Question

Based on the telegrams and what you learned in the lesson, write one to two paragraphs in which you respond to this question: Why did the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union begin?

Answer 1

The United States and the Soviet Union had very different ideologies and views of security. The Soviet Union wanted buffer states to protect its borders and hoped to spread communism to other countries to assist in that aim. The United States wanted to protect and defend democracy and, according to the Truman Doctrine, adopted a policy of containment. Both countries mistrusted each other, and each suspected that the other was trying to take over the world. This affected their relations with each other and their relationships with other nations.

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Answer 2

I believe the Cold War between US and Soviet Union began after World war II. Both countries have a mutual distrust of each other primarily due to a couple of reasons. The Soviet Union leader's Stalin at the time had a tyrannical and communism tendencies in ruling Soviet Union and his post war communism expansion efforts in Eastern Europe made the US feared the Soviet Union had intention to control the part of Eastern Europe. It became foreign policy for US to contain Soviet Union communism expansion tendencies. The Cold War resulted to both countries competitiveness on arms race and space race.