... power imbalances. Economic pressure, nuclear intimidation, propaganda, and subversion, rather than military confrontation characterized the conflict between US and SU. In June of 1946, Truman submitted to the UN an atomic-energy control plan requiring the SU to stop all work on nuclear weapons and to submit to a system of UN control and inspection before the US would destroy its own atomic ... . Truman outlined the Truman Doctrine, which laid the foundation for American Cold war policy that would endure for much of the next 4 decades. Truman wanted to end the economic devastation in Euro...

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... . It was nothing more than the propaganda of two battling super powers. The two super powers involved in the Cold War were The United States of America and The Soviet Union. The two countries were constantly battling over who is the most powerful on the planet. The supposed threats were mere techniques of propaganda used to scare the other countries public into ... . This was the only actual fighting that occurred. The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile ...

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... reserves to out power one and another. Both sides realized that having so many giant missiles in their country could be a target for the other side's missiles. Fearing attacks on their missile reserves both sides starting building interceptor missiles. This merely allowed a greater store of ballistic missiles in both countries. By this time both the US and the former Soviet Union had so ... reduce the amount of ballistic missile defenses, which the US hoped would reduce the amount of Ballistic Missiles. Their reasoning being a reduction in defenses would lessen the offensive reserves. Th...

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