It has been 25 years since the end of the Cold war, the silent battle between the West Capitalism and Russian communism. The ever constant threat of MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction) created the American culture of the fifties and so on. Those born into it were used to the bomb shelters, space race and the constant détente. The conflict of two political and ideological ideas that control most of the world will affect most of what the world would have been today. The surge and rise of massive military programs and the Romanization of the American life has had many forget the fear and stress many had felt. The cold war was about controlling the future of others and assuring that one would survive, using the military to deter one another. This
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In the end of world war 2, the allies were closing in on Berlin, the last major stronghold of the Nazis. The Soviet Union, which was a communistic government and greatly military which was consider the East, a single party of communism and a direct command administration of the economy which was highly valued, would the opposite of the west. With the West, the ideas and concepts of a market economy and a multi-party democracy were saw as necessity for the better of society. the capitalistic and promoter of freedom would soon clash with one another. The US soon would drop the atomic bomb and end the war, this would lead to two powers, opposite of one another, with profound economic and political differences. Both hated one another, but fear one another, once the Soviet Union was able to produce nuclear bombs, this put them on the same level has the US, neither went for a full scale warfare, rather it relied on using others on proxy wars, it was in a form of betting for without fully losing. All to defend their way of life and thinking. The apparent conflict of ideas and obscene nature of those who defended them, were only driving force behind the Cold War even further. The two leaders on both sides were too ambitious of expanding their ideological policies. For example, the famous Marshall Plan has been seen as a capitalist plan to gain support from the western part of Europe and then catch the attention from the oppress
In the end of world war 2, the allies were closing in on Berlin, the last major stronghold of the Nazis. The Soviet Union, which was a communistic government and greatly military which was consider the East, a single party of communism and a direct command administration of the economy which was highly valued, would the opposite of the west. With the West, the ideas and concepts of a market economy and a multi-party democracy were saw as necessity for the better of society. the capitalistic and promoter of freedom would soon clash with one another. The US soon would drop the atomic bomb and end the war, this would lead to two powers, opposite of one another, with profound economic and political differences. Both hated one another, but fear one another, once the Soviet Union was able to produce nuclear bombs, this put them on the same level has the US, neither went for a full scale warfare, rather it relied on using others on proxy wars, it was in a form of betting for without fully losing. All to defend their way of life and thinking. The apparent conflict of ideas and obscene nature of those who defended them, were only driving force behind the Cold War even further. The two leaders on both sides were too ambitious of expanding their ideological policies. For example, the famous Marshall Plan has been seen as a capitalist plan to gain support from the western part of Europe and then catch the attention from the oppress