Tension During The Cold War Between 1953-1960

The Cold War was a state of tension after World War II between the Soviet Union and the United States. The war began in 1947 and concluded in 1991. During the Cold War the USSR was able to tell a Soviet passport from a forged passport by the staples. The staples in real passports were specially designed. During the Cold War Congress added “Under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance to symbolize the resistance to atheists.

However, the Cold War changed significantly when Joseph Stalin died of a stroke in 1953. Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1928 to the day he died in 1953. Stalin’s death led to a temporary thaw in the Cold War tensions. When Stalin died, Nikita Khrushchev took power over the Soviet Union. It looked as if the new era was brewing between the East and the West. Khrushchev then

The U.S. and U.S.S.R began to develop tension toward each other. Both sides completely had no trust in each other, this is a major reason there was tensions between the two. The Soviet Union thought that the United States was trying to takeover the world. The United States thought the same about the Soviet Union. There were threats of nuclear warfare which startled them both. Thousands of missiles were ready to fire on both sides. The threat was serious and if it would have taken place, the world would have been destroyed.

Another cause of tension between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R was the Soviet Union wanting capitalism destroyed. The U.S. system was ran by capitalism and it set off major tension when the U.S.S.R tried to destroy capitalism. The U.S.S.R actually accused the U.S. of influencing other nations to run their economy with capitalism. Both sides thought there political systems were superior and that they were always right. Along with everything, the U.S.S.R was trying to spread communism, which the U.S. was against. This caused more arguments and tension between the