The Cold War

The Cold War is a term coined by journalist Walter Lippman given to the competition and tension between the United States and the Soviet Union from February 1945 until August 1991. (Lightbody 18) The main cause of the tension between the two giants was their ideal logical differences. The USSR was communist while the USA was capitalistic. These two ways of thinking contradicted each other, and it was in their nature that they would clash. The clash in fact leads to a 46 year war.
Although the Cold War started at the Yalta conference in February in 1945, its roots go much deeper than t…