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Analyzing the developments post–WWorld War II
The Golden Age
Military Power Shifts Caused by the War
ex. Yalta Pact and the development of Nuclear Weapons
The Causes of the Cold War
Western democracies had always been hostile to the idea of a communist state. The United States had refused recognition to the USSR for 16 years after the Bolshevik takeover. Also, the Soviet Union believed in communism.
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Military Power Shifts Caused by the War
US Nuclear Bomb
In 1952, the United States tested the world's first nuclear bomb. Atomic bombs have been used only twice in war—both times by the United States against Japan at the end of World War II. United States and the Soviet Union fought in a global nuclear arms race.
Communist Movement in China
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921. Chinese Communists joined with the Nationalist Army in the Northern Expedition of 1926 to get rid of the people that prevented the formation of a strong central government.
A Global Alliance
During World War 2, the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, and China formed a global alliance. Western Europe sided with the United States in NATO, while the Soviet Union’s allies in Europe became unified under the Warsaw Pact.
Franco-Prussian War
During the Franco-Prussian War, the French won back territories they lost. The war marked the end of French power in Europe and resulted in the creation of a unified Germany.
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Letters from the War
'Dear Gertie, I have written two or three times recently so you may get them together. We have been very busy for the last few weeks and have got through a great amount of work. We are much better off again as regards potatoes and other food stuffs for we have had a great quantity of stores. I fancy we shall be here for a time yet anyway it looks like it with such a quantity of stores aboard. You will see I am telling you the same things over and over again. At least I know I have told you them once or twice but everything about is all of a sameness kind of thing. Ships here there and everywhere now. But soon we shall have a move that is when we can get through the White Sea. We shall have to look after all the shipping.
The snow is fast disappearing now. I came across an article in a paper the other day about this district and it said that 14 or 15 years ago bears used to roam around hear [sic], but there seems to be nothing around now excepting the wild fowl, which are very numorous. I believe salmon are numerous at certain times of the year.
The 2nd and 3rd of May we had a terrific snow blizzard. We should have left the ship to go away and do some work on another ship but we could not get away from our ship it was so rough. We have no night now, the sun goes down but it never goes dark, it is eternally daylight.
Of course I told you we have had an entire change round and I have a new job now, part of the ship. I have not half the time I used to have but I enjoy the robust work much better and I get to see much more with working away. We get up at 6.30 and work until 1.00 so we put a few hours in don't we. That is when we are working away.
Did you get the £1-0-0 I remitted? Let me know. I have remitted another £3-0-0 this month. Let me know if you receive this also. I shall probably send a little more next month or later. Don't hold the paper money. Bank it or keep it by you in gold until I come home.
Tell Dad I shall to him as soon as I can get enough to tell him about. Give my best love to everyone at home, I often think about you all. I am yours ever, Ted.'
This letter was written by a soldier in World War 2 soldier This letter was one of a series written to his sister by sailor Teddy Ashton when his ship HMS Albemarlewas stationed in Russian Lapland in 1916. The occasion was the war, so his bias would be affected by the side he is fighting on. Teddy Ashton lets his loved ones know what his conditions are, he says that he has been very busy lately and they are well off in terms of food.
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Winstons Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
I am glad to come to Westminster College this afternoon, and am complimented that you should give me a degree. The name "Westminster" is somehow familiar to me.
I seem to have heard of it before. Indeed, it was at Westminster that I received a very large part of my education in politics, dialectic, rhetoric, and one or two other things. In fact we have both been educated at the same, or similar, or, at any rate, kindred establishments.
It is also an honour, perhaps almost unique, for a private visitor to be introduced to an academic audience by the President of the United States. Amid his heavy burdens, duties, and responsibilities-unsought but not recoiled from-the President has travelled a thousand miles to dignify and magnify our meeting here to-day and to give me an opportunity of addressing this kindred nation, as well as my own countrymen across the ocean, and perhaps some other countries too. The President has told you that it is his wish, as I am sure it is yours, that I should have full liberty to give my true and faithful counsel in these anxious and baffling times. I shall certainly avail myself of this freedom, and feel the more right to do so because any private ambitions I may have cherished in my younger days have been satisfied beyond my wildest dreams. Let me, however, make it clear that I have no official mission or status of any kind, and that I speak only for myself. There is nothing here but what you see.
Churchill began his speech by praising the United States, and said it stood “at the pinnacle of world power.” Churchill wanted to form a special relationship between the United States and Great Britain. The audience was the United States government and the occasion was the cold war. The purpose of this speech was to form an alliance between the United States and Great Britain.
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