What were the major battles of the cold war?

Answer 1

The Cold War is the term used to explain the struggle between the communist nations and the democratic nations following World War II. The Cold War took political, economic, social, and military forms. It would be too extensive a list to indicate all the events of the Cold War. Here are a few of the major events. * The creation of the "Iron Curtain" by the Soviet Union following WW II. This cut off almost all contact between East and West in Europe. * The Marshall Plan and the policy of Containment. * The Berlin Blocade of West Germany by the Soviet Union. * The Berlin Airlift. * Forming of NATO. * Forming of Warsaw Pact. * Forming of Non-Alignment Treaty. * The Korean War (sometimes the Cold War became a hot war). * Problems in the Middle East. The US was attempting to prevent communist expansion in that area. * The U-2 incident during the Eisenhower administration. * Castro and Cuba. * The Bay of Pigs event during the Kennedy administration. * The creation of the Berlin Wall by East Germany and the Soviet Union. * The Cuban Missile Crisis. * The Vietnam War. * Detante * Glasnost and Perestroika. * Falling of the Berlin Wall. * Dissolution of the USSR.

Answer 2

There were only TWO hot battles fought during the cold war. The Korean War (1950-1953) and the Vietnam War (1961-1975).

Addition:

There were alos the Malayan Emergency and the Borneo Confrontation.

Answer 3

Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, Landing a man on the moon (part of the space race), Vietnam War. The Soviets collapsed in 1990. If the Soviets and the Berlin Wall didn't come down until 1991, Operation Desert Storm (Iraq) would have had to take place in 1992 or later. NO military operation like Desert Storm could occur with a Soviet Union INTACT. That is what the cold war was all about. No one could do anything without one or the other superpowers (Soviet Union, Red China, or the US) getting into a physical confrontation. Desert Storm would have caused a confrontation with the USSR.

Answer 4

The nuclear confrontation during the Cuban Missile Crisis of '62. President Kennedy's assassination in 1963. The military was put on alert in case the communists wished to strike during a period of no US Commander in Chief. Stopping the Communists in Korea. Stopping the Communists in Vietnam.

Answer 5

Its hard to tell what the major conflicts were. Its all determined by what you focused on. Most people think the Major conflicts were the Korean war, Vietnam war, and the Cuban missile crisis.

Answer 6

There were many major turning points in the development of the cold war. Included were the Soviet development of the atomic bomb, the advent of Fascism, Russia's invasion of Afghanistan and the Soviet boycott of the United Nations.

Answer 7

Winning the space race by landing a man on the moon in 1969. The Cuban Missile Crisis of '62. The Korean War 1950-1953. The Vietnam War 1961-1975. Assassinations through out the 1960's.

Answer 8

The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 created the ATOMIC AGE. The Atomic Age created the cold war.