cold war

During the period of the Cold War, the world’s two superpowers, America and the Soviet Union, exploited every aspect of national life and policy in their countries for purposes of propaganda. The Cold War was “a war fought with propaganda and economic weapons, stopping short of military confrontation, as between the USA and the USSR after 1945.” After World War II Stalin achieved domination over many of the countries of Eastern Europe in late 1945 creating …

…beliefs and it was considered “unamerican” to have them. People could lose their jobs and Americans who were found guilty of providing secret information to the soviets could have had such an extreme punishment as execution. “Each contained the other until there gradually developed something of a mutual understanding. The basis of this coexistence was an unwritten but apparent acceptance that, in Europe at least, neither side would trespass on the territories of the other.”