Causes of the Cold War

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In this essay I would like to highlight my understanding for the causes of the cold war. In fact, "the cold war" called in that name because of the struggle which is followed the World War II between superpowers: US & USSR. Both of sides work hard to widen their potency and narrowed the conflict, but it found overlap in it, which raise the stress and the struggle. The struggle lengthened from the end of the of second world war, middle of 1940s to the end of 1980s in 20th century, and the result was USSR collapsed in 1991, end of the cold war. The aim of this essay is to draw the attention to the people who don't aware that the fundamental cause of the cold war was a clash of ideologies between the superpowers, because of increased the radices of ideologies of this war and many historians negotiate for the causes. First of all, I started with the structure of the cold war (the origins of the cold war). During this section I argued that why the conflict started?, and who was the inciter? to be the introduction of the causes. Secondly, I would be deeper to prove the cause, so I would argue about some schools of thought, the orthodox or traditionalist thinkers who blamed the Soviet for the confrontation and give some historians views to prove this school. Thirdly, another school declared (revisionist people) who thought that the cause was US because of the Soviet looses which the Soviet suffered during the war. In addition, I analyzed some historian's suggestions for Truman. Forth point and final school (post-revisionist people) and they thought that both of sides played part in the escalation of the conflict. Finally, I would give my typical answer for the question and prove my ideas which I reached to the actual cause of the cold wa...

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...erstanding the causes of the Cold War historians it is not possible to blame any person or any country for the Cold War which I think. The Cold War was the result of the clash of two different ideas, neither of the two superpowers caused it, but some people, or groups of people of the same opinion, lengthened, worsened or possibly even shortened the war.

References:

Hobsbawn, E. (1994), Age of Extremes: The short twentieth century 1914-1991, London: Michael Joseph. P.236

McCauley, M.(1995), The Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949, 2ed Edition, London: Longman. P.9

Gabriel, K.(1969), The politics of power: Allied diplomacy and the world crisis of 1943-1945, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, p.4.

McCauley, M.(1995), The Origins of the Cold War 1941-1949, 2ed Edition, London: Longman. P.26.

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