Negative: 1  Pollution increased, working conditions were harmful, and with the employed of women and young children, making them work long and hard hours. 2  From the time of its start, the factories and industry has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by two-folds.
Causes of the Cold War. Cite This Source. Causes of the Cold War Summary & Analysis. In 1945, the United States and Soviet Union were allies, jointly triumphant in World War II, which ended with total victory for Soviet and American forces over Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe.
Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving as premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida.