Cold War

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The Berlin Crisis (or, Berlin Blockade) of 1948-1949 was resolved through a combination of two related factors. The first was Allied resourcefulness and determination, with a nearly miraculous effort being made to keep West Berlin supplied through many months of land-access isolation. The second was the (very realistic and otherwise sensible) willingness of the Soviet Union to concede defeat in its bid for control of West Berlin.

The Cuban Missile Crisis severely strained the US and Soviet relations. The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day ordeal in October 1962 involving Cuba and the Soviet Union against the US. This time was the closest to being a nuclear conflict in the Cold War.

The Cold War resulted in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

By definition, the Cold War was the period between 1945 and 1990 when the powerful countries did not go to war against each other but yet they tried to build up their military strength. There were wars with secondary countries and there were clashes, usually accidental, but this was a time of general peace.

* He gave many a sense of service to their country. * He confronted the USSR and won the Cuban Missile Crisis. * He created both the Peace Corps and the Green Berets. * He set the goal for peaceful Space Exploration.

Reagan's suspicion of the Soviet Union and its presumed activities around the world was tempered by a desire to leave some kind of legacy in arms control.

The switch from Brinksmanship to Détente was a joint policy shift by both the US and the Soviet Union. Neither nation could have done it alone. (1) Both nations understood that a state of Mutually Assured Destruction had been reached, and that a war between the superpowers risked nuclear devastation. Both nations agreed that it was time to lessen the tensions between them and reduce the risk of a catastrophic confrontation. (2) Both nations had spent vast fortunes on the nuclear arms race, as well as domestically. Both recognized that continued tactical spending on that scale was economically inadvisable, if not unsustainable. (3) Both nations realized the importance of improving their economic positions by opening new trade markets with with nations of the "other side" which were off limits during the Cold War. (4) There were concerns in the Soviet Union regarding the deterioration of Chinese-Soviet relations. When the the People's Republic of China agreed to open diplomatic relations with the US's Nixon administration, the Soviet leadership saw a need to improve US-Soviet relations to head off a US-Chinese alliance that would threaten the Soviet Union economically and militarily. (5) Both nations had growing domestic anti-war and anti-nuclear sentiments. Both Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev hoped that thawing international tensions would increase their respective popularity and political power.

Not really--but it has evolved perhaps into a different kind of conflict.

The Cold War was a war fought between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1945 and the early 1990s until the dissolution of the Berlin Wall and of the Soviet Union itself. Although it was a "cold" war in most respects, several smaller "hot" wars were battles of the Cold War: Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Afghanistan, etc.

Once the Warsaw Pact dissolved and most of its former members became members of NATO, along with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, we can probably regard the Cold War as we knew it to be over.

However, after a brief period of warming, relations between Russia (the successor state to the Soviet Union) and the West have become quite chilly again. Russia doesn't wield the same international influence it once did, however, so this new chill in relations probably doesn't fit the definition of a new or continuing cold war.

In the post-Cold War era, relations between China and India and the West have become more the focus of the international system.

Answer this question… How did the establishment of NATO affect the Cold War?

The Cold War affected Latin America very differently than Asia or Africa. Latin America felt a time of oppression and fear. Asia was a target of consumption to communism, the communists wanted to encompass Asia to gain momentum. Africa was a place where the USSR wanted to gain people. In turn Africa got military and supply support.

Sir Winston Churchill...the Prime Minister of the UK during the 2nd World War

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The US OUT-PRODUCED all nations in everything during WW2.

Berlin was divided by the victorious allied governments: the Soviet Union controlled the eastern sector; the British were to control the Northern sector;

the French were given the smallest sector wedged between the British and the

Americans in the Southern sector. This arrangement was threatened when the Soviets in 1947 tried to blockade the entire city, hoping to force the western allies to depart from Berlin and hand it over to the Communists. It didn't happen because the Americans and British organized an amazing airlift that proved to be highly successful. This would endear the Germans to the west forever! Few know this but Vienna, Austria was also divided by the wartime allied governments until 1955. Unlike Berlin, the Soviets voluntarily left and pulled back to Hungary and East Germany. Berlin would remain divided until the Berlin Wall came down and reunification in Nov 1989.

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The first US President of the Atomic Age, and the first Commander in Chief to fight a conventional war against the forces of communism.

I guess you could say that Germany (the home nation for the Nazi Party) was the first country taken over by the Nazis. Next would come Austria in 1936 & Czechoslovakia in 1938 before the war began. Then with the start of the war: Poland in 1939. Other countries were defeated & conquered in 1940 & 1941.

Egypt gets 1.5 Billion a year from US

The Berlin Wall and the Iron curtain, its right. :)

Four war events that I consider major are 1) the continuation of US involvement in Vietnam from 1970 to 1975, 2) the Yom Kippur War of 1973 in which Israel fought Egypt and Syria, 3) The Lebanese Civil War which began in 1975 and lasted through 1980 and beyond, and 4) the beginning of the Soviet-Afghan War in 1980. There were many other conflicts between 1970 and 1980, some of them tied in with the Cold War and some not, but I regard these as minor instead of major.

Almost forgot.....5) The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, one of several wars fought between India and Pakistan.

Nothing was good about the cold war. It seemed that we had to always be prepared for something to happen either on or around the Berlin Wall or along a border area between Russia and another country. The threat of nuclear war was always there too, so there were "duck and cover drills" in schools ( we would have been cinder dust before we ever hit the floor if one had been dropped) and air raid sirens would go off every so often. It was always a "them" and "us" thinking. It seemed that war could happen at anytime with any small thing. In looking back the only thing I see today was that was good is that we knew who the enemy was. There were uniforms and tanks and borders. Today with the threat of terrorist actions it seems that an event to hurt people can happen at anytime and you don't know who did it or why. They don't wear uniforms or belong to a state/country, but are a group of some sort. This has made our world smaller in some ways.

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1954, the senate voted to censure, or formally criticize, him for "conduct unbecoming a senator"

Honestly, you have to think about things that make you happy. Once your mind is concentrated on something else, the shot already have been given. Remember why you are getting it and think of the benefits only. Remember positive thoughts and though you may be scared you will calm down.

Tell the nurse to give you a three count. Take a deep breath. Don't look and exhale on the count of three. It's physically hard to tense up when you are exhaling deeply ?

Containment was coined by George Kennan, one of our few Russian experts and serves as an ambassador to Russia. He looks at the problem with the Soviet Union and writes the Long Telegram and said the soviets will only understand force, but we don't have to go to war and we should focus on containing them. He stated that we have a vital and peripheral areas and that we just have to keep them from spreading to our vital areas of interest (Western and Eastern Hemisphere and Japan). In order to contain the Soviet Union, we needed military alliances, military preparedness and he recommends foreign aid.