Cold War Tensions

Cold War tension grew as time progressed. By the end of World War II the U.S. had dropped an Atom bomb on Japan, within four years,the Soviet Union had also developed their own Bomb. At that time not only the developement of nuclear weaponry was a treat to the U.S. but also the expanding soviet military in Eastern Europe. In return to the threat, containment was the United State foreign policy for the expansion of the Soviet Union. The international tensions that grew between both superpowers became known as the Cold War. Tensions rose not only with the treat of nuclear war but many other facters. Both superpowers worked in supeior manners to be better than one another. The United States soon became frustrated, when in 1957 the Soviet Union deployed the first satellite into space, Spunik. Within its own country the U.S. became fearful. McCarthy, a U.S. senator, was known for adding to the tension by harshly accusing citizen for being communist with no true evidence to prove it. America rage went on as his influences spread across the nation.