This website will use primary and secondary sources to examine the main aspects of the Cold War. Each side will be presented and every side's perceptive will be taken in for consideration. The Cold War was the build up of tensions from the ending of World War II, due to miscommunication and a lot of finger pointing the Soviet Union and the United States entered into a state of political hostility. Each country used propaganda, indirect warfare (the proxy wars), and a competitive attitude towards space exploration and weapon manufacturing. Due to the power of the Atom bomb both parties feared M.A.D. (Mutual Assured Destruction) allowing the Cold War not to break out in actual war.