Cold War History and Ideologies and Politics

Assignment: Cold War Ideology and Politics

LaKara Childers

Axia College University of Phoenix

The Cold War a time during which there was civil unrest

all over the world and in America due to the ending of World War II. The Cold War a name that

was primarily used to describe the relationship between the US and the USSR. The Cold war a

time where no one knew exactly what to make of what was going on in the world. The Cold war

something that affected domestic and foreign policy. All of these things that I just mentioned

describe the cold war but to really understand the cold war you must get a description of how the

Cold War ideology crystallized after WWII and how war time alliances that existed were

changed. You must also get a description of how American Cold War policies and practices

influenced international relations from the late nineteen forties to the mid nineteen fifties. Both

of those things will be described as this paper goes on and will give you some more insight into

the Cold War and what it was about.

So how did the Cold War ideology that crystallized after

WWII change wartime alliances that had existed during the war? Well it changed by dividing

the world and political/ideology boundaries rather than just geographic boundaries, (McGraw

Hill, 2005). The soviet union which used to be an American ally during world war two became

the United States main adversary due to the communist ideology that they had and their

aggressive expansion into regions in eastern and central Europe. It also became true of China,

once China became a communist nation and it started to spread its political influence to other

nations in Asia (McGraw, Hill, 20005). In other words former allies became enemies and former

enemies prior to the Cold War became allies. No one here in the US really ever approved of the

Soviet Union’s form of government and...