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The two countries were time and again disallowed from achieving a shared agreement on major policy matters due to the specific differences, like in the case of the Cuban missile emergency that brought them to the verge of war. (The Soviet Union and the United States) Many unfavorable situations were generated by the hostility during the Cold War. All through the world, the effects of the Cold War were spread out like radiations from the atmospheric nuclear tests in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's. In the 1950's regarding the Soviet's 'war without borders' there were tensions in the U.S. which resulted in the House Committee on Un-American activities attack on Communism in American culture. Stalin's strong rule and ethos of bigotry resulted in millions of deaths in the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union positioned the nuclear weapons 90 miles off the coast of Florida in Cuba, there was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. After wavering for thirteen days the nuclear war came to an end with a clandestine accord in which the Soviet Union agreed to remove their weaponry out of Cuba and the U.S. assured to take away their weaponry from Turkey after six months. (The Cold War: (http://www.nuclearfiles.org)

On both sides, the philosophies included an idea of world supremacy. Besides, the U.S. military or industrial complex 'Domino Theory'- the apprehension that if any single country becomes Communist it would direct their neighbors to back the lead and to increase regional unsteadiness- which resulted in many military battles- including the Vietnam War which were in turn financed and supported by both Superpowers. (The Cold War: (http://www.nuclearfiles.org) Conflict between the two countries was created by the Soviet attitude on human rights and its attack of Afghanistan in 1979. These conflicts prolonged till the remarkable democratic changes of 1989-91, which resulted in the fall down of the Communist order. (The Soviet Union and the United States)

For the Soviet Union, the military expenses were a great burden on its economy exhausting the capital, which can otherwise be used to improve the financial situation of the people. Though Russia's federal financial system could supply the organization for an efficient military organization, it could not resourcefully handle the multifarious delivery system of a society which is consumer-oriented. Although Soviet Union was a vast military power, its people resided in underprivileged conditions all through the Cold War. In the United States also, the military expenses exhausted the capital and aptitude, which could have been used for the private financial system. United States, which was formerly a leading economy in the world, fell behind Japan and West Germany in the contest for superior quality consumer goods, in the 1970's. United States was made to become the largest defaulter nation in the world, due to two decades of negative balances of trade. The reason partly