Clea Gaddis's The Cold War: A New History

The Cold War: A New History is about the Cold War, which occurred after the Second World War. The book explains when it “started”, when it ended, and the events that occurred between 1947 – 1991. This war had no clear indication of when it began, for there no treaties being broken, no declaration of battle or of a war. But this time period was of a tension of political and military, for the leaders of Western bloc and Eastern bloc were on the edge of the Second World War. The Cold War was a war of principles, morals, and of economics. As well as, it was a nuclear race to see which country had the most nuclear war in case of yet another war. Many of the events that happened during this 45 year period revolutionized the ethics that were integrated into the foundation of many countries. This period opened various eyes of the public and for the first time, they saw how menacing was the threat of another superpower that could rival the Land of the Free. Therefore, this war was communism (The Soviet Union) vs. capitalism (The United States of America). After President Roosevelt had died, President Truman took power and ended World War II. Truman wanted to …show more content…
The book was written in chapters but in those chapters was divided into sections. Each section wrote about the current superpowers at the time (the United States and the Soviet Union) and how each was battling the political and geopolitical warfare at the time. Each chapter talked about different incidents of the Cold War and what each leader did towards the event. As well as, the effects that the leaders of the Soviet Union and The United States of America had on each event and their role. Gaddis probably wrote his book in this way to so he may transition from subject to subject without going off topic about the current chapter’s