Tensions In The Cold War

The tensions in the Cold War were caused by a lot of things, these things ranging from competition to political differences. One main tension between the two countries was their economic systems. Both thought the others were evil, both had some facts to back up their claims. Yes there is social class division in pure capitalism and yes there is less motivation to work hard in pure communism, but that does not make the entire system inherently evil. The differences in communism and capitalism caused the tensions seen in the Cold War because America and Soviet Union were locked in a competition to see whose society was better, ranging from scientific advancement, arms race, and through the dominance of their economic system.

One way to measure the strength of your society is your technological advancement. The Soviets started by launching Sputnik, a ball of metal that produced a beeping sound. To Americans, that beeping sound was the beep of dread. Each beep a reminder of how the Americans had been beat to space. Then a dog, then a man. America kept trying to catch up, but the

If trying to be the Super-est of World Superpowers wasn’t enough, you can also try to get the rest of the world to agree with your political ideas by giving them money and weapons if they promise to not listen to the other country and stay on the “good” side of the economic spectrum. Most counties picked a side and got the benefits. What followed was a mess of alliances as bad as before WW1, where one assassination led to the biggest war yet seen. But this time, there were nuclear weapons involved, which probably could’ve potentially brought almost all the countries into WW3, but it luckily didn’t. Nevertheless, these situations had a lasting effect on the world with the divide of economic systems going deeper than the economics, especially between the US and Russia, causing a conflict lasted about 45 years, almost half of the 19th