Cold War

Describe how the Cold War ideology that crystallized after WWII changed wartime alliances that had existed during the war.

WWII Allies: Britain, America, Russia

WWII Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan

Cold War Alliances: Britain + America vs. Russia

Cold War Battlefront: Germany

The Cold War ideology was one of global political dominance. For decades Britain had led Europe into a time of political, social, economic, and military dominance over the rest of the world during the colonial era. After WWII, Europe had been devastated by war and two new great powers emerged; the United States and Russia (USSR).

The Cold War itself was a political battle to determine whether Democracy or Communism would serve as the stronger government. A government itself is responsible for every facet of life its citizens lead.

When the US took the lead in high standards of living, Russia responded by mobilizing economic industrial output. As the US returned favor by increasing its own economic output, the industrial powers race overflowed into military prowess. A nuclear weapons arms race ensued.

As new technology emerged over these ballistic missiles, new projects like the space program also emerged. The space program went so far as to receive billions of dollars from the US government to develop an in stellar GDI (Global Defense Initiative) system which could fire "lasers" from space at ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, otherwise termed nuclear warheads).

Well during the late '40s and '50s there were the increased tensions with the Soviet Union over what would happen to Germany and how it would be split. The Soviet Union wanted a lot because Stalin was a paranoid, mean guy who never really trusted anybody and resented the other allies from stalling their attacks in the West. So the U.S. did what they could to stop the Soviets. When Berlin was surrounded by the Soviets, we started the Berlin airlift and hindered any attempt by the Russians. During the...