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Gened 111-16 The cold war
The Cold War was out broke between the 1940s to the 1990s. It was the conflict between the United States and the USSR together with their respective allies. The powers at war engaged in boosting their respective defense systems that led to massive spending of their national resources.( Ronald 157) The Cold War was surely expressed through in many areas, according to Ronald Kidd(2009), author of The year of the bomb, “ propaganda, military coalitions, weapons development, espionage, industrial advances as well as technological development. Such activities successfully heightened further competition and tension between the warring parties.” At the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, several counties including the Soviet Union suffered serious economic stagnation as a direct result of investment in the cold war. The influences of the war are profound and lasting, and these caused the final collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, leaving the US as one and only superpower. This long drawn out seesaw battle exerted serious impact on the world.
The Cold War generally means the great difference between the Western factions (led by the United States) and the Eastern factions (led by the Soviet Union). It started ever since the Second World War was over and Truman entered into the White House. From the reason analysis, the reasons caused to the cold war can be divided the short-term and long-term. According to Katherine A S Sibley (1998), author of The Cold War. “The short-term causes of the Cold War basically relate to the ways in which the Soviet Union and the United States wished to shape the post-war world. Although the Yalta and the Potsdam Conferences had given the Americans, the British, and the Soviets different spheres of interests or influence it soon became apparent that only the Soviet Union and the United States could be considered to be global