The Cold War Summary

In the book The Cold War: A New History, Gaddis’s work entails the events and important moments in the Cold War and focuses on how the two superpowers in the war, the United States and the Soviet Union, fought and clashed in many ways during this war. The author’s purpose for writing this book was that Gaddis wanted to write about history that would appeal to the new generation of reader, along with wanting to write a book that would answer any question readers or individuals may have on the Cold War. People may view history as bland and indistinguishable from each other, but Gaddis attempts to write his book on the Cold War in a way that it would appeal to the interest of the new generation and answer any questions people have about the Cold

It was apparent that the United States and the Soviet Union were very untrusting of each other during the Cold War. What event that greatly intensified the distrust between the two superpowers was the creation of the atomic bomb. The Manhattan Project, which was an American and British project that was secretly developing a weapon that would be effective against Germany, but the Nazis gave to surrender before the United States and Great Britain could use it. However, the Manhattan Project was not all that secretive because the Soviet were able to find out about the project through espionage, and the Russians were able to spy on the project at three different times. Stalin revealed his knowledge of the project once President Truman told him about their bomb that could stop Japan at the Potsdam Conference. While this does show the level of trust Stalin had in his allies and the United States does feel betrayed and their privacy was violated, the United States was not exactly completely innocent in this either because they did not tell the Soviet Union, their allies, about the Manhattan Project in the first place. Not telling an ally important information can create distrustful feelings as