CON. This restricted trade towithin the Soviet Union. These measures to isolate the enemy and set upeconomic barriers helped to provoke the Cold War.The Soviet Union and the west also formed political alliances to combatthe other side. Western Europe and the United States formed NATO, a militarypact. The Soviet Union created a similar pact, the Warsaw Pact, between thestates within the Soviet Union. These military coalitions put a greater threatbehind the growing conficts by involving more countries. These militaryalliances were supplemented by two edicts set by the Soviet Union and theUnited States. The United States issued the Truman Doctrine, which stated thatthey would support those countries resisting communism. Likewise, the SovietUnion later issued the Brezhnev Doctrine which decreed that the Soviet Unionwould intervene with force in order to protect communism in its satellites.One of the main issues that strained relations between the Soviet Union and thewest was the threat of nuclear war. Both the Soviet Union and the United Statesknew how to make nuclear weapons. This knowledge made the consequencesof their actions much more cautious. This helped to cause the war during theCuban Missle Crisis where the Soviet Union planted nuclear missiles at theUnited States from Cuba for a time.The Cold War was brought about by many factors caused at the end of WorldWar II. The idealogical differences, economic barriers, political and militaryalliances, and nuclear weapons all contributed to creating the Cold War. Thesedifferences caused the mounting tension between the Soviet Union and the westat the end of World War II....
