American involvement in the cold war
Although the Russians were expanding into Europe, they weren't openly threatening the safety of America, just small European nations, some of which were american allies, many of which were not, and so American involvement in their business is just America butting in where its not really needed. But then it turned personal., attacking former allies of both nations, no matter how small, and the US started going crazy about anticommunism.
But America really couldn't do much of anything about the larger countries like Poland under soviet control, so the USSR just kept going. They introduced the Marshall Plan to their closer allies, to take back soviet lands, but the USSR prohibited its new territories from joining. They did however, get back a few smaller nations from under Soviet control.
But America really couldn't do much of anything about the larger countries like Poland under soviet control, so the USSR just kept going. They introduced the Marshall Plan to their closer allies, to take back soviet lands, but the USSR prohibited its new territories from joining. They did however, get back a few smaller nations from under Soviet control.
President Harry Truman was the first American president to fight in the cold war, but after him, Eisenhower, Kennedy and many others fought communism politically from inside the Oval Office. Basically, however, the Americans were trying to control non-Communist lands, so they could be there first. Also, they supported almost any non communist government, even if they were horribly corrupt in itself. But, in the end, the Americans were a lot stronger than the soviets, with more industrial goods, and big nuclear arsenals, neither of which the Soviets had. The USA is considered the winner of the cold war, which makes sense as the USSR ceased to exist after its finish.