... 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 believing they were more powerful. Over and over again the U.S would flex its muscles and then The Soviet Union would flex it's muscles until ... a side and The Soviet Union would take a side and they would use the country as a battle ground. This was the only actual fighting that occurred. The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the col...

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... 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 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 ... ballistic missiles in both countries. By this 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 n...

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... 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, 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 arsenal. Soviets rejec...

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