Underlying causes

ECONOMIC:

• both sides spent a lot of money on military and this would be diverted onto living standards
• needs on both sides to improve social reform
• de-stalinization
• would have been expensive for USSR to continue confrontation with the West
• instead of using money to produce weapons it went to social reform

NUCLEAR THREAT:

• by 1955, USSR and US had Hydrogen Bombs which was more power than…