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This 6 page paper traces the root causes of the Cold War all the way back to the Russian Civil War and discusses how the tensions between the US and Russia magnified during the middle war years and World War II. Incidents such as the Cuban Missile Crisis almost resulted in full-out war. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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world history. It resulted in the aftermath of World War II but the causative factors of the Cold War actually extend much further back in time. The Russian
Civil War had actually started in 1917 before the end of World War I in 1918. It would extend through 1923 and occurred in the Russian empire after the
collapse of the Russian provisional government. The pro-revolutionary Bolshevik Party, or more specifically the Bolshevik Red Army, fought against the anti-Bolshevik White Army and even the Allied forces.
Interestingly, the US had been one of these allies. Under the Woodrow Wilson administration the US had actually provided both technical and economical support to the Russian provisional government
when she was ruled by Alexander Kerensky prior to the Bolsheviks overthrowing that government. The tensions that resulted between the US and the new Russian government would extend
through the middle war years and into World War II. It is not surprising that those tensions would only magnify in the aftermath of World War II.
While the Russians were our allies during World War II, its culmination left much to be desired from the Russian perspective.
At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections controlled by the Allies, however, at Yalta he was fully in support of dividing Germany
(Rauch 7). Germany would be divided into four segments with the principle players (the United States, Great Britain, France and Russia) each controlling a sector (Rauch 7). The
city of Berlin was in the Russian sector but was also divided into four sectors (Rauch 7). The divisions of Germany and Berlin
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