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Cold War
Cold War Thesis: the United States is the reason for
the fall of the USSR by attempting to contain the spread of communism
before -World War II-The Soviet Union and the United States had fought as allies against Nazi Germany during this time
who
United states and USSR
What Happened Growing out of post-World War II tensions between the two nations, the Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that lasted for much of the second half of the 20th century resulted in mutual suspicions, heightened tensions and a series of international incidents that brought the world’s superpowers to the brink of disaster.
-clashing ideological systems: communism and capitalism.
-confrontation between the USA and the USSR escalated to the nuclear level, and humanity trembled at the prospect of a global nuclear catastrophe.
when
-1945 to 1991
Us presidents
-Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan
ussr leaders
Stalin (1928 - 1953)
Collective Leadership (1953 - 1956)
Khrushchev (1956 - 1964)
Collective Leadership (1964 - 1971)
Brezhnev (1971 - 1982)
Andropov (1982 - 1984)
Chernenko (1984 - 1985)
Gorbachev (1985 - 1991) Spellbound · 3 years
Extra facts; -Russia had maps so detailed during the war, ships use them now.-The cold war costed the United States about 8 trillion dollarsThe cold war military expenditures made the US have to pay so much money. -At one point there were more communists on the United States side then the USSR’s side.-Henry Kissinger penned a memo to Nixon calling China “a tacit ally” swinging 870 million communists to the United States side.
