What Was The Cause Of The Cold War In The 1960's
The cause of the Cold War revolved around both the United States and the Soviet Union attempting to gain worldwide control by influencing the rest of the world. After becoming the most powerful country in the world after World War II, the United States tried to use that power to proclaim a new global order that revolved around democracy and capitalism. The Soviet Union, however, preferred communism and a world revelation in the name of the worker. The Soviet Union also wanted to surround itself with other countries that were open to their communist beliefs. The United States viewed this as a direct threat to end capitalism. This resulted in an ideological, economic, and military conflict known as the Cold War. The Cold War would ultimately shape American politics, economics, and cultural and social developments from the 1940's through the 1960's.
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The Berlin Crisis was one of the first confrontations of the Cold War. Allies from World War II agreed to divide Germany, including the capital of Berlin into four occupation zones between the U.S., Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. In order to reconstruct the economy, the U.S., Great Britain, and France decided to extend the Deutschmark into West Berlin in hopes of bringing the nation together under Western democracy and capitalism. Stalin, however, disagreed a formed a blockade in West Berlin to prevent food and supplies from entering the non-Soviet sections of the city. The U.S. responded by airlifting the food and supplies to the areas affected by the blockade, causing the Soviets to eventually end the blockade. Out of the Berlin Crisis came the need for the Americans and its Allies to enter into a pact known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A key provision of this treaty declared that if an attack was made on any of the allies, it was considered an attack on all of
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The Berlin Crisis was one of the first confrontations of the Cold War. Allies from World War II agreed to divide Germany, including the capital of Berlin into four occupation zones between the U.S., Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. In order to reconstruct the economy, the U.S., Great Britain, and France decided to extend the Deutschmark into West Berlin in hopes of bringing the nation together under Western democracy and capitalism. Stalin, however, disagreed a formed a blockade in West Berlin to prevent food and supplies from entering the non-Soviet sections of the city. The U.S. responded by airlifting the food and supplies to the areas affected by the blockade, causing the Soviets to eventually end the blockade. Out of the Berlin Crisis came the need for the Americans and its Allies to enter into a pact known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). A key provision of this treaty declared that if an attack was made on any of the allies, it was considered an attack on all of