At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwellused cold war, as a general term, in his essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune. Contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear warfare, Orwell wrote:"For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications-that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of "cold war" with its neighbors."[1]
In The Observer of March 10, 1946, Orwell wrote that "[a]fter the Moscow conference last December, Russia began to make a 'cold war' on Britain and the British Empire."[2]
The first use of the term to describe the post-World War II geopoliticaltensions between the USSR and its satellites and the United States and its western European allies is attributed to Bernard Baruch, an American financier and presidential advisor.[3] In South Carolina, on April 16, 1947, he delivered a speech (by journalist Herbert Bayard Swope)[4]saying, "Let us not be deceived: we are today in the midst of a cold war."[5] Newspaper reporter-columnist Walter Lippmann gave the term wide currency, with the book The Cold War; when asked in 1947 about the source of the term, he referred it to a French term from the 1930s, la guerre froide.[6]
At the time it seemed that two such powerful nations as the US and the USSR had no choice but to struggle for global domination. Neither could trust the other, and both were therefore constantly maneuvering for strategic advantage. In retrospect, the Cold War was pointless.
The two opposing ideologies that waged the Cold War and created two major political boundaries were Communism and Democracy.
World domination by the Soviet Union or the United States
The Cold War was a political war between the United States and its allies (forming NATO) and the Soviet Union and its puppet states (forming the Warsaw Pact). It was the US and Soviet Union battling to be the world's only superpower.
The Cold War did not impact WW2 at all, because it happened later.
The cold war was not an actual 'war'. However there were several times that it came close to becoming a war though. I hear about that if the tension and push for expansion of the USSR continued and they advanced on the other sectors and captured them that there might have been another World war.
The Vietnam War was a "hot" battle of the COLD WAR. The "cold war" was a non-shooting war waged against communism.
The two opposing ideologies that waged the Cold War and created two major political boundaries were Communism and Democracy.
The two opposing ideologies that waged the Cold War and created two major political boundaries were Communism and Democracy.
World domination by the Soviet Union or the United States
False.
king Philips war was waged in 1637
cold wars
Yes, all Hebrew kings waged war.Yes, all Hebrew kings waged war.
No, there were nuclear weapons in Cuba, but war was never waged, that's why it is part of the Cold War. The only fighting parts (the Hot Parts) of the Cold War were Vietnam, Korea. The Cuban missile crisis was not a Hot War.
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The Cold War was a political war between the United States and its allies (forming NATO) and the Soviet Union and its puppet states (forming the Warsaw Pact). It was the US and Soviet Union battling to be the world's only superpower.
The Romans WAGED war against every country that surrounded them.