The Cold War - US and Russia

The Cold war, which lasted from 1947 to 1991, was a conflict amongst the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US) to establish the worlds superpower. The wake of World War 2 left both(prenominal) the Soviet Union and the United States as the two most compelling countries in the world, but they were diametric opposites. Capitalist America felt up very threatened by communist Russia, and tension and miscommunication lead to military, political, and economic struggles. The unique position of this war is that there was no direct military use whatsoever. Although nuclear threats were made by both countries, there was non one recorded casualty. However, Americans and Russians lived in constant fear, their only tribute being the process of containment in order to prevent reciprocally Assured Destruction (Hewitt 807)\nThe head start to test an atomic break was the United States, on July 15, 1945. in brief after, on August sixth and 9th, we dropped two bombs in japan to end the Pacific War. Russia felt very threatened by this, and by 1949 they had and reinforced and tried their own atomic bomb. In order to one-up the Soviets, the US created and tried the worlds start enthalpy bomb in 1952. Three years later, the USSR unsurprisingly built and tested their own hydrogen bomb. Neither of the countries spoke rough this, but they both knew what they some other had. Some historians argue that the main cause of the Cold War was the lack of communication between the US and the Soviets, therefore both countries shared responsibility. The inaugural marked tensions began to surface during the 1945 Potsdam Conference, when President plague Truman informed Premier Joseph Stalin that the first atomic bomb had been successfully tested three years earlier. This wasnt new parole to Stalin, thanks to the Soviet experience network. The United States falsely fake that this information would mean they would be given more bargain power, but Stalin held fir m his positions an...