Cuban Missile Crisis

8 Pages 1988 Words

stic side of things, and third being the smaller independent nations between. After that the Soviet Union tried to influence every other country possible to turn to Communism as a form of government. The U.S saw this a threat to their domination over countries to which Democracy was to be introduced. The Truman Doctrine was established in 1947, which was to prevent the Soviet Union’s spread of Communism. The U.S created the Marshall Plan, which announced that there would be military and economic aid sent to prevent the spread of Communism in place like Greece, Turkey, and Iran. President Truman then made a rather offensive statement to the Soviet Union claiming them to be just like Hitler’s regime was, “There isn’t any difference between the totalitarian Russian government and the Hitler government … they are all alike. They are police governments- police state governments” Such claims may be true, but the United States should have respected the diversity of politics. This competitive rivalry only furthered the resentment towards one another and increased the tension between the two. Then in 1949, America, Canada, and ten other European allies joined together to form N.A.T.O, which was created to end the Communistic takeover of the Soviet Union. The main principal of N.A.T.O was that if the Soviet Union were to attack any one of the joined allies then it would be considered an attack on all of them. This perfectly represents the domination and influence that America has over other ...