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COLD WAR

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Cold War

The cold war period started after the Second World War in 1945 . It was a period of extended tension , conflict and stiff competition between the two nations that emerged , as superpowers in the 2nd world war and these were the Soviet Union and the United States of America . It started immediately the war was over and continued up to the 1991 . The cold war involved carrying out of political affairs without any engagement in direct military confrontation . Its origin was the

disagreement that resulted over how Germany was to be reconstructed after the world war two . At first it was fought between Europe and America but with time it spread to every part of the world . To my point of view the United States was more responsible for the war than the Soviet Union and the war was as a result of mutual antagonism as opposed to a simple mutual misconception . The main focus of this will be to analyse the underlying causes of this war and how it was fought . The cold war can be traced to mistrust that existed between the USSR and the western nations during the Russian revolution of 1917 . This mutual disagreement continued up to the post war period over restructuring of Europe after the Second World War . The two nations held on strongly to their hard line positions for example USA in accordance with the Atlantic charter that was signed sometimes back in 1941 between United Kingdom and United States of America clashed with USSR over the policies . USA strongly advocated for self-determination for all countries especially those that had been victimised by Germany but USSR disagreed on this for it believed that if these nations were allowed to be free then they would retaliate against USSR . USSR deemed the Eastern Europe as its sphere of influence and wanted to take a portion of Germany 's reparations . Both USA and USSR asserted their points by embarking on different principles . For example pursed what could be seen as a containment of policy dubbed as the Marshal Plan while its counterpart hit back by coming up with Comecon plan . The former was meant to uplift the status of the Western Europe from the economic recession after the Second World War . This program at first was called the European recovery program . It was a US sponsored program geared to help the seventeen Western Europe nations as well as those countries in the southern Europe so as to create a good environment for democracy to take off but its counterpart the USSR came up with its own plan for challenging the marshal plan . This plan basically coordinated all the economic plan of the Eastern Europe members . Everybody thought that after the Second World War both super powers would continue working hand in hand though this is not what happened . The friction between the USSR and the USA started even before the war was over . The United States regarded USSR as...

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