Cold war

The Cold war was a time where the ideas of communism and the idea of capitalism collided a lot during those rough times. The war was between the 2 superpowers of the world USSR and US. The USSR spreading Communism and the U.S. spreading the idea of capitalism. There was no actual war however it was a competition of who could "stick their chest out more''.  An example of this is the race to space where the russians got to space, but almost immediately the Americans sent apollo 11 to the moon. There were also many proxy wars between the two such as in Vietnam and Afghanistan. Furthermore the ideology that the USSR was spreading was very different than the original meaning of communism which was that of a political theory that advocated class war and lead to a society with all property being publicly owned. The ideology that the USSR was spreading, was that of communism becoming something more of a dictatorship rather than the original meaning. However since both countries had so much influence because of their superpower natures they imposed their ideologies such as russia on cuba and the U.S. on germany as after world war 2 the U.S. had a very large influence on the germans.  All in all the cold war was a battle of ideologies and influence.