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Because the USSR had nuclear bombs that they were threatening to use on the Americans.
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What was the greatest fear of the cold war?
technically there is no answer for that because that would be an opinion and not a fact so no proven answer
Why was cold war so significant?
It was a mass scare, people all around the world lived in fear that a bomb could go off in your home.
What was the point of calling the cold war the cold war when no one was at war?
Ah, but the East and West were very much at war: A war of ideologies, a war of political one-upsmanship, a war of nerves. The only thing it didn't have was shooting. So no hot guns blazing away, as in a typical "hot" war. Just nerves and hubris - a "cold" war.
Are the issues that affected the cold war still existant?
Very much so, and with the same countries by and large.
Why the return of fear after the end of World War 2?
fear returned because in the war everyone had to be brave because the fear of being killed or bombs falling and after the war there was no bombs or war goin on so people were free to be scared.
How did the cold war effect the US and china's relationship?
the china did't wan't the cold war to effect them so they fought to stop the cold war
What were three major battles fought in the cold war?
so what were the major battles of the cold war and why
Events that happened in the cold war?
At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union was suspicious of the intentions of the United States. After all, the US invaded the Soviet Union after World War I. The Soviets wanted nuclear weapons. The Soviets captured much of Eastern Europe and held on to it so that the Warsaw Pact countries was a counter to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. So there was a cold war of spying and a balance of power. Hot spots in the war was the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Berlin Airlift.
During the Cold War why was the Soviet Union bombing England?
It was a COLD war so nobody was bombed.
What was the comparasion between the Korean War and the cold war?
Korea was a "hot" portion of the "cold" war. No one died during the "Cold War" because NO WAR was fought. Cold War meant NO WAR. Cold War=Military Standoff. Cold War was just a "Term" for not shooting at each other, but ready to push the buttons once they got the word to do so. The Korean War was a war, like any other shooting, killing, destroying war. It just so happened to be the FIRST war (Besides Indochina) of the Atomic Age involving the US.
Was the Vietnam war necessary?
As necessary as the cold war was....so yes
How many people fear selling?
many many ppl they can fear it from gaining to much money or so and so
