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At the coming end of the Second World War, there was much distrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. Throughout most of WWII, the U.S. and the Soviet Union had made an alliance. The foundation of this alliance relied on a common goal of each country: to defeat the Germans. (This was decided in1943 at the Tehran Conference that consisted of Great Britain, France, the U.S., and the Soviet Union). However, once the war was over and the German nation was contained, many new conflicts between the two main victors of the war had begun to start. The common bond that had once held the two countries together was gone, and they steadily began to grow apart due to differing political views. The differing political views and the fight for the best post WWII position, between the U.S. and Soviet Union (who were the new world super powers), would later lead to what is known as the Cold War. This long lasting war will eventually lead to "indirect fighting" in Korea and Berlin, as well as many threats, distrust, and scary moments for every U.S. and Soviet citizen. One of the goals of post war United States was to create a new world order that would require the least possible U.S. international intervention. However, with
It was also decided that the capital, Berlin, was to be divided among the four, regardless of the fact that Berlin lied in the Soviet zone of Eastern Germany. they probably would have taken advantage of their position. involved into the growing European affairs. This is the same event where McCarthur directly ignored a request from the president to not invade North Korea. However, they did this with almost no help from the Soviets until the very end when Stalin had agreed to Mao's request for military and economic aid. Naturally, the Soviets, in hopes to restore the unequal balance of power that the bomb had created, set out to try and create a nuclear bomb themselves. It also showed how the war between the two countries never actually resulted in direct contact with one and other. Neither side used military forces, for both sought to keep their conflicts within political and diplomatic limits. The intimidation factor that was created by the United States possession of this bomb was very respected by the Stalin and the Soviets. The term containment essentially meant to try and contain the Soviet and communist expansion. With this new policy of containment in affect, many European countries were receiving great deals of economic aid from the U. In the beginning this plan seemed to work, however, in 1947 the British, French and the Americans all joined together to implement a new economic policy in order to reconstruct their parts of Germany.
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