Origins and Events of the Cold War

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This paper explores the origins, history and events of the Cold War. This paper examines the economic system differences between the two sides as the primary points of contention, suspicion and conflict. This paper states that, during the Cold War, the Soviet Union was never a match for the United States; the Soviet Union's technology and weaponry was a generation behind and, most strikingly, it was influenced heavily and kept in check by the United States itself.

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"The Soviet Union propped up communist sympathetic states throughout the world including Cuba, Vietnam and Korea; but these states never developed independent or self-sufficient economies or political structures, unlike the puppet states supported by the United States. In February 1948, a coup toppled the democratically elected leaders of Czechoslovakia, the last of the Eastern European nations to maintain political independence from the Soviet Union. Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and now Czechoslovakia were absorbed into the Soviet orbit."

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