1990) online free to borrow covers 1781-1988; Gaddis, John Lewis. The Soviet Union had suffered terribly during World War II and was hungry to recover. Garthoff, Raymond L. Détente and confrontation: American-Soviet relations from Nixon to Reagan (2nd ed. The Cold War as a system of states ended on a cold and gray December day in Moscow in 1991, when Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Soviet Union out of existence. Initially a dispute over the future of Europe, it grew to include confrontations around the world.

Conflicts of national interest caused the World War II alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union to be replaced by a Cold War that lasted 45 years. In my personal opinion, it would be the United States. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947 (2000). During the Cold War the US and the USSR (along with their various allies) did everything possible to overcome each other, short of actual war. 1994) In-depth scholarly history covers 1969 to 1980. The foundations of the Cold War were broader than just the ideological struggle between capitalism and communism.

Why? The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Northern Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991 and was the largest country in the world. It was a peculiar state of almost war. Soviet leaders feared and distrusted the United States, which was the only country with the atomic bomb — and which had used it.

Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States (2nd ed.