Why was us and Soviet Union in a cold war?

Answer 1

Don't quote me on this, but I'm assuming that the Cold War stayed cold between the United States and the Soviet Union because they were both too afraid of each other's power to actually use the weapons they had. I will quote you on that because your answer is absolutely CORRECT! It was a balance of power known as Mutually-Assured Destruction. The enemy could not be destroyed without destroying oneself, so the Cold War had to be fought in other ways; by proxy, by Propaganda, by cloak & dagger, and by shows of strength.

Answer 2

This is a very complex question, but a simplified answer would be tensions between competing ideologies. The US was and is a capitalist nation with a free market economy, while the Soviet Union was a communist nation that controlled all of the production of its citizens through the government. Because the Soviet Union was formed through revolt against the existing government and nearby nations seemed to follow, the US was afraid that a "domino effect" would take place as more and more nations "fell" to communism, which the US saw as an absolute Dictatorship. Both countries were stockpiling nuclear missiles in defense, which meant that they began racing each other, and it spiraled out of control.

Answer 3

Because the japanesse threw bombs to pearl harbor (hawai) during the cold war