Cold War

The cause of World War II was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife by a teenage Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip.

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World war two was held through out the world. That's why it was called a world war. The Germans were being fought in North Africa, Europe, and Russia while the Japanese were being fought in the Pacific and in Asia.

Stalin created the Korean War.

It is known generally as the Bay of Pigs, for the location in Cuba where the attempted invasion took place.
Because it is and it happened

because Berlin was the only place where America and England had control of in the east part of Russia during the cold war, so stop other countries turning into communism, they put a lot of money into west Berlin, to persuade people that life is better without communism.

The statement is incorrect; Ronald Reagan won the cold war. The key is to prevent the war from becoming "hot"; to prevail against the enemy without actual combat.

The key to Reagan's victory was in forcing the Soviet Union to spend so much money on the military that the rest of the economy would collapse, and this is pretty much what happened. His "Strategic Defense" initiative, pejoratively named "star wars", would have provided some defense against ballistic missiles. An ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) system doesn't have to be perfect; it simply needs to increase the level of uncertainty that a Soviet first strike would have destroyed the US missile force. Between this and the intermediate range missiles deployed to Europe, and Soviets were unable to afford enough offensive ability to destroy it all. The Soviets tried - and collapsed their economy. The Soviet Union disintegrated. We won the cold war.

They had a mutual respect for each other, and both ultimately were striving for the same thing. Ronald Reagan is frequently cited as the man who toppled Communism and ended the Cold War, but I feel Gorbachev deserves a lot more of the credit than Reagan does.

South Vietnam was the turf of the Viet Cong (VC). NVA moved through Laos & Cambodia via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Although, the VC could use sanctuaries in Cambodia (COSVN-Central Office South Vietnam; which we went after, under Nixon's Cambodian Invasion (Incursion) on 01 May 1970-resulting in the Kent State University Shooting on 04 May 1970).

President Truman, a man not fond of Communism, hinted at and essentially teased Stalin over the US's possession of Nuclear Weapons (this is prior to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki). When Stalin asked for a working bomb, or even just the plans: Truman refused. After World War II ended, relations between the US and USSR were icy at best, and tensions continued to mount: with Germany and Eastern Europe became a land-grab between the two powers.

war of words, buildup of arms, satellite nations, space race, and propaganda

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The director of the CIA under Eisenhower, who advocated extensive use of covert operations. Most notable among Dulles's initiatives were U.S.-sponsored coups in Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954, which installed pro-American governments in order to curb potential expansion of Communism. Although Eisenhower favored such covert operations because they were relatively low-cost and attracted little attention, the coups in Iran and Guatemala proved rather transparent and caused international anger toward the United States.

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Secretary of state under Eisenhower (and brother of Allen Dulles) who helped devise Eisenhower's New Look foreign policy. Dulles's policy emphasized massive retaliation with nuclear weapons. In particular, Dulles advocated the use of nuclear weapons against Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces in Vietnam.

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A World War II hero and former supreme commander of NATO who became U.S. president in 1953 after easily defeating Democratic opponent Adlai E. Stevenson. Eisenhower expanded New Deal-era social welfare programs such as Social Security and passed the landmark Federal Highway Act to improve national transportation. However, he cut back funding to other domestic programs to halt what he called "creeping socialism." His New Look at foreign policy, meanwhile, emphasized nuclear weapons and the threat of massive retaliation against the Soviet Union in order to cut costs and deter the USSR from spreading Communism abroad. Eisenhower committed federal dollars to fighting Communists in Vietnam, resolved the Suez crisis, and authorized CIA-sponsored coups in Iran and Guatemala.

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The nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement, which sought to liberate Vietnam from French colonial rule throughout the 1950s. After being rebuffed by the United States, Ho received aid from the USSR and won a major victory over French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This French defeat forced the Geneva Conference of 1954, which split Vietnam into Communist-dominated North Vietnam and French-backed South Vietnam.

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The thirty-fifth U.S. president, who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program. Kennedy was elected in 1960, defeating Republican Richard M. Nixon. Feeling that their hands were tied by Eisenhower's policy of "massive retaliation," Kennedy and members of his foreign policy staff devised the tactic of "flexible response" to contain Communism. Kennedy sent "military advisors" to support Ngo Dinh Diem's corrupt regime in South Vietnam and formed the Alliance for Progress to fight poverty and Communism in Latin America. He also backed the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, which ultimately led to the Cuban missile crisis. In 1963, after Kennedy had spent roughly 1,000 days in office, he was assassinated, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson took office.

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The head of the Soviet Communist Party and leader of the USSR from 1958 until the early 1960s. Initially, many Americans hoped Khrushchev's rise to power would lead to a reduction in Cold War tensions. Khrushchev toured the United States in 1959 and visited personally with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland. The U-2 incident and 1962 Cuban missile crisis, however, ended what little amity existed between the two nations and repolarized the Cold War. Party leaders, upset with Khrushchev for having backed down from the Cuban missile crisis, removed him from power in 1964.

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Five-star American general who commanded Allied forces in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, MacArthur led the American occupation in Japan, helped establish a democratic government there, and in large part rewrote the country's new constitution outlawing militarism. He later commanded United Nations forces in Korea, driving North Korean forces back north of the 38th parallel after making the brilliant Inchon landing. He ignored Chinese warnings not to approach the North Korean-Chinese border at the Yalu River, however, and was subsequently driven back down to the 38th parallel by more than a million Chinese troops. President Harry S Truman later rejected MacArthur's request to bomb North Korea and China with nuclear weapons. MacArthur's public criticism of the president's decision prompted Truman to remove him from command in 1951.

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Republican senator from Wisconsin who capitalized on Cold War fears of Communism in the early 1950s by accusing hundreds of government employees of being Communists and Soviet agents. Although McCarthy failed to offer any concrete evidence to prove these claims, many Americans fully supported him. He ruined his own reputation in 1954 after humiliating himself during the televised Army-McCarthy hearings. Disgraced, he received an official censure from the Senate and died an alcoholic in 1957.

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The nationalist, Communist-leaning president of Egypt who seized the British-controlled Suez Canal in 1956, after economic aid negotiations among Egypt, Great Britain, and the United States fell apart. Nasser's action precipitated the Suez crisis, in which Eisenhower uncharacteristically backed the Communist-leaning Nasser and cut off all oil exports to Great Britain and France.

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Republican congressman from California who rose to national fame as a prominent member of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the late 1940s when he successfully prosecuted Alger Hiss for being a Communist. Nixon later served as vice president under Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961. He lost his own bid for the presidency against John F. Kennedy in 1960 but defeated his Democratic opponent eight years later and became president in 1969.

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Vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt who became president upon Roosevelt's death in April 1945 and successfully carried out the remainder of World War II. Truman was instrumental in creating a new international political and economic order after the war, helping to form the United Nations, NATO, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. His Marshall Plan also helped Western Europe rebuild after the war and surpass its prewar levels of industrial production. Determined not to let the Soviet Union spread Communism, Truman adopted the idea of containment, announcing his own Truman Doctrine in 1947. His characterization of the Soviet Union as a force of "ungodly" evil helped shape the Cold War of the next four decades. He also led the nation into the Korean War but eventually fired General Douglas MacArthur for insubordination.

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POLICY OF CONTAINMENT in Actions A. Truman Doctrine 1947: US Prez Truman approved giving $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey (because communist were threatened to take them over) B. US pledged to support countires that rejected communism C. Marshall Plan 1948: $12.5 billion program to provide food, machines, and other materials to countires rebuilding after World War II (keep them strong against communism)

Answer this question… By refusing to back down to Soviet aggression

No actual war; no shooting; no killing; NOT A WAR. The term cold war was a simple and easy term to use. The cold war was actually "the years of stalemate" between the communist world and the free world...but as you can see it doesn't have a "ring" to it...Cold War is easier to say, easier to remember, and sounds alot better.

Brinkmanship occurred in 1956.

The Cold War is called the Cold War, but it was not a war in which the opposing sides fought as they do in other wars. They used all methods short of war to avoid fighting an actual war with each other. That is why it was called the Cold War. Many smaller wars were fought in the Third World, but the Free World and Communism averted a world war with each other. I describe the Cold War was a condition of official non-war in which both sides did their untmost to ruin each other. I hope that makes sense.

Truman ,who was the underdog according to pollsters, ran a great campaign in which he traveled thousands of miles making whistle stops from the back of his rail car. His folksy manner appealed to the rank and file type of people who came out to hear him talk and contrasted sharply with his rich New York Republican opponent.

There were a few organizations that the US formed during the Cold War. Two of the organizations were the Warsaw Pact and NATO.

Because the soviet union had blocked all traffic, electricity, and food to west Berlin hoping for them to surrender so that they would become a communist country. We airlifted supplies there so they wouldn't become communists, since we helped them they wanted to become democratic, just like us

Easing tension with the Soviet Union through arms control and trade agreements

The Cold War could be said to have started in 1918; when at the end of WWI, England and the USA attacked Soviet Siberia. It was a failed attempt to put an end to the Soviet Union. Most people would say the Cold War started in 1945, at the end of WWII, when Russia controlled Eastern Europe by installing puppet governments in the the nations of E.E. that did what the Soviet Union told them to do.

a matter of debate, although several events could be construed:

Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
Election of Lech Walesa's Solidarity Party in Poland (1989)
Velvet Divorce (1993)
Gorbachev's policies of Perestroika and Glasnost

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the concept of 'Perestroika' to reform the failing USSR economy. It is important to note, however, that the goal of perestroika was not to introduce free enterprise, but instead to allow the Soviet ministries limited independent actions along with some minor market-like reforms. The goal of the perestroika was to enable the socialist system to work more efficiently in order to meet the needs of Soviet consumers.

major event that happened during the world war 1 in Sweden?