Although the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was friendly during the time of World War two, the Soviet Union and the US were allied during World War two, based on the common aim of defeating Nazi Germany. this is because their alliance was essential to defeating Nazi Germany, as the US and Great Britain both needed a strong power at the eastern frontiers of Germany to secure Nazi defeat. At this point in the war, it was beneficial for both the soviet union and the united states to enter into an alliance with each other since the Soviet Union was under attack by the Nazis, and the United States and its allies needed another strong ally. it seems like both countries had trouble accepting the ideology of the other, as they each had completly different political policies and types of governments, but were trying to attempt accepting each other for the sake of defeating the Nazis and ending the war on the European frontier. This relationship between the two nations, and the shared sacrifices, eventually led to the end of world two in the western frontier as Germany was drained on both fronts. This relationship that was based on benefit would end the war, as the two nations will have different opinions regarding postwar issues.
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04/12/2011
On this date, a century and a half ago, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, on an island off the coast of South Carolina. The Confederate States of America asserted not only their right to secede but also to claim federal property within their borders. The newly inaugurated U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, rejected both claims and refused to evacuate Sumter.
“Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy,” Lincoln had said in his somber inaugural address a month earlier. “A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left.”
The Civil War, to Lincoln, was never technically a “war” but an illegal and unconstitutional rebellion and a fight to put down the rebellion. The details of the events leading to the firing on Fort Sumter have much to do with this attitude and with his total rejection of the possibility of secession.
By attempting to resupply Sumter, Lincoln succeeded in forcing the Confederacy to fire the first shots. Lincoln had to accept the loss of Sumter soon after. But he was successful, so to speak, in forcing the other side to start the shooting. Lincoln believed that justified the military actions that he subsequently ordered to put down the rebellion.
