After the end of World War II with the victory of the United States of America and the Soviet Union in 1945 after their alliance against the European great power Germany, Mazalia and the Empire of Japan in a war that lasted for six years and killed about 60 million people, and from here the Cold War began
What is the cold war?
It is a political, ideological and sometimes indirect military confrontation that took place after World War II during the period 1947-1991, and its parties are the two largest powers in the world, namely the United States of America and the Soviet Union and their allies, and one of the manifestations of this war was the division of the world There are two camps, a communist led by the Soviet Union and a liberal led by the United States of America
Why is it called the Cold War?
The term Cold War is one of the many conventions invented by the international politics literature in the post-World War II era to demonstrate the type of international relations that prevailed in this era, and to the form of the global balance of power that has settled on it for nearly half a century.
War events
A period before the end of World War II was marked by the possession of one of the two opposing camps, (the United States of America in particular) of the deadly atomic bomb, and this was decisive in accelerating the surrender of the Japanese Empire. Then it is correct to say about equilibrium, (and the atom has its capacity to destroy). Because no one will emerge victorious in such a devastating war, but all humanity and the civilization that created it is the loser.
And if, by definition, the Cold War was the negation of the actual comprehensive war, its development was characterized by the emergence of two violent and sharp races, one of which was the increasing race for arms lest the balance of terror would be disturbed, and the other was the race for spheres of influence in the world, so that one party would not excel over one party in monopolizing global support for its tendencies. ideological and material interests.
At a stage of rivalries, in the Cold War, some researchers also used the term in connection with internal events such as the student uprising in France in 1968. Obsessions (real or fictitious) differentiated between the leaders who were at the helm of the war against Hitler. They were concealing their differences due to the necessity of avoiding any crack in the joint war effort against the enemy. As soon as the war ended, the differences became visible, the most important of which was the dispute over the post-war Germany regime.
Europe remained a major arena of the Cold War. The events required more attention after President Truman committed the United States of America from 1947 to 1949 to support and defend Europe through the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Truman's two foreign ministers, George Marshall and Dean Acheson, were able to lead the United States for the first time into permanent alliances and readiness to confront the Soviet Union. These policies are considered a distinguishing mark and turning point in the American foreign relations that the Republican government could not change at all later on, and during the 1950s.
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