Question by ferrariiam: What prevented USSR and USA from going to war during the Cold War?
Political, ideological, and militarily factors. Thank you very much!
This is for a essay that i have to write in class and im really lost in it.
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Answer by tree gal
Both countries wanted everything and wanted to be the main power.Figured out that it was a no win situation .
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What do you think?
efw says
both countries believed in M.A.D….
Aradian Fire says
The major reason, which some of the people talked about has an acronym that was used even then: MAD = mutually assured destruction.
If one country attacked the other, it was given that the other would respond. This would set of a series of attacks that would end in no one winning but both losing. Hence, both nations avoided the bombs of choice knowing what would happen.
Ester says
It really shouldn't be too hard. I bet you can look up a dozen sites on the Cold War and have your outline in an hour. Just go for it.
But off the top of my head…The U.S. was propping up Europe with the Truman Doctrine (aid to countries that pledge to contain Communism) and the Marshall Plan (aid to European countries that agree to form a democratic gov't). So they were already spending a bunch of money there.
Both countries had also come out of WWII, where the Soviet Union had lost about 20 million men, and the U.S….300,000? Many deaths. And the U.S. people at least were kind of war weary.
Big weapons were being developed; the atom bomb had already been used, and the U.S. and USSR were working on the hydrogen bombs. These would make full-out war even more serious.
Ummm….
K, i'm done.
Jimmy Et says
It was the FEAR of all out nuclear war.
The U.S alone, had enough fire power to eliminate the global population 8 times over.USSR was fairly equivalent.