Cold War (1 ene 1947 año – 1 ene 1991 año)

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Following the end of World War 2, the "Big Three" (British [rime minister Winston Churchill, U.S. president Harry Truman, and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin) decided what was to be done with the decimated remains of Europe. Roosevelt hoped to establish a good relationship with the Soviets, but ultimately this would prove to be difficult at best. Relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union steadily declined after their temporary wartime alliance during WW2, and the United States came to see Communism as a dangerous and evil force in the world, that it was obliged to contain. Thus resulted the U.S foreign policy of containment, the idea that the U.S. would not allow Communism to spread beyond its immediate post-WW2 borders. This resulted from the Domino Theory, the idea that if one country were allowed to fall to Communism, the countries around it would fall, then the countries around those would fall, and then the U.S. would have a problem.This policy of containment conflicted with the Soviet policy of expansionism, in which it tried to turn as many countries to Communism as it could. Thus started the Cold War, throughout which the U.S. and the Soviet Union were at nearly constant odds with one another and engaged in proxy wars with eachother, although never going "hot," as both sides possessed nuclear weapons, which made it such that a "hot" war would result in mutual annihilation. Thus it was called the Cold War. (Change: the Cold War would become the focal point of U.S. foreign policy)

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