President Putin, Russia 's Current President

Brands' purpose for writing this book was to inform the reader of actions taken before, during, and after the Cold War. After World War II, the United States and Russia were the only two remaining world powers. Each had a conflicting method of government, which ultimately led to the Cold War. The two superpowers were at the center of attention for the better part of

Throughout the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union, the USSR, tried to outspend and outdo each other. They looked for any advantage they could get to achieve more attainments than the

After, World War Two things between the Soviet Union and the Unites States of America began to change. Things between the two were fine during World War Two they helped each other; however, suddenly after World War Two they became enemies (Economic Difference between the U.S and Soviet Union). So they did not always disagree about things until after World War Two. One of the major things they did not agree about was how an economy should be run and also the government (Economic Difference between the U.S and Soviet

Despite the unsuccessful past during the Cold War years between the United States and the Soviet Union, President Ronald Reagan and his counterpart the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev during the 1980s should have focused on bright future by reducing the nuclear arms, because having a partnership, friendship and the common goal will move two nations toward success. On 1985, in an effort to improve the international situation, the United States and the Soviet Union have decided to hold a meeting in Switzerland, Geneva. It was a first official meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, to discuss reductions in nuclear weapons and talk about future partnerships. Geneva Summit led on to four further meetings in 1986 Reykjavik, in 1987 in Washington, Moscow in 1988, and the last one in New York Harbour in 1988.

During the Second World War, USA and the Soviet Union came together against a common enemy. It was the immediate events after the War which lead to renewed tensions between the superpowers. Many commentators attribute the Berlin Blockade crisis of 1948 to be the catalyst that sparked the beginning of the Cold War. The Cold War period was a state of political and military tension running parallel with the development of nuclear weapons between the United States and the Soviet Union. The ideological differences between these two Superpowers put massive strain on their relationship. USA was democratic, capitalist state. Their ideals were heavily based on a classist society, where the means for producing and distributing goods is owned by a small minority of people (World Socialist Movement 2016). The Soviet Union’s communist ideals were at the other end of the spectrum. Their ideas were based around communal management and public ownership of major production mediums (Richard Dagger 2014). It is obvious that these ideologies are extremely different. Over the next four decades the world came close to

The relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was very tense, especially during the Cold War. Prior to this war, during World War II, they worked together as allies. Both of them had different ways of economically thinking. The Soviet Union was communist and the United States was capitalist. However, during this time Russia wanted to spread communism across the world, but the United States aided the cessation of the spread.

Russia was upset that the US had not opened a second front in Germany, considering they had been attacked by Germany at least twice in 40 years. Russia argued that not opening a second front caused millions of casualties of Russian soldiers. They also felt that the Lend Lease Act, which provided military aid to nations fighting in WWII, had favored Britain and France over them. When the war ended, war material shipments from America to the USSR ceased immediately after the surrender of Germany. Russian politicians in Moscow, pointed to this as proof that the US would not support the USSR post-war. Another cause of tension was Russia’s hatred of capitalism, which was the basis of the US economic system. The Soviet Union accused the U.S. of supporting and interfering in the politics of other

“We shall pay the price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” (John F Kennedy) Before the Cold War, Russia and the United States fought next to each other in World War II. The U.S even gave them millions of dollars worth of weapons and other support to help defeat the Nazis. But when Joseph Stalin took over, created the Soviet Union and started spreading communism the U.S had to do something about it. During the Cold War the United States and the Soviet Union were pitted against each other, each with hopes on spreading their own but very different governments and requirements, taking extreme measures like containment, the Truman Doctrine, Berlin Blockade, or the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Nixon participated in the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, thus diminishing the US-Soviet tension by decreasing the chances of a nuclear weapon war between USSR and the United States.

In conclusion, President Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev developed detente from 1969 to 1979 because of the overwhelming fear of a possibility of a nuclear war. The cost of the arms race had taken an immense toll on the economic stability of both the United States and the Soviet Union, causes both leaders to adopt a more pragmatic view of the Cold War. The European countries involved in the Cold War were also taking steps to relax tensions between the countries divided by the iron curtain. This caused both nations to develop this period of detente and establish treaties through the Arms Limitations

The major changes in what was then the Soviet Union led to inflation, which created economic problems, and in the end, many social changes because of that. Decisions made by consumers were now turning practical. “Careful not to purchase other countries’ cast-offs, the goods foreign producers considered unfit for at least some of their own compatriots… these suspicions served as guidelines in a market where unaccustomed variety could be overwhelming, miscalculation could threaten health, and reliable information was scarce.” (122-123) The social change was thanks to variety. While there was only one source for items before the move from communism to capitalism, the variety created distrust among the Russian population. This rings true throughout the world, and you begin to see Patico tie this back into the rest of the world. Where Russians are skeptical of imported goods, Americans are commonly skeptical of second hand items, which as explained by Veronika is what imported food

The United States and the Soviet Union competed against each other during the Cold War in the second half of the 20th Century like a chess game, with the world as their chessboard and countries as pawns in their game. For the Russians, a critical part of the chessboard was Cuba and Latin America. The Russians believed that if they could align themselves with countries in the western hemisphere, America’s “backyard”, it would help the Soviet Union counter the strong political influence and military presence America had in Europe, which made the Russians feel threatened. The Soviet Union tried to align itself politically, militarily, and economically with as many Latin American countries as it could. In

After the decline of WWII the Americans and Russians were the last countries standing making them superior to the rest of the world. This proved to be detrimental to both the Americans and Russians because both countries adopted different views of government. The Americans truly believed in a capitalist governed society were the

Fundamental to America's outside approach in the post-war period was the control of the Soviet Union

During the cold war John F. Kennedy and the Soviet premier met to discuss the was between the east and west but they resolved nothing and Khrushchev left thinking that Kennedy was a weak leader. The Soviets