foreign policy, was in a hurry to organize the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform) in September 1947, which supported communist political organizations across Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union, as one countermeasure to U.S. assistance to European nations and suspected вЂњthat it was directed against Soviet influence in East Europe and the anti-capitalist road that was being taken in those countriesвЂќ (Roberts 1994). Soon after the Marshal Plan was announced in April 1948, the Soviet Union Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed a new plan to aid nations politically and economically in Eastern Europe. The year of 1947 seemed a turning point that changed international relations in a decisive way, especially between the U.S. The Truman Doctrine, nonetheless, was linked to Secretary George MarshallвЂ™s proposal in June 1947 for вЂњthe extension of massive economic assistance to the devastated nations of EuropeвЂќ (Trask 1981). helping Greece and Turkey was intended to rebuild each nationвЂ™s devastated economy but also indicated a determined lack of fear of direct confrontations with the Soviet Union. In March 1947, President Truman announced his support for Greece and Turkey to contain increasing communist influences on European nations. U.S.вЂ“SovietвЂ™ relations had never been worse than at that moment, with each of them building their blocs rapidly after the end of the Second World War. In it, Kennan emphasized the Unite StatesвЂ™ role вЂњin Europe at least.вЂќ A month after the telegram was transmitted, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (U.K.) Winston Churchill pointed out the necessity of containing the Soviet Union in the so-called вЂњIron Curtain Speech,вЂќ which followed the same line of thought as Kennan. George KennanвЂ™s long telegram in February 1946, for instance, where he evidently suggested: вЂњformulate and put forward for other nations a much more positive and constructive picture of sort of worldвЂќ (Kennan 1946), was covertly sent to the United States Department of State. Meanwhile, in East Asia, many nations were determined to join one of the blocs and were simultaneously struggling with the issue of independence from their former colonial powers.Д«efore the discussion about the formulation of the Cold War in East Asia, I will briefly describe the situation in Europe in an international context since the end of the Second World War. When the Second World War was concluding, however, cracks in their co-operation had become apparent. and Soviet Union collaborated to defeat the axis nations even though the Soviet government had made a peace treaty with Germany at the very beginning of the war. In fact, during the Second World War, the U.S. Depending on how one interprets the war, the starting date remains debatable. In an international context, however, the war ultimately emerged from tensions between the United States (U.S.) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R., Soviet) at the end of the Second World War, but it can also be said that the war was a conflict between capitalism and socialism. When the Cold War initially began has been a controversy for some time, as Professor John Lewis GaddisвЂ™ research on the major events of the Cold War indicates, stating that it originally appeared following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia (Gaddis 2005). However, it examines the reality of the Cold War in East Asia by focusing on facts at four levels, namely, divided nations due to a civil or full-scale war, competition in building collective security co-operation between communist and capitalist blocs, nuclear arms race, and an examination of differences in economic aspects between Europe and East Asia and among countries in East Asia. The paper is built on a previous research rather than a novel observation. Many nations were divided into two blocs and were built on collective security co-operation and simultaneously fought colonialism.

In East Asia, the majority of nations split and, in certain cases, conflicts developed into a civil war or a full-scale war. However, since then, regional circumstances were disparate, and uncertainties prevailed in each nation or region. Although actual military conflicts between the two superpowers never erupted during the Cold War era, several confrontations between nations from different blocs occurred after the end of the Second World War. The Cold War originally was a result of the tension between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics due to differing political ideologies and economic systems. The study aims to clarify how the Cold War in East Asia was formulated in an international context.

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