propaganda rather than weapons, because both sides feared nuclear war. It started in the mid 40's after WWII had left Europe in shambles and Russia and the USA in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash of these super giants in political, ideological, military, and economic values and ideas. Though military build up was great on both sides neither one ever directly fought each other. In this essay I'm going to talk about: the rise of the Cold War, the

events in and because of the Cold War, and the fall of Russia.

Again Germany had been thorough in its plans of total domination. It had been a combined effort by all the Western powers and a few Eastern powers too. England was devastated, France had been literally burnt to the ground, and many small nation had suffered economic failure. To the East Russia had suffered many losses from the vain siege of the Nazi's. But they were in better shape then Europe. They still had a milita

on Western Berlin. The Russians threatened, and did, block of supply routs to Western Berlin. The people in the city were starving and dying from lack of supplies. Because of this the US had to make periodic supply drops into the city. Some other examples are the Cuban missile crises, where the Russian funded

In the late 40's through early 50's the Soviet Union started to spread and move in the westward position. In 1948 the United States launched the $13 billion Marshall Plan to rebuild Western and Central Europe. USSR in turn brought forth its own funding called the Molotov Plan. Because of that, they were able to spread communism through many countries. Some of these nations were: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Eastern Germany, and numerous countries in Southeastern Asia. But on the US side they had the support from almost the entire Western Europe. So the tension started, between Western Europe or a republic society and Eastern Europe and communism.

Cuban military had secretly made or smuggled nuclear missiles onto the island and pointed them at the USA.

During almost the entire time that Russia and the USA had been fighting for power they had also stored up a large cache of nuclear weapons. This in fact would put the whole world in jeopardy for their lives. It was President Regan who brought forth the ideas of a Star Wars anti-ballistic weaponry. He concluded that the only way for him to reach the US with his missiles was to

This surge in funding left the citizens in financial ruin. People were literally starving to death by the

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