How was a balance of power established between the US and the Soviet Union

The balance of power in the Cold War was mainly kept through the development and possession of nuclear weapons. There was practically an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union for most of the Cold War era.

Nevertheless, the development of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction was not meant to actually prevail in a hypothetical war, but to deter the rival superpower. A strategic military doctrine was adopted then: mutual assured destruction , or MAD. The MAD doctrine held that  the probability of being destroyed by enemy nuclear strikes was a deterrence factor that forced the two superpowers to coexist.

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1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

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