The End Of World War - 1303 Words

The end of World War Two was the beginning of the Cold war. The United States and the Soviet Union emerged from this terrible time in World History with totally different economic and political goals and ambitions. The Cold War was a state of political, military and economic hostility that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union. The ideological differences between the two superpowers, because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two sides, the world â€Å"cold’ was used to describe their relationship. The United States and the Soviet Union after World War had a relationship that was complex, ideological, economically, politically and which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter†¦show more content†¦The Cold War was not a war but the state of affairs of the relationship between the United States and Soviet Union after the defeat of Hitler and the end of World War Two. At the end of World War two superpowers were left standing with opposing ideologies. In 1960 when Senator Kennedy began his run for the President he position himself as a Cold War Warrior, he like most politicians, played on the fears of the American people building his campaign on miss information stating that we were losing the arms race against the Soviet Union, when the fact was clear the United States was the leader in building missiles. At the most troubling time of the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis was on everybody mind. In October of 1962 the Soviet Union and United States were so close to the brink of war. The events that led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962 began many years earlier, according to CBC timeline, â€Å"when revolutionary leader Fidel Castro takes power after the Cuban revolution†. According to Edith Leeder â€Å"Fidel Castro Cuba’s newly installed communist revouloutionary leader embraces the leader of the Soviet Union Nikki Khrushchev and denouces the United States. The United Nations General Assembly and the world listen to Fidel Castro speak for 4 hours and 29 minutes, the longest speech ever given at the U.N. , he lectured world