Causes of the Cold War

[bailey_187]

What were the causes of the Cold war? (starting 1945)

[chegitz guevara]

The imperialists need to contain communism. Following WWII everyone expected revolutionary wave. In fact, one happened, in Greece, Italy, France, etc. Unfortunately, except in Greece, that wave was channeled into reformist Stalinism. In Greece, they took up arms to try and overthrow the restored monarchy, but failed. There were revolutions in Korea and China, and the Indochina revolutionary wars started. In the U.S., the years 1946 and 1947 each consecutively had the largest strike waves in American history. The social democratic Labour Party in Great Britain won. Clearly, the imperialists had a strong interest in trying to stop this wave, hence, the Marshall Plan and then NATO internationally, and domestically, McCarthyism (which actually began under Truman, before McCarthy opened his yap). Collectively, these actions began the Cold War.

[KarlMarx1989]

All I know is that in 1961 and 1962, christian-America deployed all sorts of missiles in Italy and Turkey, so the USSR set up missiles in Cuba to respond to this. christian-America took it wrong and kept the fact that they had been deploying missiles away from the media to convince its people that they did nothing wrong and that this was a senseless act of violence by communists. I am not clear on what happened before this to provoke any US vs. USSR scenarios. I know that the two were allies during and, I think, a while after World War II.

[Jimmie Higgins]

The short answer is that the cold war came out of a conflict between two powers who couldn't realistically have a conventional war due to atomic weapons.

After WWII the remaining powers (basically the US and USSR) wanted to redivide the world. The US and UK wanted to keep the old order going and so they fought to keep the monarchy in Greece and France in control of its old colonies like Algeria and Vietnam.

The USSR wanted stability and a buffer to continue industrialization and so it created it's own colonial sphere in Eastern Europe. The US was definitely the more aggressive of the two imperial superpowers since it came out of the war as the master of the old European powers and master of the A-bomb.

[Durruti's Ghost]

What were the causes of the Cold war? (starting 1945)

Capitalism.

[Vendetta]

2 superpowers at odds with each other and both relatively equal power-wise.

[Black Sheep]

Another on-topic question.
How and why did USSR manage such a competition, when its economy was devastated from WW2?
And why did it favor it, with the living standards having being reduced after the war.

I mean,when you send people to space, your priorities have to be a little fucked up.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Another on-topic question.
How and why did USSR manage such a competition, when its economy was devastated from WW2?
And why did it favor it, with the living standards having being reduced after the war.

I mean,when you send people to space, your priorities have to be a little fucked up.

Actually, though the Soviets had lost many people in the war the rapid industrialization kept them alive and brought them out of the war far more powerful than they went in.

Also, socialism had many supporters. not everyone may have been supportive of the soviets brand but because it hindered the imperialists it provided much more room for strategy in the USSR. Also, after the war, for the most part, they merely consolidated their borders and just went on with their lives rebuilding and so on.

Also before the end of the decade they got the bomb. allowing them to defend themselves if attacked. which ould be argued that the bomb saved the world from another catastrophic war.

[Искра]

Capitalism.
and state capitalism.
plus imperialism.