Explain The Breakdown Of The Wartime Alliances And The Development Of The Cold War By 1947.
The growing tension between the Soviets and the West, United States in particular, reverberated around the world after the Second World War. Although allied in their fight against Nazi Germany, communist Russia and capitalist America soon came to distrust each other’s goals in a post-war world. The Soviets considered the West as being enslaved by capitalism whereas the Americans believed the Soviets were enslaved by communism. This general mistrust and unwillingness to work together is cleverly depicted in the cartoon in Source A and written in the extract of Kennan’s ‘Long Telegram’, Source B. Capitalism and communism were and always will be mutual enemies and both sides believed that the goal of their rival was world domination. This mistrust and belief led to the development of the Cold War by 1945.
The Soviets had multiple reasons to mistrust the West. This distrust started as early as 1917 with the outbreak of a Revolution in Russia. The Russian Revolution meant the......
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