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In five pages this paper examines the Cold War’s causes and effects. One source is listed in the bibliography.
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1945 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 (Bagby 141). This was a time in which alliances were based primarily upon political ideology. If a country
exhibited any Soviet sympathies, it was immediately dubbed as anti-democracy and therefore anti-American. The Cold War was an intricate international relations chess game in which there were only two
players. Power was so highly concentrated between the U.S. and Soviets that other countries had no alternative except to choose sides and do as they were told. But
surprisingly, once upon a time, Russia had been the largest country supporter of the fledgling United States (Bagby 141). Long an adversary of Great Britain, Russia favored the colonists
independence movement and had also provided military support to American forces against the British during the War of 1812 (Bagby 141). It also supported the union remaining intact during
the Civil War, and during both the First and Second World Wars (Bagby 141). What happened? World War II drastically changed the global geographical and political landscape.
Once powerful nations Germany and Japan were in ruins and Great Britain had also sustained catastrophic losses in terms of life and property and was on the brink of
bankruptcy. Only the United States and Soviet Union remained relatively intact. These countries acquired power and prestige throughout the world neither could have imagined. But with this
power grew a mistrust that first simmered and then reached a boiling point. The Cold War was not the result of a single cause, but of many. One
cause was territorial expansion as each country wasted no time in filling the "power vacuums" the wars devastation created (Bagby 142). The Soviets quickly annexed Poland, Romania, East Prussia,
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