Timeline for To what extent was the Cold War caused by post World War 2 economics?
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| Aug 20, 2014 at 7:49 | comment | added | jwenting | @Vector I'd call them associates rather than allies. Think "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". It's well known that Churchill especially seriously mistrusted Stalin, either Churchill or Roosevelt (can't remember which) despised de Gaulle, etc. etc. But they had a common goal and they knew they needed each other to achieve it, FOR NOW. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 7:38 | comment | added | user2590 | Regardless, there was no cold war - they were allies - that probably precludes the idea of a cold war. No, things were not "hunky dory" but "cold war" is a specific term with a specific meaning - check out Wikipedia: Cold War: It was "cold" because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, although there were major regional wars in Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan that the two sides supported... It's a war without direct shooting (for the most part). | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 7:34 | comment | added | jwenting | @Vector even while they were trying to decide that they were playing powergames and not trusting each other... The photo of them sitting together in the sun in Yalta was a scene set for the press to show all was nice, much like Reagan and Gorbachev parading in front of the cameras smiling when they just had failed to reach an agreement in Iceland. | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 7:33 | comment | added | user2590 | +1 on this answer - I think it is fundamentally correct - the cold war was decidedly a political conflict, not an economic one. But I have a bone to to pick: The cold war started even before the end of WW2 - No. Distrust and suspicion do not make a cold war. Hard to call it a cold war when Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill were allies enjoying the weather together in Yalta as they tried to decide how to divide up Europe... | |
| May 29, 2013 at 22:54 | vote | accept | Kobunite | ||
| May 27, 2013 at 13:37 | history | answered | jwenting | CC BY-SA 3.0 |