Argumentative Essay: The Cold War

The cold war was a stressful feud between the USSR and the United States. The United States didn’t want the USSR to spread communism across Europe. Although the war never became a physical fight, nuclear weapons scared people all over. Stalin was president of Russia, and wanted to protect it, Stalin never fully trusted the United States, and the United States felt the same. Truman became president, but he was already a strong anti-communist. The Unites States had the advantage of already having an atomic bomb, this threatened Stalin and caused them to get nuclear weapons for their defense. The Cold war was caused by the United States because Truman had failed to inform Stalin on the atomic bomb in Japan, threatened the USSR with their advanced nuclear weapons, and….

The United States president Harry Truman failed to inform Stalin that they were gonna bomb the Japanese.

“The Soviet Union was supposed to join the USA in war with Japan, but the USA dropped the atomic bomb without informing Stalin. This created a huge tension between the two parts.” (Academia.) “Truman chose to tell Stalin only that the U.S. possessed ‘a new weapon of unusual destructive force.’” (Dannen). This proved that Truman didn’t specify that he was gonna bomb the Japanese. Instead of acting as a true allie, and informing Stalin of the attack, he choose to hide it, proving that he didn’t deserve to know. This means that the United States was drifting apart form the USSR and no longer acting as the allies that still were after World War 1. This caused the USSR’s feud with the U.S, because Stalin then became angry and learned to mistrust the U.s creating rivalry between

them.
Another reason why the U.S is to blame is the threat of their nuclear weapons. The creation of “the first atomic bomb came to fruition in the United States and was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico at a site called ‘Trinity’” (Atom central). The arms race caused panic, because the U.S had already created their first Atomic bomb, this bomb was a great threat to the USSR, causing them to create their first nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons meant an atomic bomb could be used on the USSR, without defence. The United States was the first to create this, therefor creating tension between the two superpowers and causing them to create their own nuclear arms. “it was clear” that the U.S would use them in defence of Western Europe in the face of a Soviet invasion” (History today John Swift). Nuclear weapons were on the map and ready to be used at any time, one atomic bomb.