The Cold War is the name of the time period where there was great tension between the USA and the USSR after World War Two. The Cold War’s objective was to dominate international affairs by force, and through this many crisis’ occured like the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary, and the Berlin wall. The increasing numbers of weapons of mass destruction were the main issue during this time.

Before WWII, America had made the Soviet Union look like some evil country, filled with devils. The Soviet Union had depicted America likewise, and during the war the “friendship” they had was only because they shared a mutual enemy- Nazi Germany.

The distrust between the two contries existed before, during, and after the war. The tension grew as the Soviet’s hhad the greatest army, while America had the deadliest weapons the A-Bomb. This would begin the cold war. Each side never fought eachother directly, but they used other  countries to figh for them.

There were two beliefs going around at this time for peace. One was Mutually Assured Destruction, the other was Gandhi’s method of pure peace and passiveness. Mutually ssured destruction was were both countries keep from killing eachother because they know they will both die. It is basically a, “If you attack me, I’ll attack you and it will be 100 times worse.” Neither side wanted to start a full out nuclear war. So though there was tension, there was also peace and no actually “war”

Gandhi’s method was pure peace and passive thinking. He believed you should never fight back, and if someone is hurting you or someone you love, you are supposed to stand by and do nothing. In this way, he believed the other party would look absolutely guilty, and reprocussions would happen. However, if you retaliated, you would look just as bad.

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