another group because of fear of the Soviet Union spreading its ideologies. The cold war period was characterized by wars where soldiers from both groups did not go to the battle field.
The encyclopedia talks of how different functions in the cold war went around the world trying to establish dominance. The website universal resource locator was http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/cold_war.aspx#1 and was accessed on 15th May 2013. The United States tried to spread the Truman economic doctrine while the USSR spread its doctrines under the Warsaw pact. The website points out how the United States thought the spread of the Soviet ideologies should be checked. The United States established the basis for protection purposes in Asian countries such as the Philippines. Americans during the cold war collected a lot of information about the Soviet Union. The information was the source of the Cuban missile crisis and other crisis in the world arena.
The history in focus website looks at the cold war on a basis of the rise of the Labour party within the United State. The Website Universal locator was http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/cold/reviews/davis.html and accessed on 15th May 2013. The Website shows how people from the Eastern bloc of Europe were seen to Pro Socialist while those on the Western part referred to Pro Capitalistic. The website dispute this believes by showing how some members of the labour party tried to vouch for socialism. Some labour party vouched for the Soviet Union in order to ensure peaceful coexistence between Britain and socialist states within the Eastern Europe. The website shows how some people from the western block sought business deals with the USSR although they were not pro socialist. The editor of the sites shows how people who were sympathizers of the USSR were depicted as spies by their countries. The supporters of the Soviet Union in the West saw the block as a figure representing peace in the world. The Soviet openly rejected the apartheid form of leadership within South Africa which made it famous. The sites show how the United States and USSR were paranoid on activities that each group carried. The paranoid behaviour of the two sides led to struggles and disagreement on world issues. The Soviet Union paid members of different administrations like Czech to provide information to the KGB.
The History websites give historical factual data on the tense relationship between the USSR and United States. The Website Universal locator was www.history.com/topics/cold-war and was accessed on 15th May 2013. The website rules mistrust about the Soviet Union had originated during the leadership of Joseph Stalin’s who was seen as a dictator and inhuman by the American government. The Soviet Union spread of its ideologies in the Eastern Europe generated mistrust and needs of the United States to control the spread of the socialist ideas. The website shows how the cold war was characterized by competition into space exploration by the two states. The other event that characterized the cold war was the nuclear weapon development in the period experiencing wide tests from the two sides. The cold war had taken root in the American industry where more than 500 Hollywood workers were sacked because they were regarded as pro socialist.
In conclusion, the Baltic website is a good website for the source of data about the cold war. The website gives information about major historical events that took place between the period 1940 and 1990. The website shows how the two sides treated each other with mistrust on global matters. The website looks at the war on the dimension of arms, political and power struggle between the two sides. The multidimensional analysis of the cold war removes biases that exist in other historical materials about the war.
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Baltic. History of The Cold War Period In Brief. http://coldwarsites.net/history. (Accessed 15th May 2013).
History learning site .What was the Cold War.
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John Davis. Against the Cold War. The History and Political Traditions of Pro-Sovietism in the British Labour Party, 1945–89. http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Focus/cold/reviews/davis.html-the cold war (Accessed 15th May 2013).
