Causes of Cold War:

-The Soviet Union refused to become part of the UN for a long time

-Stalin felt that America and Britain were delaying D-Day, causing more Soviet losses in a plot to weaken
-the Soviet army. Almost sixty times more Soviets died in the war than the Americans.

-The Soviets and Germans had a non-aggression pact in the first two years of the war with a secret
protocol

-The support of the Western allies of the Atlantic Charter

-The Eastern Bloc of Soviet satellite states that was created

-The Allies allowing Germany to rebuild an industry and army, scrapping the Marshall and Morgenthau
plans

-The Allies allowing Germany to join NATO

-American and British fears of communist attacks and the Soviet Union’s dislike of capitalism

-The Soviet Union’s fear of America’s nuclear weapons and refusal to share their nuclear secrets

-The Soviet Union’s actions in Eastern Germany, in the Soviet zone

-The USSR’s aim to promote communism across the world and their expansion into Eastern Europe

The reaction of Truman in an enduring national security is Pressures between the Communist country
and also the Capitalist u. s. return to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and proceeded through the
interwar amount.

Despite the very fact that partners in WWII, the U.S. what is more, the land had incompatible views on
once war remake of Federal Republic of Germany and Europe, prompting a spot in Europe between the
jap alignment of the Soviets and also the Western Bloc of NATO countries.

The President received associate unequivocal enemy of Soviet arrangement along with his Truman set
up, a dream to assist enduring countries to forestall the unfold of Communism; several date the start of
the conflict to Truman's discourse regarding the arrangement in 1947.With the Soviet's barricade of East
Berlin and American's reaction of the airlift, the conflict was with authority current.

In spite of the very fact that the war was cold with no immediate battle between the land and also the
U.S there have been many intermediary wars impressed by the U.S. strategy to prevent the unfold of
Communism, as an example, the warfare and Vietnam War

The rise of McCarthyism

McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason, especially when related to
communism, without any proper regard for evidence

After the World war II, the US was inspired by senator Joseph McCarthy and was gripped with paranoia
about Soviet sympathizers. The first time when McCarthy accused the US government of being filled
with secret communist boss on 9th February 1950 anti-Russian fair also known as the red scare reached
its height. The second World war has just ended with USSR and USSR was the real winner and Europe
was locked in a new and silent struggle in the 1950.

Meanwhile, China openly US-backed opposition to Mao Zedong was failing with the surge tensions in
Korea. To make matters worse perceived Soviet scientific superiority had led people to test their own
nuclear weapons in 1949. The world was not face and if another war had to be fought between
capitalism and communism then it would ruin then the one that defeated fascism.

While the fear was in the backdrop senator McCarthy addressed a Republican women's club in West
Virginia and produced a piece of paper which he claimed contained 2015 names of known communist
who was still working with state department. After this McCarthy’s name was given to the mass
anticommunist fervor across America. Hereon, he started engaging on a vicious campaign of public
accusation against anyone who had a connection with left or left of center politics. Thousands of people
lost their jobs and somewhere imprisoned. the entertainment industry and the illegal homosexual
community was also targeted by McCarthy.

Actors were denied employment who had suspected ties with communist and they were publicly
acknowledged as former Communist party member. These people became to be known as Hollywood
blacklist. McCarthy supporters was zealous in firing large numbers of homosexual even if they had no
connection with communism

References:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Cold-War

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare

https://www.britannica.com/topic/McCarthyism

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-ushistory/chapter/conclusion-truman-and-the-
beginning-of-the-cold-war/