Who Won the Cold War

The Cold War is something that everyone has heard about yet most of us have no clue what the war was really about or why it was started or for that fact who even won the war. The Cold War involved just about the whole world but mainly the United States and Russia. After reading LeFaber, listening to lectures, and doing some research I have come to the conclusion that there was no winner nor …

…had maintained peace by not beginning World War III, which was one of the main goals of the Cold War. As said in LaFaber, “Co-existance is not only the absence of war between the two systems, but also peaceful economic competition between them, and concrete cooperation in economic, political and cultural area”(LaFaber, 192). This quote pretty much sums up the goals of the Cold War, the only thing being accomplished was the avoidance of WWIII.