... submit to a system of UN control and inspection before the US would destroy its own atomic arsenal. Soviets rejected proposal. Mutual hostility escalated and Soviets and American rushed to develop doomsday weapons. 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 Europe so he comprised ... the Marshall Plan that would help the hungry and homeless in all European countries. ...

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... 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 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 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 reduc...

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... 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 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 ... ...

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