La Guerra Fría. Causas y consecuencias

[Music] The Cold War dominated the second half of the 20th century and resulted in the collapse of communism. The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union between the 1940s and 1950s. It all began with the end of World War II and was called the Cold War

because war was not fought between the two nations, probably due to fear of nuclear escalation. In between, there were many indirect conflicts such as the Vietnam and Korean Wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis also took place in 1962, perhaps one of the episodes that brought nuclear war closest. These were the main causes of the Cold War: the

Soviet Union wanted to spread its communist ideology throughout the world, which alarmed the Americans who hated that political system; the acquisition of atomic weapons by the Americans greatly alarmed the Soviets; both countries feared an attack from the other; the American president felt a personal aversion towards the Russian president, Joseph Stalin; the Soviets feared that the

United States would use Western Europe as a base to attack the Soviet Union. The effects that the Cold War brought with it were the The United States and the Soviet Union amassed large arsenals of atomic weapons and ballistic missiles. The NATO and Warsaw Pact military blocs were formed. This led to the destructive conflicts in Vietnam and

Korea. The Soviet Union collapsed due to its economic weaknesses. The Berlin Wall fell and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated. The Baltic states and some former Soviet republics achieved independence. The United States became the world's sole superpower and communism collapsed. [Music] foreign [Music]