The Cold War And The Soviet Union - 2378 Words

For the latter part of the 21st century, The United States was entangled in a battle of ideologies that almost brought the World to its first nuclear war. The United States and Russia have had unstable relations for greater part of the twentieth century and still remains present, to a degree, today. The Cold War is commonly classified as the time period following World War II in 1947 to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, in which the United States and the Soviet Union were involved in a battle of ideologies as to how states should be structured in the era after World War II. What many people do not realize is that the Soviet Union had the fullest of intentions to remain allies with the United States, as did the United States, in the†¦show more content†¦First, I am going to provide a background of the formation of the communist state of the Soviet Union, a key piece in understanding the nature behind the ideological difference. Next, a key series of events took place towa rds the end of WWII and in the years immediately following the war, such as the death of Roosevelt, military action taken in Japan and Korea, and the various manifestos of 1946. The paper will conclude with the implications of the Cold War on foreign affairs in today’s society. The USSR was formed in 1922 and the earth was introduced to its first communist operating state. In February of 1917, Russia saw crowds of angry citizens flood the streets of Petrograd in protest of the brutal losses suffered in WWI. This conflict lead to a fall of the czar autocracy that had reigned over Russia, and power was shared between the provisional government and the Petrograd Soviet. During this vulnerable state that Russia found itself in, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin launched a successful coup of the government and established the world’s first Marxist state. This significance of this event lies within the fact that this was the first time that a form of extreme socialism (Bolshev ism) had committed itself to violent revolution and seized control of a major state. This set up a nation, that in nature, had an ideology that conflicted with those of which the United States were founded upon. This Union of states that were all governed under the same