International Developments in the post World War 2 World
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  • The Cold War
    • Causes of the Cold War
    • Yalta Conference of February 1945
    • The Cold War Goals for the United States
    • The Cold War Goals for the Soviet Union
  • Importance of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall
    • Truman Doctrine and its impact upon the Cold War
    • The Marshall Plan and its impact upon the Cold War
    • The originations of both the Korean War and Vietnam
  • Tiananmen Square (1989)
    • The causes/outcome of the uprising in Hungary (1956)
    • Berlin Airlift
    • Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Organizations of the Cold War
    • NATO
    • Warsaw Pact
    • SEATO
  • Nationalism

Causes of the Cold War

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What is the cold war?

  • The Causes of the Cold War With the end of the Second World War in the year 1945, began another passive war, the cold war. A lot of factors that occurred after World War 2 now became the prime causes of the cold war. These causes have been enlisted here.                                                                     American fear of communist attack
        Truman’s dislike of Stalin
*      Russia’s fear of the American's atomic bomb
*      Russia’s dislike of capitalism
*      Russia’s actions in the Soviet zone of Germany
*      America’s refusal to share nuclear secrets
*      Russia’s expansion west into Eastern Europe + broken election promises
*       Russia’s fear of American attack
*       Russia’s need for a secure western border
*       Russia’s aim of spreading world communism


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