Title: Military and Political Consequences of the Cold War
Headings: Sample Essay on Military and Political Consequences of the Cold War
Sample Essay on Military and Political Consequences of the Cold War
Military and Political Consequences of the Cold War

Content: About 100,000 Americans died during the war that was sparked by the cold war in Vietnam and Korea. The number of soldiers lost by the Soviet Union and the expenses are difficult to estimate. This is because the Soviet Union had a much higher financial cost in terms of the gross national product at the time of the war. Until this day, nuclear legacies established during the cold war are easy to identify. Militarization has also continued even after the cold war with the United States and Russia spending millions in military developments especially in the establishment of defensive systems and nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. Since no treaties were signed to formalize the end of cold war, superpowers are still maintaining and improving as well as modifying their nuclear weapons. Politically, the cold war created the impression that there were two main political ideologies. These were communism and capitalism ideologies. The United States supported the capitalism ideology while the Soviet Union supported the communist ideology. Each strived to spread its ideology across the world.