President Eisenhower and President Kennedy Continued Legacy of Cold War
Balance
of terror is a term used by the United States and the Soviet
Union to refer to nuclear arms race
throughout the Cold War. The name defines
shaky friendship that existed between the two countries terrified at the vision of a world extinguishing
nuclear war. The United States nuclear
policy is the American government
policy of different departments and agencies dealing
with energy, dangerous waste transport,
biomedical, radionuclides, and military. It involves management of nuclear
levels.
Containment is a move made by the Soviet Union to spread communism to the east of
Europe. The United States used this
to stop the spread of communism.
It created a middle ground
between the countries. Containment has a link to the NATO North Atlantic
Treaty Organization. The Cold War did not involve the two countries fighting each other,
but each one of them supported
a country that was in the war. The war was between the western and the eastern. The western bloc
had the United States of America and its NETO friends, and the eastern bloc had the
Soviet Union and its friends
in the Warsaw pact. The war divided the alliances, leaving the United States of
America and the USSR super powers.
Each country had a nuclear,
and each side had a well-organized defense
for any eventuality of war between them.
After
World War 2, Germany subdivided
into four zones controlled by the power
countries that occupied Berlin City, also divided into four although the Soviet Union occupied most parts of the city. The United States of
America, Britain, and France joined
up, took over one soviet area,
and ordered the contraction of the
Berlin wall.
Superiority
of the two-superpower countries came
about due to technology. The essence
of this was to improve on
their national security. The
United States was the first country to land a human being on the moon. The space shuttle that landed on the moon had a soviet cosmonaut crew. The technology came from a German advanced technology, which the two countries captured during World War
2. Science also played an important role during World
War 2 with the invention of buzz
bombs and ballistic missiles.
The
Cuban crisis happened in 1962, between the United States
of America and the USSR. The
deployment of missiles in Cuba was aired
worldwide on television. The cold
war almost turned into a nuclear war. The deployment of the missiles was
an agreement between the
Americans and the Cuban government
to bar further attacks from the
Soviet Union. The USA through air photographs noticed that the USSR had deployed
missile 90 miles from Florida and took extra measures to stop further nuclear
attacks by the Soviet Union by using missiles in Cuba.