alliances that had existed during the war.
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Describe how the Cold War ideology that crystallized after WWII changed wartime alliances that had existed during the war.
WWII Allies: Britain, America, Russia
WWII Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan
Cold War Alliances: Britain + America vs. Russia
Cold War Battlefront: Germany
The Cold War ideology was one of global political dominance. For decades Britain had led Europe into a time of political, social, economic, and military dominace over the rest of the world during the colonial era. After WWII, Europe had been devastated by war and two new great powers emerged; the United States and Russia (USSR).
The Cold War itself was a political battle to determine whether Democracy or Communism would serve as the stronger government. A government itself is responsible for every facet of life its citizens lead.
Many USSR satallites emerged such as in Kazakstans, N. Korea, E. Germany and other surrounding nations. Similarily, Western Europe sided with the Democratic US and even went so far as to create NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization??).
When the US took the lead in high standards of living, Russia responded by mobilizing economic industrial output. As the US returned favor by increasing its own economic output, the industrial powers race overflowed into military prowess. A nuclear weapons arms race ensued.
As new technology emerged over these ballistic missiles, new projects like the space program also emerged. The space program went so far as to recieve billions of dollars from the US government to develop an instellar GDI (Global Defense Initiative) system which could fire "lasers" from space at ICBMs (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, otherwise termed Nuclear warheads).
This laser defense system was never realized because nobody knew how to focus a laser so concentrated that it could blow up a missile. Fortunately for the US, Russia bought the bluff and realizing that they didn't have enough funds to start their own GDI research, began the SALT treaty (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) to diffuse nuclear weapons which then brought about the end to the Cold War.
Hmmm...I guess I started to ramble. Anyways, Cold War ideology is the issue of Democracy vs. Communism political dominance battle.
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