{"id":1592,"date":"2015-08-20T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanyawphist118x15x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=1592"},"modified":"2015-08-20T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T05:28:11","slug":"the-cold-war-2","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/sanjacinto-atdcoursereview-ushistory2-1\/chapter\/the-cold-war-2\/","title":{"raw":"The Cold War","rendered":"The Cold War"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_1284\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1000\"]\"An<\/a> French government's test of the Licorne thermonuclear weapon, Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia, 1970, via Flickr user Pierre J<\/a>.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIn a public address on February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin blamed the outbreak of the Second World War on \u201ceconomic and political forces\u201d driven by \u201cmonopoly capitalism.\u201d Many saw it as empty rhetoric to rally the Soviet Union\u2019s capitalists, but officials in the United States and Britain, long suspicious of Stalin\u2019s postwar intentions, viewed it with alarm.\u00a0On February 22, the Charge d\u2019Affaires of the US Embassy in Moscow, George Kennan cabled the State Department his belief assessment that \u201cworld communism\u201d was \u201ca malignant parasite\u201d that \u201cfeeds only on diseased tissue,\u201d and \u201cthe steady advance of uneasy Russian nationalism\u201d in its \u201cnew guise of international Marxism\u201d was \u201cmore dangerous and insidious than ever before.\u201d The telegram made waves among American officials. On March 5, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited President Harry Truman and gave a speech in his home state of Missouri declaring that Europe had been cut in half by into two spheres separated by an \u201ciron curtain\u201d that had \u201cdescended across the Continent.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe Cold War, a global geopolitical and ideological struggle between (western) capitalist and (eastern) communist countries, fueled a generations-long, multifaceted rivalry between the remaining superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Tensions ran highest, perhaps, during the \u201cfirst Cold War,\u201d which lasted from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s, after which followed a period of relaxed tensions and increased communication and cooperation, known by the French term d\u00e9tente<\/i>, until the \u201csecond Cold War\u201d interceded from roughly 1979 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. \u201cCold\u201d because it was not a \u201cHot\u201d shooting war, the Cold War reshaped the world, altered American life, and affected generations of Americans.","rendered":"
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In a public address on February 9, 1946, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin blamed the outbreak of the Second World War on \u201ceconomic and political forces\u201d driven by \u201cmonopoly capitalism.\u201d Many saw it as empty rhetoric to rally the Soviet Union\u2019s capitalists, but officials in the United States and Britain, long suspicious of Stalin\u2019s postwar intentions, viewed it with alarm.\u00a0On February 22, the Charge d\u2019Affaires of the US Embassy in Moscow, George Kennan cabled the State Department his belief assessment that \u201cworld communism\u201d was \u201ca malignant parasite\u201d that \u201cfeeds only on diseased tissue,\u201d and \u201cthe steady advance of uneasy Russian nationalism\u201d in its \u201cnew guise of international Marxism\u201d was \u201cmore dangerous and insidious than ever before.\u201d The telegram made waves among American officials. On March 5, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visited President Harry Truman and gave a speech in his home state of Missouri declaring that Europe had been cut in half by into two spheres separated by an \u201ciron curtain\u201d that had \u201cdescended across the Continent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cold War, a global geopolitical and ideological struggle between (western) capitalist and (eastern) communist countries, fueled a generations-long, multifaceted rivalry between the remaining superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Tensions ran highest, perhaps, during the \u201cfirst Cold War,\u201d which lasted from the mid-1940s through the mid-1960s, after which followed a period of relaxed tensions and increased communication and cooperation, known by the French term d\u00e9tente<\/i>, until the \u201csecond Cold War\u201d interceded from roughly 1979 until the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. \u201cCold\u201d because it was not a \u201cHot\u201d shooting war, the Cold War reshaped the world, altered American life, and affected generations of Americans.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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