Estados Unidos en el inicio de la Guerra Fría : aspectos geopolíticos y económicos

Abstract

This article deals with the geopolitical and economic circumstances around 1945 that made the government of the United States to undertake certain political measures to confront the "communist menace". Why the Cold War happened after World War II is a question that we will try to answer in this article. We cannot forget the importance of ideological aspects in order to understand the beginning of the Cold War. Nevertheless, this work will focus more in other aspects, as said above, that will allow us to know better why the U.S. decided "to contain" and not" to understand" the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. It is important to say that this article is based mainly on American sources and authors.