Cold War: When Did It Start? Why Did It Start?

Abstract

With the Cold War over, we should look back at its root causes. One of the still puzzling question is when did the Cold War actually start? What caused WWI and WWII allies to become our greatest enemy? Were there any correlations between the causes of the Cold War and other events that were taking place at the time? If so, how did they contribute to the war? Looking back at Russian history, and America's involvement in that history, I will show that the undeclared war between the two states that would span a century began with the Russian Revolution of 1917. I will then move forward in history to look at WWI and an in-depth look at WWII as to determine what factors caused the Americans and Russians to take the courses of action they did to forge the Cold War.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA397031

Entities

People

  • Vito V. Mannino

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Civil War
  • Eastern Europe
  • Governments
  • International Relations
  • Law
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Nato
  • New York
  • Revolutions
  • Second World War
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Western Europe

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Strategic Security Studies