... 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 ... place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile instalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these missile installments from satellite imagery that show...

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Another war developed almost immediately after WWII, known as the COLD WAR. It 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 cons...

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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 one and another. Both sides realized that having so many giant missiles in their country could be a target for the other side ... 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 wa...

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