The Cold War was one in fought without physical conflict. Instead, it was a war centered exclusively around different political views amid two superpowers in the world. America favored the idea of capitalism in their country and subsequently, they wanted this idea for the rest of the world. The USSR (Russia) preferred communism. The War started from the harsh disparity between the US and the USSR after WWII. The USSR desired to continue to inhabit the European countries while the US said to eradicate themselves from the countries. The USSR shaped an iron curtain; which detached the western part of Europe from the eastern part, splitting Germany in half. The USSR planned to governor all the neighboring countries but many were fighting the authority. Those countries were secured by the US. The US shaped NATO which was an agreement that brought together the North Atlantic alongside the USSR. In response to the idea of NATO the USSR created the Warsaw Pact with its satellite countries. The USSR established its very first nuclear bomb and the US became disturbed with this so they began creating more bombs and the countries began to one up each other. Then the USSR treaded over the line with their placement of bombs, they placed missiles in Cuba which put the US into immediate panic because they were aimed at US territory. President Kennedy instantly had them removed, causing a sigh of relief for Americans. During the 1970's and early 1980's, the Soviet economy was declining under the increasing effects of a central bureaucratic system, the loads of a progressively expensive arms race, and a failed war in Afghanistan. A new group of leadership came to power in 1985, Gorbachev. Gorbachev determined to end the Cold War and to bring profitable and political improvement to the Soviet Union. He introduced intense new arrangements with the United States, involving one-sided concerns in the arms race. He also put an end to Soviet funding of consume