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The Cold War: The Red Scare And Nuclear Arms Race

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The Cold War was a tension between United States and the Soviet Union in 1945 until 1989. Some of the causes that led to the Cold War is the Red Scare, and Nuclear Arms Race. In the early 1950s, a threat posed by communists in the United States called the Red Scare. The Nuclear Arms Race was a completion authority in nuclear warfare between the United States and Soviet Union. They used nuclear weapons to fight with in the Cold War such as the AN-22 gravity bomb and ASMP attack missile. At the end of the war both of the counties lost the United States and the Soviet Union. One reason the Cold War started was because the United States policy threatened the Soviet Union. After WWII, Both countries the United States and the Soviet Union were known as superpowers which means both superpowers never declare war on each other. Both superpowers had very different fundamental political and economic systems. The world immediately divided into the Communist East and the Capitalist West. There were a number of economic impacts that significantly resulted in the lead up to the …show more content…

While the war didn 't occurred between both superpowers, there were number of political conflicts such as Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Berlin Blockade was the most significant event of the Cold War that led the split of Eastern and Western Germany. Red Scare is a threat post in the United States it occurred in 1950 and 1957. Nuclear Arms Race is nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War. Both superpowers spent billions and billions to build up huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons,the end of the Cold War did not lead to the end of nuclear weapons (Turnbull 38). The soviets payed a lot on the military that helped them to bring an end to the Cold

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