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The cold war was to dominate international 

affairs for decades and many major crises 

occurred. 

*Weapons of mass destruction was the most 

worrying case.

 The Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, Hungary 

and the Berlin Wall were just some of the 

affairs.

Dwight D. Eisenhower the 34th 

president

of the United States was one of the 

important

leaders of the Cold War.

Charles de Gaulle was a French 

general, leader, and national 

hero. He was also the architect 

of the fifth republic.

The strategy of the cold war was that of containment 

which involved threats of total annihilation through the 

use of nuclear weapons.

Containment was a United States policy to prevent the 

spread of communism abroad. 

A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response 

to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge 

communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, 

Africa, and Vietnam. It represented a middle-ground 

position between appeasement and rollback.

Due to this ideological competition to win the 

race, technological advancement sky rocketed 

on both sides which eventually helped to 

benefit every sphere of human lives 

throughout the world.

The cold war was a success because it 

prevented all-out scale nuclear war. The end of 

the Cold War was accompanied by a large 

growth in the number of liberal democracies. 

In areas where the two superpowers had been 

waging proxy wars, and subsidizing local 

conflicts; many conflicts ended with the Cold 

War; and the occurrence of interstate wars, 

ethnic wars, revolutionary wars or refugees 

and displaced persons crises declined sharply.

The cold war was a failure in terms of the original 

problems because it was never solved. The economic 

downfall of capitalism and illiteracy caused most 

countries to switch from capitalism to communism. 

Some countries were forced to follow the Soviet Union 

by overwhelming power because it was either going to 

war or following into their grip. Since they failed to 

confront the emerging struggles of communism and the 

Soviet Union, the Democratic party received countless 

blows.

The Cold War was fought at a tremendous cost globally 

over the course of more than four decades. It cost the 

U.S. up to $8 trillion in military expenditures, and the 

lives of nearly 100,000 Americans in Korea and 

Vietnam. It cost the Soviets an even higher share of 

their gross national product. In Southeast Asia, local 

civil wars were intensified by superpower rivalry, leaving 

millions dead.The Cold War caused major proliferation of 

nuclear weapons among the US and USSR.

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The Cold War became a dominant influence on 

many aspects of American society for much of 

the second half of the 20th century. It 

escalated due to antagonist values between 

the United States, representing capitalism and 

democracy, and the Soviet Union, representing 

communism and authoritarianism.

The Cold War was different from other wars 

because it was as much of a propaganda war 

as it was military engagement. Cultural battles 

between the superpowers had as much, or 

more, of an impact on the everyday lives of 

most American civilians than any other aspect 

of the Cold War. 

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