Cold war

Cold war

Cold war preceded World War. The war lasted from 1945 to 1980s. The conflict was between the US and the Soviet Union.  Unlike other wars, this war was fought without the use of weapons of mass destruction.   The war extended to many other states, including neutral and independent countries such as African nations and Asian countries.

Different reasons contributed to the break of the cold war. Some of the reasons included differences in social, economic, and political ideologies between the US and the Soviet Union.  The two countries had different systems of government. For instance, in the US, the government is elected through a democratic process and there is freedom for any person to join any political party and voice their political opinions at will. However, in the Soviet Union government is based on communist ideologies. The US engaged in the war to safeguard capitalist, which the Soviet Union opposed.

On economic ideologies, the US T agitated for free trade while on the other hand; Soviet Union was opposed to international trade as this could have affected or interfered with their regimes and erodes their values and beliefs. Therefore, this contributed to the continued cold war as every side fought to safeguard its interest. Furthermore, the end of Europe power led to rivalry between the US and Soviet Union. The two countries fought for supremacy and dominance.

Question

Cold war was a different kind of war. State some of the methods used in the war and how the methods adopted successful helped the US in winning the war. In your own opinion, do you think that the causes that led to the break of the war valid?

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