Ok so I think it was a combination of factors. I still have a bit of trouble understanding the Cold War, not so much the build up of it but more so its origins. I think a lot of politics played a role, after all the democracy vs communist was the root of the problems but economics I feel like were the fuel that added to the fire. Democracy and Communism have completely different directions. Not only are they separate government forms but they are made for different countries. That to me is where the economics play a large role, because the economy of the countries that the US and USSR were in competition was the deciding factor. Each country could not really fit to either communism or democracy, they were definitely suited to one more. So when a govt form was pushed on them it sometimes failed. That fact to me just pushed the US and USSR to try harder to get their govt to be a success. As the war grew it just became more tense not only for the US and USSR but other countries being "conquered" (Latin America)
Honestly I am still unsure of social causes? So if we can go over that in class that would be helpful (or I'll read more blogs :)) But Overall I think that political and economics were linked to lead to the war.
On another hand I also think WW1 and WW2 played a role. After studying both these wars we can see how WW1 set up WW2 and I thinkthis is the case for the Cold War. From WW1 to the Cold War there was never really a tension-less time. A time to get the World in order and restore tranquiltity. So I think the constant "go, go, go" feel of the past forty-fifty years caused the extreme weapons of the Cold War to be brought about. There is only so much competition and war the World can take before it is ready to do anything to end it. The World was ready to be done with warring after all this time, and nuclear weapons were the answer. Although we have not talked abbot this in class yet, I just thought I'd mention it while it was on my mind. I think in general the continuation of war played a large role into the coming of the Cold War.
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