The Cold War and the Ideological Battle

The Cold War was a cultural confrontation between America and the Soviet Union, which colored many major geopolitical events in the second half of the 20th century. This includes, among other things, colonization release and new colonialism in African countries. Kwame Nkrumah pointed out that although the new colonialism is an imperialistic regime that claims to be independent, it will still affect new countries to achieve that goal. The United States and the Soviet Union are both new colonial forces and a typical example of their desire to form other countries makes decolonization unattractive to countries other than Africa.

If the period of direct confrontation with the ghost of the global nuclear war represents the most obvious aspect of the Cold War, the struggle against opposing ideologies is equally intense. A competitive view on history and the future of the world is the center of conflict. However, ideological conflict can be seen as different from the Cold War 's security performance. As Heller pointed out, the competition between revolutionary communism and democratic capitalism is "disagreement of authority and interpretation of world social values ​​(456)". One way of this manifestation of the Cold War the remaining difference is its staging. If we go back to Marx and the Communism declaration, the ideological battle between capitalism and communism will last until 100 years before the Cold War.

H-Diplo article comment 548 (H-Diplo article review forum) "Special issue: Cold War review: 25 years after the end".

Historical Background: The Cold War began at the end of the Second World War. The purpose of this war is to spread the conflicting ideologies of capitalism and communism through the two world powers without the consequences of hot war. War brought about among capitalists West - the United States, the UK, France - and Communist East - Russia and all the satellite countries known as communism. The agreement agreed at the Yalta Conference in 1945 is that Germany will divide.