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It was mainly fought with words and arms. It was a large arms race that didn't include any fighting. Excuse me. I thought the Cold War had a lot of fighting: Greece, Angola, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Hungary, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Cuba, Chile, and any others where Communism and Democracy vied for supremecy. Relations between the nuclear powers were cold, but there were plenty of hot spots in the Third World. The arms race was not the Cold War. The arms race was simply one aspect of the Cold War. ---- I believe that both of the above answers have valid points. But I see the term "Cold" as as era between the US & Soviet Union whereby both had the military nuclear power to start a war; however, did not, because such a war would have assured a mutual mass destruction as well as that of the world. It was basically a war of Communist expansionism & influence versus US expansionism & influence in terms of ideologies and as a product, various regional wars were fought between puppet nations of the US and the former Soviet Union; albeit, the US and the Soviet Union never went to war directly against one another.
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What was the term for the conflict between the US and Soviet Union after World War II?
The Cold War.
The term bomber gap was used during the cold war for the primary purpose of?
Greatly increase military spending
They used the term Cold War to describe the tensions between the US and the Soviet Union because it is always so cold in Russia true or false?
False .
Who first used the term Cold War?
http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/site/comments/cold_war/ Dave Wilton, Sunday, June 04, 2006Claim for coinage of cold war is disputed. It was probably coined independently by both George Orwell and by journalist and speechwriter Herbert Bayard Swope. It is often ascribed to columnist Walter Lippmann, who did not coin it but was instrumental in popularizing the term. Prize for first published use goes to George Orwell who used it in a 19 October 1945 article in the Tribune: A State which was...in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbours. But it was Swope's independent coinage that inspired others to use the term. Swope used the phrase in a draft speech for Bernard Baruch in 1946. Baruch omitted the phrase from the final draft of the 1946 speech, but did use it in a 1947 speech in Columbia, South Carolina: Let us not be deceived-today we are in the midst of a cold war. Baruch repeated the phrase in 1948 Senate testimony and it was picked up and used by Lippmann. Lippmann later stated that he was familiar with a French phrase, la guerre froide, from the 1930s. Swope recounts his coinage of the term in a 10 May 1950 letter to Lippmann: The first time the idea of the cold war came to me was probably in '39 or '40 when America was talking about a "shooting" war. I had never heard that sort of qualification. To me "shooting" war was like saying death murder-rather tautologous, verbose and redundant. I thought the proper opposite of the so-called hot war was cold war, and I used that adjective in the early '40s in some letters I wrote, before our war. I may have been subconsciously affected by the term cold pogrom which was being used to describe the attitude of the Nazis toward the Jews in the middle '30s. I never heard the French expression to which you refer. According to the Wikipedia article on the subject, "The term "Cold War" was introduced in 1947 by Americans Bernard Baruch and Walter Lippman to describe emerging tensions between the two former wartime allies", the United States and the USSR.
What were some important long-term and short-term causes of the cold war?
economical, religous,socialcauses etc.
Is hot war the dangerous war?
The term "hot war" was only used in conjuction with the term "cold war." Cold war meaning no war; hot war meaning a war.
What type of weaponry was used during the cold war?
Words. Words are the weaponry of a cold war. The term "Cold War" means "no shooting".
How would you describe the Theories of Cold War?
Cold War means a military stand-off. If there is no war war between two countries, and then they fight, then it is a regular war (which may have to be called a hot war, since everyone is now familiar with the term cold war). The term cold war had NO MEANING until atomic weapons were invented in 1945. The term cold war was first used in 1947.
What term is used to describe going as close to war as possible without starting one?
The term used during the Cold War was "brinksmanship." It refers to going to the brink of war.
What does lovely jumbly mean?
it means eat cheese..it was a term used in the cold war!!
What term was used to describe the tense relation between east and west after 1945?
Cold War.
Hot Wars were found where?
The term "hot war" should, and was intended to be used, only in conjunction with the term "cold war." Meaning that a "cold war" is a non-shooting war; and a "hot war" is a shooting war. Extra examples: 1. People die in "hot wars." 2. People do not die in "cold wars." (accidents don't count).
What was the term for the conflict between the US and Soviet Union after World War II?
The Cold War.
What was destroyed in the cold war?
Since the cold war wasn't actually a war (it was a TERM), nothing was destroyed.
Was The Cold War Declared By Congress?
The cold war was simply a term used. There was no war. The cold war was actually a "Stalemate between two sets of nuclear armed nations" that were waiting for an excuse to press the buttons on each other (buttons which fired nuclear missiles).
What are the long term effects of world war 2?
the long TERM effect was the CoLd WaR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What were the short term effects of the cold war?
The term effects of the Cold War is the Americans and Russians are scared to launch their nuclear missiles at each other.
