Cold War and Butter Battle Book

the cold War and Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book have similarities and differences. one similarity is the idea of an arms race. in the Butter Battle Book one side tries to make weapons to keep the other sides away. although by the time the first side created their weapons, the other side d the same thing. this compares to the cold war because the united states and the soviets were fighting and creating different weapons such as the hydrogen bomb and ICBMs. another similarity is the wall that separated the two sides in the Butter Battle Book. this represents the Iron Curtain that symbolically divided the Soviets from the rest of the world. one difference is that in the Cold War, the Americans were paranoid about having traitors on their side. in the butter battle book neither side was paranoid about traitors.
i feel that Dr. Seuss' message was that the Cold War was just a match between two sides trying to out do each other. also, he feels that there were traitors and spies on the sides of the Americans.