cold war

Cold War During the 1950’s
The rise in nuclear weapons affected the Unites States and Soviet Union as well as foreign relations with other countries, such as the Third World countries. Numerous policies, pacts, and alliances were created during the 1950’s to strengthen the United States and wipe out the spread of communism.
The Cold War during the 1950’s was a time where both of the superpowers, Soviet Union and the United States,   were going through   new leaderships.   In 1953, Dwight   D. Eisenhower was sworn into presidency ending the democratic two decade long control. Despite the change in presidency the United States policy on the Cold War remained unchanged. At the same time as the rethinking of foreign policy was launched known as Operation Solarium, the preponderance of emerging ideas such as the rollback of communism and the liberation of Eastern Europe were swiftly regarded as unworkable. The broad approach of the United States   foreign policy was to keep focus on the containment of Soviet communism. Military strength alone is not an adequate barrier to this insidious process so to defeat the spread of communism by these means, economic progress is essential.# The transition from the Truman to the Eisenhower presidencies was a   moderate in character, on the other hand the Soviet Union’s change was   immeasurable. After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, who had led the Soviet Union since 1928, the Soviet’s named his former assistant Nikita Khrushchev first secretary of the communist party.   Khrushchev solidified is power by shocking the Soviet   and   western allies by making a speech about many crimes that occurred during Stalin’s leadership. This later took into affect and Khrushchev was named premier of the Soviet Union in 1958. This impacted the Soviet politics greatly. The speech that Khrushchev   made converted the remaining Stalinist rivals of   their authenticity   in a single breath, increasing the   First Party Secretary’s power domestically. With...