What events during the Cold War do you think were the most important for influencing its eventual outcome? The Cold War phenomenon was prone to collapse due to a number of factors. The first one is economic, when the Soviet socialism was overshadowed by the growing capitalist economies of the...

After the end of WWII America and the Soviet Union entered in to a conflict of another sort; the Cold War. While neither side actually took up arms against each other there was a constant fear in America about the use of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union against us...