Cold+War+Amd

= The Cold War =

The Early Years
The Cold War was between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was a war of build up and prestige, not the normal combat focus wars that the U.S. had been previously involved in. Both sides were after international domination as world powers, they built up technologies, athletic prestige, foreign affairs, and both sides collected large amounts of weapons so that there was always the threat that if one side attacked there would be massive retaliation. This war led to a few different things within the early years, two important parts of containing communism within the war, were The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan and the Berlin Airlift. Ultimately the U.S. won the Cold War.