Who won the Cold War the Soviet Union or US?

Answer 1

I'd say there was no winner. The USSR did collapse later on mainly because it did not have funds coming into its nuclear program like the US did.

But let's just consider the Cold War just as it is.

Reagan getting credit for the end of the Cold War is just incorrect because the final end of the Cold War was in the time of JFK.

Russia did take it's missiles out of Cuba as JFK asked but let's face it, the USSR wasn't going to launch an attack. And even if it was, it didn't need to be 26 or so miles away from it's target, it could have guided it eastward from the Soviet Union (If they could sent sputnik I and II our of earth's atmosphere, they could have launched a missile to the US). Reagan started negotiations with Gorbachev but in the end, Kennedy finished it.

Gorbachev played a very significant role, which Americans tend to ignore but it has to be noted that the US was in shock after the first sputnik launch. Gorbachev on the other hand was no Stalin. He was quite a peaceful man who sought to put an end to the war and give the Soviet Union a chance at peace after the long devastation under the hands of Hitler and then Stalin.

I don't see Gorbachev as having any intention at firing the nuclear weapons because the U.S. couldn't afford an attack like that and a retaliation could have very well ended in Armageddon for the entire world. The USSR put the missiles in Cuba just to get it out and in return, the US had to give up several "leverages" that it had on the USSR in terms of weapons.

And after the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. continued and still continues to make weapons of mass destruction.

Answer 2

That is a difficult question. Both the USA and the Allies in Europe won, whilst the Soviet Union gained what it wanted. World War II was almost two separate wars fought on opposite sides of the globe. It was fought from 1939 to 1945 and centred around Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and other allies ultimately defeating Germany, Italy, and Japan. It began as a conflict between Germany and the combined forces of France and Great Britain. The Soviet Union invaded Manchuria and debilitated the only significant forces the Japanese still had left, whilst the US dropped the bombs that led to the Japanese surrender. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 14 August 1945, when Emperor Hirohito accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, also known as the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender. On the other side of the globe, after six years of war, Germany signed an unconditional surrender to the Allies. Germany's collapse had come after the Western and Russian armies met at Torgau in Saxony in late April, and after Hitler's death amid the ruins of Berlin, which fell to the Russians. Germany's surrender was ratified at Berlin on 8 May 1945, which came to be known as VE Day (Victory in Europe). On that day, British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, officially announced the end of the war with Germany.

Answer 3

To this day it is still not really clear, but we can assume that the biggest super power was the USSR (Soviet Union) as she had more numbers, more advanced weapons technology at the time and even more resources.

They also beat the USA at most of the technological/productive races.

Answer 4

neither there is no treaty or anything stating that someone accualy won but for the majority we did