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A 5 page research paper that examines 4 questions pertaining to the Cold War. The questions cover issues that produced the war; where "hot" wars broke out and areas of the world in which the US and the USSR competed for loyalty; key events that affected the relations between the superpowers; and reforms instituted by Gorbachev and other causes of the end of the Cold War. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Some scholars lay the blame entirely on Soviet aggression while others argue that US actions played a role. Those favoring economic issues as a prime factor have a point in
that the US, out of all the industrialized countries of the world, had its cities and industry intact at the end of World War II. But while the US economy
was healthy, it was also an economy that was based on wartime production. For that production continued required an enemy and a "war" (Vidal, 1998). Allied forces had previously agreed
at the Yalta Summit to split Germany. Since the Soviets had, by far, been involved in the most fighting and suffered the greatest losses, it was agreed that they would
get an early crack at reparations from Germany with $20 billion as the agreed upon sum (Vidal, 1998). Truman would later confirm the Yalta agreements at Potsdam as well as
a plan for the unification of Germany. However, with the development of the atom bomb, the US no longer needed Soviet cooperation to defeat Japan (Vidal, 1998). . The U.S.
started to back off from the previous agreements with the Soviet Union--particularly in regards to reparations from Germany (Vidal, 1998). In May of 1946, the U.S. began to locate strategic
arms in Germany, which appeared to Stalin that the US was rearming that country. He was enraged at this perceived betrayal (Vidal, 1998). The Cold War was off and
running. However, it was also significant that the USSR backed away from their agreement at Yalta to allow their satellite countries (such as Poland) to have free elections. This
development, plus the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948 caused the US to fear for the safety of all of Western Europe. From the US perspective, they were merely protecting
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