The Cold War

The Cold War The Cold War, the tern Cold War is used to describe the post- World War II struggle between the United States and its allies, also The Soviet Union and its allies#. During the Cold War era which lasted from the mid 1940’s all the way through the late 1980’s , two major political beliefs were involve in the Cold War , Democracy which was the US and its allies, and communism which was the …

…Chinese leader Mao Zendong took over. The Soviets first tested there atomic bomb that same year#, by the development of the atomic bomb it gave the Soviets more confidence that they were at the same level of the US. They began to have a competition with the US, and they didn’t stop the developing nuclear weapons, they wanted to be the top guns and sooner or later spread their communist ways to the US.