Assess the impact of the conflict on the US-Soviet relations
Russian-American relations, that had been harmonious for most of the nineteenth century, were subject to increasing tension from the 1890's. The term 'cold war' refers to the state of political tension between the two nations, which stopped just short of full-scale war. In assessing the impact of the conflict on the soviet relations, and US there are many other contributing factors and events that require consideration, such as the Cuban missile crisis and its impact on the USA and the USSR.
Historians differ in their explanation of the origins of the altercation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the period of the Cold War. Some see it as a prominent issue of power politics while others view it as opposing ideological systems. Writing of the need for 'understanding the causes of this struggle between the United States and Russia', Walter LaFeber says: " the conflict did not begin in 1945 or even with the communist victory in Russia in 1917.
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English: Nikita Kruschev letter to President Kenne...The two powers did not initially come into conflict because one was communist and other capitalist" rather he implies that they first confronted one another in the plains of Asia in the late 19th century in which the Americans expanded west and Russians had moved east across Asia.
The struggle was called the Cold War because it did not actually lead to direct armed conflict between the superpowers on a widescale. The Cold War was compensated by means of economic pressure, selective aid, diplomatic manoeuvre, propaganda, assassination, low-intensity military operations and full-scale proxy war from 1947 until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Cold War experienced the largest most conservative and first nuclear arms race in history.one of the major events that arose from...