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Chapter 23: Question 2
During the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States fought alongside
each other to fight the Axis powers. Nonetheless, their relationship was not healthy since they
had a few tense elements. This paper analyzes the impacts of the Cold War on the United States.
For a long time, Americans had a negative attitude towards the Soviet Union's communism and
raised significant concerns regarding Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia under an undesired
tyrannical system. On the other hand, the Soviets felt aggrieved the United States' refusal to
regard the USSR as a valid region of the globe. Also, they resented the US's attitude towards the
World war, which made them delay their entry into the war, thereby causing the death of many
Russians. Therefore, these issues between the once Allied powers created the historical Cold
War (Foner).
These grievances reemerged upon World War 2, thereby creating a whole new tension
between the two nations and eventually causing the Cold War. Due to the withdrawal of the Axis
powers and the European decolonization, there was a power vacuum in most of Europe.
Therefore, the Soviets and the Americans desired to establish their governments to rule these
regions. The Americans had the most democratic picture of this political control, while the
Soviets preferred authoritarian communism. At the start of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had
already occupied most parts of Eastern Europe, providing a buffer area from external invasion.

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The American citizens therefore enjoyed a sustainable defense against the infiltrations of the
authoritarian Soviet ideology on the federal government (Foner).
The United States retracted from using military force to remove the Soviets, who did not
wish to partake in any warfare against the United States. Instead, the United States formed
political alliances with the west European states to form other treaties. Therefore, the Cold War
was responsible for reshaping the American political ideologies and policies and consequently
impacted its presidency, economy, and public life by establishing new normalcy. At the end of
the Cold War, the United States' perception on freedom changed drastically and influenced most
of the country's affairs. However, by the 1950s, the imperative arising from the Cold war
redefined the freedom concept. Both the Soviets and the Americans could not risk focusing on
some of the provisions and disregarding some (Foner).
The Soviets decided to offer all citizens the freedom to enjoy their economic and social
rights but failed to adhere to the needs of civil liberties and democratic rights. Many Americans,
therefore, condemned the nonpolitical rights to promote socialism. For instance, "Eleanor
Roosevelt saw the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an integrated body of principles, a
combination of traditional civil and political liberties" (Foner, 922). Therefore, the US
government decided to curtail some of the civil liberties wince it feared the communist ideology
which could infiltrate the country from the Soviets. Thus, these constant debates on the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights led to the creation of ambiguous descriptions of human rights
within the American people.

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Surname 1 Name: University: Professor: Date: Chapter 23: Question 2 During the Second World War, the Soviet Union and the United States fought alongside each other to fight the Axis powers. Nonetheless, their relationship was not healthy since they had a few tense elements. This paper analyzes the impacts of the Cold War on the United States. For a long time, Americans had a negative attitude towards the Soviet Union's communism and raised significant concerns regarding Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia under an undesired tyrannical system. On the other hand, the Soviets felt aggrieved the United States' refusal to regard the USSR as a valid region of the globe. Also, they resented the US's attitude towards the World war, which made them delay their entry into the war, thereby causing the death of many Russians. Therefore, these issues between the once Allied powers created the historical ...
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