SPAC this text. What is the main idea of this text?
S - George Kennan believes that the government should contain Soviet communism P - To inform the government to stop the spread of communism A - The American government C - The end of World War II created two giants of the United States and Soviet Union
The American government needs to take measures to prevent the spread of communism and the influence of the Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain: The military and political boundary that separated the Soviet Union from the rest of the world, more specifically the US and its allies.
The Cold War
- A time of confrontation and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union
- The United States and Soviet Union threatened one another with nuclear war
- Both countries wanted to be the most powerful nation in the world
- The United States forms NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in response as an alliance
- Distrust: The United States refused to recognize the Soviet Union even during WW2 as a communist nation and provide loans after war
- Yalta Conference: Free elections to Eastern Europe and Poland
- World Vision: The Soviet Union wanted to never get attacked again and wanted to punish Germany: United States wanted to decolonize and have peace reintegrating Germany into Europe with disarmament
- Berlin Airlift: The Soviet Union and Stalin wants Berlin to themselves, makes attempts to starve out West Berlin but the United States airlifts supplies 1 plane every 30 seconds ending blockade by Soviet Union.