The Cold War

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This paper explains that the Nuclear Age, the nuclear arms race, and the Cold War began simultaneously, even before the end of the World War II, when the United States and USSR were at the hub of reshaping the earlier Axis territories. The author explains that the military expenses of the Cold War were a great burden to both sides; for the Soviet Union, its vast military power and expense meant that its people resided in underprivileged conditions, and in the United States, the military expenses exhausted the capital and aptitude that could have been used for the private financial system. The paper relates that, as the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union increased, it was apparent that the US had a definite technological advantage.

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"The two countries were time and again disallowed from achieving a shared agreement on major policy matters due to the specific differences, like in the case of the Cuban missile emergency that brought them to the verge of war. (The Soviet Union and the United States) Many unfavorable situations were generated by the hostility during the Cold War. All through the world, the effects of the Cold War were spread out like radiations from the atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. In the 1950's regarding the Soviet's 'war without borders' there were tensions in the US which resulted in the House Committee on Un-American activities attack on Communism in American culture."

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