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Tension between the US and USSR

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The distinct differences in political systems between the US and the USSR frequently prevented the two nations in reaching a mutual understanding on a number of key policy issues. Eventually, the countries ended into a war commonly known as the Cold War. What led to the war is the fact that USSR disliked the capitalism while the US feared to be attacked by the Communist. Events such as failure of the US to share nuclear secrets, expansion of USSR West into East Europe, the USSR’s aim of spreading the Communism ideology, among other others led to suspicion and tension between the two nations hence the cold war. Within the period of 1941-1949, suspicion and tension between the USSR and the US escalated as the balance of power shifted and the political emphasis of capitalism and communism heightened, causing the two nations to become suspicious of one another.

As noted earlier, the key cause of the war between the US and the USSR was the intense distrust of one another. Each of the two nations believed that the other wanted to take the world hence development of distrust among them. The US and the USSR had initially joined hands, as allies, in the world war to fight against Germany (Freedman, 1983). In 1943, the ambassador to the Soviet Union was quoted saying that the US feared that Russia would likely gain more power after the war. During the world war, the US and the USSR disagreed in a number of ways, especially on the military strategy. The USSR and the US couldn’t agree on opening a second front against the Germans in Western Europe. Stalin had issued a request in July 1941 requiring Britain to invade France but it wasn’t in a position to do so. Stalin further requested the Western allies to open a second front during the early months of the war, which came to take place on June 1944. The US and Britain had indicated that they would open a second front in 1942, and subsequently in 1943, though they postponed it on both times (Freedman, 1983). The Soviet-developed the belief that both the US and Great Britain had delayed in opening the second front in order to influence the dominate Europe and peace settlement. During the war, most of the Russian soldiers were injured while others not less than 20 million deaths. However, the Soviet still had distrust issues with the Allies even after World War II. In 1944 the Soviets emerged to have intentionally delayed the aid of the Polish underground’s Warsaw uprising against the Germans. The Soviet didn’t make any supplies from the air for the uprising, and they refused to allow the American and British air drops. The US and the USSR had contrasting economic and peace ideologies even before the end of the war. It was clear that the two nations couldn’t coordinate and cooperate to work together anymore after World War II due to the rivalry among them (Freedman, 1983).

A number of postwar differences between the Soviet emerged. The differences were emanating from the diverging interpretations of wartime as well as instantaneous conferences after the war. The Soviet clearly expressed their disappointments on the fact that the Western allies failed to open a second front against the Nazis. Additionally, the occupation of Iran by both the Soviets and the British led to tensions as none of the two was willing to pull out (Hazard, 1948). In 1945 during the Yalta Conference, there was no any consensus that was reached on the postwar resolution in Europe. During the Potsdam Conference in 1945, again the Soviets and the Americans couldn’t agree on ways to develop the Eastern Europe and Germany. The death of Roosevelt led to Truman’s leadership who was unaware of the military and foreign policy matters. Tensions emerged between the US and the USSR after the two started spreading differing economic ideologies. The US was spreading capitalism and initiated the Marshall Plan. Stalin who was the president by then was against the Marshall Plan as it went against the Communist ideologies. Germany was segmented into two where the Eastern block was supporting the communist ideologies while the Western block was supporting capitalism (Hazard, 1948). The Long Telegram sent by Kennan in 1946 February also led to distrust between the USSR and the US. This was followed by Winston’s speech on March 1946, which the Soviets interpreted as incitement for the West to initiate a war with them. The activities of USSR in Germany were against the idea of the US which centered on restoring the ailing country. It is due to these tensions and suspicions whereby the US believed that USSR was organizing a war against them, as the case also with USSR, that cold war took place in 1947 (Hazard, 1948).

The truth is that lack of cooperation between the US and the USSR led to disagreements and eventually a war. The US and the USSR failed to communicate in one voice hence suspicion and distrust. The two nations believed that the other was fighting against them due to the fact that they had all emerged as superpowers in the World War II. The two nations could easily settle their differences through compromising some things. The leaders of both the US and the USSR would have joined hands to work as a team instead of developing distrust and suspicion towards one another.

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Hazard, J. (1948). Post-War Developments in the U.S.S.R. International Journal, 3(3), 201. doi: 10.2307/40197633

Freedman, L. (1983). The super powers and regional tension: the USSR, the United States and Western Europe William Griffith. Futures, 15(4), 317. doi: 10.1016/0016- 3287(83)90137-4