The United States to be the world's first, the US-Soviet "Cold War" officially began

70 years ago today, March 12, 1947 (Lunar New Year February 20), Trumanism proposed that the US-Soviet "Cold War" officially began.

The Cold War refers to political and diplomatic confrontation, conflict and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from 1947 to 1991. The event was marked by Churchill's "Iron Curtain", the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Cuban missile crisis, the Berlin Wall and so on. Since the Second World War had just ended, during this period, although differences and conflicts were serious, both sides had tried to avoid the outbreak of large-scale wars (world wars) around the world, and their confrontation was usually done through local agents, Arms race, diplomatic competition and other "cold" way, that is, "mutual containment, but not resort to force", so called "cold war."

The strategic vision of the US strategic goal is to serve the strategic interests of the United States. The US monopoly bourgeoisie calls for ensuring that the United States "the world's first, the more the better" economic interests, which is the most important strategic interests of the post-war United States.

Truman served as the president of the United States, with the United States as the world's number one power position, publicly declared to "lead the world", and through the implementation of hegemonic policies and means to pursue this goal. Truman said the Soviet Union was the main obstacle to the United States to dominate the world. Its strategic conception is to abandon the US-Soviet cooperation, while engaging in missile threats, while engaging in gold and yuan diplomacy, the use of hegemonic political, economic, military means to control other capitalist countries, compete for Asia and Africa, pressure Eastern Europe, East Asian socialism Country, contain the Soviet Union, dominate the world.

On March 12, 1947, Truman read a letter at the joint meeting of the House of Representatives to attack the Soviet Union as a totalitarian state and demanded that Congress approve the granting of $ 400 million in emergency assistance to Greece and Turkey to counter the totalitarian regime imposed on them All kinds of violations.

Truman's policy was later called Trumanism. It is a major turning point in US foreign policy. In the past the United States called the Soviet Union allies, but on some specific issues to attack the Soviet Union. Now, Truman publicly declared that the Soviet Union was the main enemy of the United States. "Trumanism" is an important symbol of the official beginning of the Cold War.

March 5, 1946 (71 years ago), former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill accompanied by Truman in the United States Fuer Dun published on the "Iron Curtain" speech, opened the "Cold War" prelude. Since then, the United Kingdom for the Greek government to suppress the Greek people to continue to aid the revolutionary armed forces, on February 21, 1947 by the British Foreign Ministry informed the US State Department, the United Kingdom at the end of March to stop the Greek and Turkish military and economic assistance, hope the United States to fill It retreat after leaving the "vacuum". This expression in the United Kingdom provides an opportunity for the United States to expand its influence and execute its policy of "curbing" the Soviet Union with its strength.

The Cold War began at the end of the Second World War, with the economic crisis of the Soviet Union in the 1980s and the democratic reform of Gorbachev, which led to the collapse of the communist countries and the formal end of the Cold War in the Soviet Union on 25 December 1991. China's civil war, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the war in Afghanistan, the Middle East war is an example of several regional conflicts in eastern and western countries, but most of the time is only a conflict between agents, in which the main power is only through the funds And arms assistance to their respective countries or organizations. This reduces the tension between the two camps.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union was a sign of the end of the cold war. The bipolar pattern ends and the world develops toward multipolarization. Eventually, the United States defeated the Soviet Union. Communism was completely defeated in the Soviet Union - even before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many of the countries in the former communist camp had abandoned their faiths one after another. Former Warsaw has long been nowhere to find, and NATO has been active so far, and to absorb a lot of former Soviet Union joined the members of the camp.