After the second World War the world was dominated by two superpowers; the USA and the USSR. “The Cold War was a result of this division of power and of the important policy of spheres of influence. In the post WWII-era the Americans thought that the Russians were aiming to incorporate Western Europe (the US & British sphere of

influence) into their sphere of influence (Eastern Europe) by supporting the communists in

these countries. Their fears were enforced when a coup substituted communist for

coalition rule in Prague. In this ideologically hostile environment the Cold War began.

(p.15).” That showed the main reasons that the two countries could’ve gone to war for.

Pretty small disputes to warrant a nuclear war.

The cold war was characterised by th

ideology or beliefs (except around the Middle East where idealogy and religion still play a

for the bare necessities of life, e.g. Bread, soared up. People could not just buy bread

between the world, but only in terms of arms, not in terms of ideology”(p.58). That

powerful weapons which were too dangerous to be used in battle, but which contributed

When, during the 1980´s, Gorbachev was in power, he signed several

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