Cold War became a growing threat to world peace, as a direct and indirect consequence, numerous people suffered great misfortunes. The Cold War was a period of confrontation that took place between 1945 and 1990. The world powers did not fight or used weapons against each other but it was fought through Nuclear Arms race, proxy wars, ideological influence and propaganda war. The Cold War had affected international relations in different ways. First and for most was that the world was divided into three distinct camps, the NATO camp, the Warsaw camp, and the nonaligned. The first two camps were armed with nuclear weapons. The Cold War increased tensions within international community because of the actions of the two superpowers. Although the Cold War caused and exacerbated conflict in some parts of the world, it also maintained order and peace that existed and made possible the reconstruction and assimilation of defeated powers like Germany, Italy and the transformation of Japan from a war-torn country to the second most powerful economy in the world.

Anukriti Srivastava

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