The origins of the East-West conflict stems from multiple events. This tension brewed into a bitter and long conflict known as the Cold War. The struggle for dominance and world power was masked with differences in ideas of political, social and economic ways of life. At the climax of the Cold War stood the threat of Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile crisis. To better understand why Soviet and United States relations diminished quickly after …showed first 75 words of 841 total…

…showed last 75 words of 841 total…capitalism is good, while non-capitalism is bad. This rallies the American people and its leader under the assumption that the Soviets communist society is bad. The Soviets feel that communism is good and capitalism is bad, thus causing more conflict. Relations declined By the end of 1945, Europe seemed to be divided between two rival sectors. One sector was allied militarily and economically to the United States, the other was tied to the Soviet Union (Lieber 65).