To understand the views of different authors on the cold war we must first get a general understanding of the topic. The cold war between the United States and the USSR never involved actual fighting between the two sid

es. It was an arms race and a struggle between political ideals namely communism and capitalism. Both sides spent millions of dollars, investing money in countries to strengthen their world position. The US had its Marshall plan in which it gave aid to rebuild European Economies after WW2. The USSR spent millions on other communist countries such as Afghanistan, Mozambique, North Korea, Cuba and North Vietnam. At the height of this were the nuclear weapons they had pointed at each other, each with the ability to destroy the other a thousand times over.

During the cold war there were numerous events that sparked conflict between the two great superpowers, different historians have varying views on these events. From conflicts such as the Berlin blockade to MRBM (Medium Range Ballistic Missiles) in Turkey, the Vietnam War and the Middle East were all sources of tension during the cold war. Perhaps the closest the superpowers came to an all out nuclear war was the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.

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