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¶ … Cold War It is important to note from the onset that the Cold War was not essentially a war that involved conventional military weaponry. It was a war that largely involved the utilization of surrogates, propaganda, and economics -- it was a war of words. In that regard therefore, the Cold War was in basic terms the uneasy relationship that primarily developed between the U.S.S.R. And the U.S.A. after the end of the Second World War (Goff, et al. 2008). The Cold War was caused by a variety of factors. In this text, I will analyze two of the many events that may have, in one way or another, deepened the Cold War.

To begin with, the People's Republic of China-Soviet Union alliance "signed during the Moscow meetings between Stalin and Chinese leader Mao Zedong in February 1950, was one of the cornerstones of the early Cold War and one of the causes of the Korean War" (Hanhimaki and Westad, 2004, p.176). Having lasted...

It was after this invasion that the United Nations deemed it fit to act by amongst other things instituting 'police action' against those it deemed to be the aggressors. It is important to note that at in this case, although Russia and America did not engage in direct conflict, client states of both countries did indeed clash -- the American-backed south and the Russian-backed north.
Yet another event that in a way accelerated the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the discovery of nuclear missiles in Cuba, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union spiked with the U.S. threatening to launch…

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Goff, R., Moss, W., Terry, J., Upshur, J., & Schroeder, M. (2008). The Twentieth Century and Beyond - A Global History (7th Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Hanhimaki, J.S. & Westad, O.A. (Eds.). (2004). The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness Accounts. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Philips, S. (2001). The Cold War: Conflict in Europe and Asia. Burlington, MA: Heinemann.
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