The growth of socialist forces after World War II caused panic in capitalism.
The Cold War is an economic competition, an arms competition and a scientific and technological competition caused by the hostility and contradiction between capitalism and socialism.
The dark clouds of the Second World War were swept away, and the curtain of the Cold War slowly opened from the ruins of bricks and tiles. The two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, have never really lived in peace since they lifted the threat of jointly confronting the Nazis. As soon as Hitler fell, the two sides launched an all-round competition, trying to control the whole world with their influence. Different from previous wars, both sides provoked indirect war confrontation in other countries to avoid direct fighting conflicts between them. Both sides don't want to provoke each other to go to war directly, because it means all-out nuclear war-the danger of human destruction, and on this premise, the two sides formed a cold war situation.
Even during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union actively sought various ways to compete with each other. One of the most daunting is the arms race, in which the two sides have accumulated enough nuclear warheads for each other to destroy hundreds of times and expanded the scope of nuclear bombs into space. Both sides are planning and implementing espionage activities against each other all the time. The only positive consequence of the space race is to promote the development of the space industry. The Soviets sailed in space for the first time, while the Americans seized the opportunity to land on the moon. In order to accomplish the great cause of manned space flight, both sides are constantly developing and applying the latest scientific and technological achievements. The war changed the model of military alliance. Americans and western European countries form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). As a confrontation, the Soviet Union brought together most eastern European countries and jointly established the Warsaw Treaty Organization, a common defense entity. If any member of these two organizations is attacked, it will be regarded as a provocation to the whole organization, and all members of the organization will immediately launch the most severe counterattack against the challenging country. Although the real all-out war between the United States and the Soviet Union has never broken out, several wars have been imminent. The most dangerous one was the Cuban missile crisis. The Americans found that the Soviets were building a nuclear missile base in Cuba-only 90 miles from the mainland of the United States. To make matters worse, more nuclear bombs were shipped here. At that time, President Kennedy of the United States reached a diplomatic tacit understanding with the Soviets with decisive actions, which prompted the Soviets to withdraw their missile bases from Cuba and the missile crisis was lifted.
In the end, the United States defeated the Soviet Union. Communism was a complete failure in the Soviet Union-even before the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many countries in the former communist camp had abandoned their beliefs. The former Warsaw Pact has long been nowhere to be found, but NATO has been active so far, absorbing many members of the former Soviet camp to join.
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