Cold War Juan José Pinzón Trejos

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Cold War – Juan José Pinzón Trejos

Can you believe that the world came close to nuclear war? The cold war was a political,

economic, social, and military conflict that started in 1947 in which the two powers of the time,

the United States and The Soviet Union try to spread their influence in the world. Both countries

did not fight directly but they involved in many wars with the objective of spread their influence.

After second World War in 1947 The United States and Soviet Union started a conflict in

which countries fought to extend their influence in the world, The U.S support the capitalism and

The URSS support communism. The U.S created the Marshall Plan that helped the European

countries to recover after the second World War for being allies of the U.S and the world divided

in two teams. In consequence, many conflicts start such as the Korean War that The US

supported the South Korea and The Soviet Union support North Korea, not only the Korean war

was there where many conflicts in which the two superpowers involucrate such as Vietnam War,

Afghan soviet War and Greek civil war, and many others.

During the cold war exactly, in 1962 that the world was very close of a nuclear war that

was the Cuban missiles crisis was an standoff between The Soviet Union and the United States in

1962 in which the soviet union install a nuclear base aiming at the United States, the president

John f Kennedy responds with a naval blockade to Cuba and make an advertisement to the Soviet

Union that they would use nuclear weapons if it is necessary, at that moment the world was very

close for start a nuclear war, but and the end the U.S agreed with the Soviet Union to remove the

missiles base in Cuba and the United States promise that not invade Cuba and they have to

remove their missiles in Turkey.

Finally in the 1989s the Soviet Union have a seriously economic depression so both

countries decided to sign the INF treaty that consist in the elimination of medium and short range

missiles, and both countries have a temporary peace until 1991 when officially The Soviet Union

falls and pass to form The Russian Federation and finally ends the Cold war, the Cold war left

many consequences that still exists in the present, the main consequence is that the U.S is the

principal superpower in the world, also another consequence is that both countries still having

many nuclear weapons and the end of cold war supposed the end of communism but still some

countries that were under the influence of the soviet union that still having a communist state.

The Cold war was a global conflict between the URSS and the U.S that ended in 1991

with the URSS dissolution. This conflict affects all the countries because that conflict was very

close to start a nuclear war. These conflicts supposed many changes in the world and indirectly

starts many wars. This conflict is a demonstration of the darkest behaviors of the humans that

only wants power and that there are capable of starts a nuclear war only to get it, fortunately if

the cold war happens in a different way our planet would be so different as we know it. “The end

of the cold war is our common victory” Mikhail Gorbachev, 1992

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