Contributions of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the Cold War
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Contributions of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to the Cold War
Through an analysis of the Soviet Union’s perspective of communist-based system, the United States technological advance in manufacture of atomic bombs and missiles to bring the rest of the world to their knees, and post war estrangement of the Eastern European nations by the Soviets; this paper argues that cold war was totally inevitable. Cold war refers to an era of competition, tension and conflict only without real war, between the East and the West; associated with mutual percept of ill intentions between military-political coalitions. In the year 1945, the Soviet Union and the United States had forged great friendship due to their joint efforts to triumph over Nazi regime in the Second World War. The outstanding political, economic and ideological divergence of these two nations frequently barred them from arriving at a consensus on major policy issues as some almost brought them to the verge of war. ("The Soviet Union and the United States - Revelations from the Russian Archives | Exhibitions - Library of Congress", 2016)
Initially, the government of United States was unfriendly to the Soviet Union rulers for withdrawing Russia out of the First World War and was against their communism-based ideology. United States government later was offering relief program to the famine in the Soviet Union around 1920s. The two countries forged diplomatic relations later in the year 1933. However, the totalitarianism of Joseph Stalin’s government towards Eastern Europe resulted to tensions between these two countries as the United States advocated for democratic nations. The Soviet Union had also proclaimed peaceful coexistence policy but its growing subjection and later invasion of Afghanistan in