Factors contributing to Cold War tensions

Factors Contributing to Cold War Tensions

The Cold War is generally known phenomenon of confrontation between two systems : capitalism and communism , the West and the East . Although it sounds almost as white and black , good and back this confrontation was very controversial from both sides . The time period of the Cold War lasted from the end of the Second World War and until 1990s . The main opponents in this confrontation were two superpowers : the United States of America and the Soviet Union . The Cold War phenomenon influenced immensely both political and economical

life of these two states Moreover , it also made a great impact on social life of American and Soviet people . Ideology of Cold War as well as propaganda were used much to brainwash ' the population of two opponent countries . The hostility of one nation towards another was fed by the governments of both states The fact that these peoples were not hostile or aggressive towards each other was covered by another phenomenon called iron curtain . Iron curtain prevented direct communication between peoples of the states who were in the Cold War . In the Soviet Union , for example , there were jammers - the devices that made artificial radio noise (radio interference ) to prevent the Soviet people from listening to the Western radio stations like the Voice of America

The aims at analyzing the factors - economic , political and social - that contributed to the escalation of Cold War tensions in the 1970s and early 1980s . This period is generally characterized as highly controversial . It was neither the peak of confrontation of two states nor was it the period of dytente . However , the beginning of this period may be characterized as the attempt of establishing some kind of relations (signing peace and disarmament treaties - SALT-I and SALT-II and the end of this period is highly provocative from the side of the Soviet Union (The Soviet invasion to Afghanistan in December 1979 . The latter tension was supported by the United States in the way it boycotted the Olympics of 1980 in Moscow . Political , social and economic factors are analyzed in this in the way they worsened the stability of relations between Washington and Moscow , and the escalation of the Cold War tensions is the objective of the research

American dytente had been the product of two factors . The first was the need to find a way of mitigating the global impact of defeat in , and withdrawal from , Vietnam . The second was the emergence of an approximate technical and numerical parity in American and Soviet strategic nuclear forces and , indeed , in military power more generally . These two factors complemented each other but the most important was the relatively short-term Vietnam problem . This problem was definitively solved ' by the 1973 Paris accords or , at the very latest , by the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam in 1975 . At the end of the Nixon era and in the first year of the Ford administration Henry Kissinger , combining the offices of Secretary of State and...