Cold War

The Cold War was a war that literally wasn’t typical war. There weren’t any fighter planes flying over countries dropping bombs, no tanks no ground troops, no actually deployment of missile, and no ground troops. However there were a stockpile of nuclear weapons, money was being spent like an actually War was being fought, propaganda, and there were two superpower enemies but no actually fighting occurred. The Cold War (CW) was a big arms race that was started after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR). There were two dominant powers fighting to become the dominant power. The world became bipolar because of this war. The CW was the war between ideologyies, Democracy and Communism.

Introduction………………………………………………………………………..3
Chapter I. Causes of the Cold War………………………………………………..5
1.1Underlying causes
1.2 Immediate causes leading to the Cold War
Chapter II. Beginning of the Cold War………………………………………….9
2.1 Soviet control of Eastern Europe
2.2 The Cold War in East Asia
Chapter III. The formation of military alliances………………………………12
3.1 N.A.T.O and the Warsaw Pact
Chapter IV. Voltage drop……………………………………………………….15
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………..17
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