COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The Axis Powers winning WWII
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The Soviet Union’s goal to spread democracy
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The Soviet Union’s goal to spread communism
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All European countries wanting to control business and property
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Detailed explanation-1: -After a long history of enemy invasions, Soviet leader Josef Stalin wanted to expand its territory and build a buffer between the Soviet Union and Europe. He also wanted control in Central and Eastern European countries that the Soviets had helped liberate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Historians have identified several causes that led to the outbreak of the Cold War, including: tensions between the two nations at the end of World War II, the ideological conflict between both the United States and the Soviet Union, the emergence of nuclear weapons, and the fear of communism in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Stalin and the Soviets wanted to expand communism into Europe and around the world; Truman, his nation, and the free world wanted to preserve freedom where it existed and spread it where it did not. World War II had merely revealed that the ideals of two former allies directly conflicted with one another.
Detailed explanation-4: -The goal of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to keep control of Eastern Europe, and to spread communism. The goal of the United States, along with Britain, was to stop the spread of communism into Western Europe and worldwide.