... presented any real threat on America. 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 ... and over again the U.S would flex its muscles and then The Soviet Union would flex it's muscles until eventually one country couldn't. The Cold War lasted a very long time and it was fought through battles such as the Korean War and Vietnam. Each battle split...

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... included US, Great Britain, and Soviet Union that lasted from the 1940s to the late 1980's. 3 Schools of thought were created as to what caused the cold war between the US and SU. The orthodox (traditional) consider Soviet Union imperialism the case. The second thought, the revisionist (during Vietnam) consider US to blame for hostility generated bc US ... had desire to prevent revolutionary movements that threaten economic status. The 3rd, the tragic or inevitable, sees the cold war as unavoidable or natural consequence of power imbalances. Economic pressure, nuclear intimidation, prop...

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The anti-ballistic missile treaty was a result from the cold war, bipolarity and the technology at the time. The idea being that since both the Soviet Union and the United States were building their ballistic missile defense reserves to out power ... time both the US and the former Soviet Union had so many ballistic missiles that the US sought a treaty with the Soviet Union to prevent Massive destruction from a devastating nuclear war. The treaty would reduce the amount of ballistic missile defenses, which the US hoped would reduce the amount of Ballistic Missiles. Their reasoning being a re...

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