... 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 ... 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 the country and the U.S would take a side and The Soviet Union would take a side and they ... would use the country as a battle ...

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... 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 ... of Ballistic Missiles. Their reasoning being a reduction in defenses would lessen the offensive reserves. The anti-ballistic missile treaty...

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... 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 ... 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, propaganda, and subversion, rather than military confro...

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