Cold War Over the Years, an Intricate

Cold War

Over the years, an intricate relationship of ideological, political and economic factors leading to changes between careful teamwork and frequent unpleasant superpower competition was driving the affairs between the Soviet Union and the United States. There was some opinion that the Cold War started even before the end of the World War II. When the atomic bombs were tested first in New Mexico and then on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by that time United States and USSR were in the hub of shaping up the earlier Axis territories. Thus, both the Nuclear Age and the nuclear arms race that arouses the Cold War began simultaneously. (The Cold War: (http://www.nuclearfiles.org)

The two countries were time and again disallowed from achieving a shared agreement on major policy matters due to the specific differences, like in the case of the Cuban missile emergency that brought them to the verge of war. (The Soviet Union and the United States) Many unfavorable situations were generated by the hostility during the Cold War. All through the world, the effects of the Cold War were spread out like radiations from the atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. In the 1950's regarding the Soviet's 'war without borders' there were tensions in the U.S. which resulted in the House Committee on Un-American activities attack on Communism in American culture. Stalin's strong rule and ethos of bigotry resulted in millions of deaths in the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union positioned the nuclear weapons 90 miles off the coast of Florida in Cuba, there was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. After wavering for thirteen days the nuclear war came to an end with a clandestine accord in which the Soviet Union agreed to remove their weaponry out of Cuba and the U.S. assured to take away their weaponry from Turkey after six months. (The Cold War: (http://www.nuclearfiles.org)

On both sides, the philosophies included an idea of world supremacy. Besides, the U.S. military or industrial complex 'Domino Theory'- the apprehension that if any single country becomes Communist it would direct their neighbors to back the lead and to increase regional unsteadiness- which resulted in many military battles- including the Vietnam War which were in turn financed and supported by both Superpowers. (The Cold War: (http://www.nuclearfiles.org) Conflict between the two countries was created by the Soviet attitude on human rights and its attack of Afghanistan in 1979. These conflicts prolonged till the remarkable democratic changes of 1989-91, which resulted in the fall down of the Communist order. (The Soviet Union and the United States)