War and Terrorism

War & Terrorism:

The twentieth century was unlike no other. The series of wars completely revolutionized the world forever. Following War World II, the world seemed to be divided by political difference and the fear that the opponent’s ideology would spread, becoming the more dominate political practice. The Cold War illustrated the world’s ideological division. There was a global divide between political and economical ideals, democracy/capitalism and communism. The Cold War was unlike past wars and its impact was, therefore, tremendous. The pre and post-cold war eras are two completely different worlds. The Cold War revolutionized world relations by reconstructing global divisions and ending the war of political ideologies.

To understand the impact of the Cold War, it is essential to first examine its history. The Cold War was one of the longest wars in history, lasting over four decades. The Cold War was one result of World War Two, and, therefore, it began immediately following the end of the war in 1945. As its long duration implies, it was a complicated war, but, to simplify, it was a hostile struggle between two superpowers, the Soviet Union and their communist bloc with Eastern Europe and the United States with Western Europe in their political and economic system of capitalism/democracy. The war was not a physical battle like the world wars before it, it was a war of political ideologies. The ideological difference caused a great division and paranoia in the world. Each superpower feared that the other’s ideology would spread and, therefore, give their opponent more alliances and power.

Germany was one of the most important counties in Europe during that time, where The Soviets had controlled Eastern section and the United States, Britain and France had controlled the Western section. The Soviets tried to invade Western Germany to make the whole country a communist state, but the United States and their allies did not allow that to happen. As a result, the Soviet gave up on that mission. Soon after the Berlin Blockage ended, North Korea, with the support of the Soviet