End of Cold War

End of Cold War

Cold War

The Cold War was a state of permanent tension, but never came to a general war. There were the cases of extreme tension that were always resolved through localized conflicts that were distant from the nerve centers of the two powers. They developed a strategy unlike continuous harassment, which included constant military threat, both conventional and nuclear, ideological confrontation and economic warfare. The world was controlled by the U.S. and the USSR, which divided the world into two blocs (Calhoun, Craig, 2002). The revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe had been a historical event of multiple resonances.

Features

On one hand, there were the collapse of communist systems built after 1945, on the other, it meant the loss of the area of influence that USSR had built after the victory against Nazism and many do not hesitate to call "Soviet empire". The Cold War was the conflict that had marked international relations since the end of World War II. It ended in a way that no one would have dared to predict a few years before the collapse and disintegration of one of the contenders. The end of the Cold War and the demise of the Soviet Union are two parallel phenomena that will radically change the world (Byrd, Peter, 2003).

There were clashes across borders. In Greece there are conflicts royalists (supported by the British) and nationalists (backed by the USSR). At the Potsdam Conference (1945), there were fixed occupation zones of the Allied armies, so that Berlin was divided into four zones.

Churchill was the first to sight the division of opinion among the Powers (1946). Both powers were harshly suppressed dissent and marginalized. In the U.S., the disagreements were combated the persecution of artists and intellectuals suspected communists. In Soviet, the labor ...