In the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations, a byproduct of an international attempt to create a peaceful plan, immediately established peaceful treaties and procedures to bind great nations together . Within two years of the birth of the United Nations, the world's major superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, had already formed culminating tensions and begun an arms race of military, technological and economic advancements. Cold, defined due to the lack of large-scale fighting between the Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union, and the Western Bloc, the United States. Already disappointing with its foundations and policies, the United Nations' first decades of development were stagnant. The Cold War had put the world at risk of the potential outbreak of nuclear war and destroyed any evidence of a peaceful society globally. What would eventually lead to branching wars, such as the Korean War between the South and North Korean government dictatorships and the Vietnam War, the Cold War started numerous conflicts around the world. Including the Space Race, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Crisis, and the Suez Crisis, the United Nations has often proven itself to be an unsuccessful organization, failing to live up to its founding principles in the context of the Cold War. However, with the development of Peacekeeping in the 1950s, the symbolic “Blue Helmets” came into action during the Suez Crisis of 1956. Additionally, the UN mediated the Berlin Crisis through negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union , in 1949, ending the blockade that caused the crisis. Although the UN helped prevent a massive nuclear war, however, in 1993, 2 years after the negotiated end of the war, the UN witnessed great relief from the transition... middle of paper... practices of others branches of power that the United Nations cannot grasp. In contrast, the virtues of the United Nations remain undeniably constant throughout history, but the organization's powers and legislative action fluctuate due to constantly increasing conflicts. However, throughout the history of the 20th century and after the Cold War conflict, the organization's reach has increased, for example through the actions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the ongoing tasks of US peacekeeping missions. United Nations. These actions, reflected in the United Nations fiasco during the Cold War, demonstrate the emerging “political-economic” society, exerting a prodigious impact on the world through its many organizational traits. However, the legacy of the United Nations during the Cold War was the ideal of an enterprising and effective organization capable of meeting the standards of the new century.