Cold War

They were able to take control of eastern Europe after world war 2 by giving ,the poor countries that lost a lot of money and infrastructure, money and aid with a condition that these countries become communist.

The Berlin Blockade and airlift were important for the development of the Cold war because it was one of the first crises which happened during the Cold War. The Berlin Blockade changed many people's lives in West Berlin as the Soviets had blocked food supplies, energy supplies and gas to West Berlin by closing all roads and railways. This lead to the USA and Britain having to supply West Berlin by sending airplanes filled with supplies to West Berlin. In order for West Berlin to survive, they needed 4000 tonnes of food a day which meant that aeroplanes filled with supplies landed every 30 seconds. This was called the Berlin airlift. As a result of this, 79 American and British pilots lost their lives. In May 1949 Stalin called off the Berlin Blockade as the Soviets realised that the people of West Berlin were managing fine with the help of the USA and the UK.

Start of Communist fears was when USA effectively ended WW2 by dropping worlds most powerful bomb on Japan. This was the atomic bomb, which the USSR was yet to fully utilise.

examples - Berlin blockade, U2 incident, Cuban missile crisis

USSR bluff on weapons

Americans had more + superior missiles

Reasons it didnt esculate - was more a game of 'brinksmanship', meaning the two main superpowers (USA and USSR) were simply trying to scare the other country into laying down its weapons, which would bring about greater peace and eliminate the threat of nuclear war. However, the reason it at first esculated into a 'COld War' is that neither side was willing to back down, and so the atmosphere and actions became more extreme.

It took the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1963 to make both countries realise their could be no winner.

A telephone hotlink was established between Washington and Moscow, and agreements such as SALT followed.

NOOBU CONTRIBUTION However, the most impotant factor is the new leadership of russia. Gorbachev was more willing to have diplomatic ventures with USA rather than the previous leaders. Gorbachev also introduced 2 reforms which may seem contentious to the communist hardliners. Perestroika and Glasnost deteriorated the economy of russia, this resulted in less spending in military armaments.

the policy of containment said that America shall not go to war with countries that are already Communist or if the willingly become it.. But the U.S. will go to was if the country asked for help against communism

The Cold War is a reference to something else, not literally cold, but because no shots were ever fired. The Cold War was a race to the moon, and to who could make the most nuclear weapons fastest. Hope I helped.

Russiea and America, two superpowers, lead to the Cuban Missle Crisis, brought the world to the brink of an all out destructive war. Treaties, like the Non-Proliferation Treaty, were signed and awareness was raised. The USSR was dissolved and Russia was formed. This is not a conclusive answer.

The Soviet government was a dictatorship. The citizens had very little personal freedom and individual rights. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press was very limited. Religion was discouraged- most of the leaders professed to be atheists and the state turned the old churches into museums. The Soviet army had taken advantage of World War II to move Soviet troops into Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Austria and refused to withdraw after the war ended, setting up oppressive puppet governments kept in power by Soviet military might. Moreover, with the help of German engineers, the Soviets had developed atomic weapons, rockets and missiles. etc. and appeared to pose a serious military threat to the United States and Western Europe.

The United States of America manipulated the USSR economic system through sabortage and other negative activities towards USSR state and its economy creating cracks which resulted into USSR breaking apart.

The Korean War directly resulted in the US NOT INVADING North Vietnam.

With great generosity. The US Merchant Fleet was rushing war supplies and essential supplies of all kinds to the USSR on the Murmansk run. It was doing this at great risk.

For the United States, it is different because it is the only war we lost (in that the enemy actually conquered the country) and it was the US's longest war depending upon who you are listening to, from the 1950's to 1975, or 1961 thru 1973, etc. As far as returning servicemen being treated harshly by their own countrymen (citizens), Vietnam DID stand out as being different for that reason too. However, the Vietnam War may not be alone in that department. During the US Civil War 1861-1865, returning Confederate soldiers (true, they were NOT US Soldiers, they were confederate soldiers, but Americans none the less) were blamed by their own countrymen (citizens) for losing the war, and were treated harshly by the people from the northeren states as "traitors". Confederates (Rebels) and Union (Yankees) men were re-united as fellow Americans and one nation during the Spanish American War of 1898, in which the wounds from the Civil War were considered healed, when former Rebels and Yankees fought together side by side against Spain in 1898. They, together, returned home to parades and a welcome home coming, together as a united people. In 1991, President Bush (Senior) announced to the world (we) America had defeated "the Vietnam Syndrome", when our victorious US troops paraded home from their successful campaign against Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. America was again united as a one people.

North Korea invaded South Korea
At the end of World War II, Japan surrendered Korea to the Allies. The country was then divided into two parts, North Korea and South Korea. The United States withdrew its troops when the Republic of Korea was set up. They provided economic support. On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea. The United States then backed up South Korea and fought with them. So did many other Allied countries. In the first few weeks of the war, North Korean forces met little resistance and advanced rapidly. By September tenth, the South Korean Army had been driven to the Southeast tip of South Korea. On September fifteenth, the United Nations forces made a daring counterattack. They landed at Incheon. This was on the West coast. On October nineteenth, the North Korean capitol was captured. Eventually the U.N troops drove the North Korean troops to the border of China. China saw this as a threat and launched a counteroffensive. The communist forces worked together to force the U.N back to South Korea. They then captured the South Korean capitol. The fighting was eventually drawn back to the borders of the two countries. The border was called the 38th parallel. That is where it remained for the rest of the war. The countries never signed a treaty so technically they are still at war.
North Korea (at the time classified as a 'Communist Satellite State') invaded South Korea in June 1950. This invasion force was countered by a US-led UN force, which was in turn countered by Chinese intervention on the North Korean side.
The North Korean military attacked South Korea.
There was no long term cause. North & South Korea were NEW countries that never existed before. They came into existence in 1945 when WW2 ended. The cause was one country trying to conquer the other. The North taking over the South.
The North invaded the South.

Yes and no. The U.S. prevented South Korea from falling to communism, but failed to unite Korea under a non-communist government.

The Berlin Wall is considered to have "fallen" in 1989. Border crossing points all along the wall were opened to anyone who wanted to cross on 9 November 1989, following the conclusion of an international press conference in East Berlin, when greater freedom of travel was announced for people of the German Democratic Republic (prior to this date, East Germans were only allowed to enter the West under strict conditions). Earlier that evening, the East German government spokesman, Günther Schabowski, had announced on TV that East Germans would be allowed to travel abroad freely but didn't announce the date when this would come into effect. A huge crowd gathered in Unter den Linden in East Berlin and simply demanded the right to cross into West Berlin. The guards at the Brandenburg Gate were at a loss as to what to do. In the end they decided to let people cross over and merely put a rubber stamp in their passports. Then the number reached the point where even that was no longer possible. The official demolition of the Berlin wall began on 13 June 1990, and was undertaken by former East German border guards under a democratically elected government.

(Note. Since 4 September 1989 there had been huge demonstrations (so-called Monday Demonstrations) against political repression and the regime demanding a wide range of reforms. The protest crystallized round the right to travel abroad. Until 9 November 1989 one could only travel to the West with the permission of the authorities).

The Warsaw Pact was the alliance that was made by communist Eastern European countries that the Soviet Union controlled. It was a military alliance that was formed in 1955, during the Cold War.

From 1910 until the end of World War Two, Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire, and therefore Emperor Hirohito was its head of state. The emperor's representative during that period was the Governor General, resident in Seoul. (For a list of Governors General, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_Korea.)

It was only after World War II that the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to split Korea into two zones of occupation, ostensibly in order to speed up the surrender of Japanese troops and to get them out of Korea faster.

The story goes that two US State Department officials (Bonesteel and Rusk) took out a National Geographic Magazine map and saw that the 38th parallel of latitude divided the Korean peninsula almost equally into half, while keeping the capital, Seoul, within the southern (American) zone of occupation. That is why they arbitrarily decided to make that the dividing line between Soviet and American forces.

North Korea (officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) was not formally a state until September 1948, when the foundation of that state was declared, and Kim Il Sung its president.

Certainly, or at least as much so as the Soviets and Chinese were. Many people view that war as a war amongst Koreans, but there was outside intervention going on well before the United Nations got involved.

(1948-49) International crises that arose from an attempt by the Soviet Union to force the Allied powers (U.S., Britain, and France) to abandon their postwar jurisdictions in West Berlin. The Soviets, regarding the economic consolidation of the three Allied occupation zones in Germany in 1948 as a threat to the East German economy, blockaded all transportation routes between Berlin and West Germany. The U.S. and Britain responded by supplying the city with food and other supplies by military air transport and airlifting out West Berlin exports. An Allied embargo on exports from the Eastern bloc forced the Soviets to lift the blockade after 11 months.

Afghanistan provided one of the 'safe' locations for training of terrorists. There were rebels that that created training camps. It is believed that the planning for the terrorist activity that bombed the Twin Towers in New York.

The Cold war was between the USA and the Soviet Union, so when the Berlin Wall came crashing down the war was over but the war left a horrifying after mass and it effected the entire world.

The United States competed with the Soviet Union during the Cold War by containing the Soviet Union from spreading communism. The U.S. did this by forming NATO, a group formed by President Truman in order to contain communism.

Stalin promised protection and to work with the USSR.

1. Soviet Union had a communist government while U.S. was always based on democracy

That being said, the differences include all the features of communism such as equality and taking over aspects of life in their citizens

2. Soviet Union collapsed, U.S. is still here