Cold War

Cold war
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Introduction
The term cold war refers to the rivalry which emerged after the Second World War between the west comprising of United States of America and her allies and the former East bloc who was made up by the USSR and her allies. The name cold war was coined from the fact that it was not waged on battlefields with weapons; it was a war a war of words and propaganda characterized by economic hostilities towards each other and military and financial aid to their allies.[Taylor, David. The Cold War. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2001.]
Many reasons led to the development cold war such as ideological differences where the west advocated for capitalistic ideologies of free economic development while the East bloc advocated for communism where economic development was to remain under the strict watch and command of the state.[ibd]
Disagreement over disarmament between the United States of America and the USSR which was brought about by the need to have peace where the United States came up with a proposal to check the manufacture of weapons. They came up with a plan to check the manufacture of weapons and were presented in the United Nations. This was adopted in the United Nations. The Soviet Union picked this as propaganda since they had not manufactured any atomic weapons at this time. This made the later to request that all atomic weapons be destroyed since they had not manufactured. They failed to agree on the arms issues and therefore they continued to increase the piles of atomic bombs.[Grant, R. G. The Cold War. Mankato, Minn: Arcturus Pub, 2008.]
The iron curtain policy adopted by the Soviet Union was another major factor which propelled the cold war. This is because it had occupied the Eastern area which was inside Europe during the time of the Second World War. It had occupied countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary, East Germany and Poland. Soviet rule over these countries was so thorough that it prompted Winston Churchill the then British prime minister to say that an iron curtain had been dropped by the Soviet Union to seal off Eastern Europe from the west. This new and tight division of Europe made international relations very poor.
The other causes of the cold war were the European conflicts of the late 1940s such as the civil war in Greece where the western bloc supported one side and the Soviet Union the other increasing tension in Europe. The united nation domination by the western powers was brought about by the Russian veto power which the United States wanted to be limited to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not accept since it wanted to ...