Cold War - The Changing Relationship of the Superpowers :: American America History

Cold War - The Changing Relationship of the SuperpowersThe United States and Soviet Union, the integrity most important rivalry of the twentieth century, started as a partnership. This sarcasm was caused by the fact that the Germans were taking over Europe, which strengthd them in this relationship. in one case Hitler was eliminated and Berlin destroyed, the tensions began rising. These two nations had completely opposite ideologies from the economic system to the political system. The ever-changing relationship has evolved from a forced partnership, a possible creation state of state of struggle and now finally a steadying friendship. The entire world was observation as the Cold War went from moments of dtente, to hours at the brink of world war three. The Germans and the Russian had an alliance at the beginning of the war further Hitler turned on the Soviets. This caused the Soviets to join the British and American side and conduct the advance on Germany from two fronts. T he German war machine unbroken this alliance at bay only for so long earlier the two nations destroyed Berlin. The Soviets were already keeping control of all that was eastward of Germany, and this was causing the United States great anxiety due to the fact that collectivism was spreading. A great sense of relief came to the United States as the thermonuclear Age began with the Manhattan Project and the Bombing of Japan. Stalin was now afraid that the United States would one-day force capitalist ideas upon Mother Russia, until the most intriguing aspect of the cold war came along, spies. A great change came when in the early 1950s the Soviets started testing their witness nuclear weapon system. The United States could not understand how they had their own nuclear weapon so quickly the answer today is so simple the plans were stolen. wholly aspects of life for the United States and the Soviets were to beat each other. Tensions stayed high in the Olympics, the piazza race, IC BMs, the Korean and Vietnam wars. The highest point of tension during the entire Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. Up until this point the Soviet sphere of influence did not reach into the Western Hemisphere except for the spies. Castro had now changed this paradigm, allowing Soviet missiles to be set-up in Cuba. This is the point at which most people believed we were closest to a total Nuclear War. The real protection from this possible total war was known as MAD.