Cold War

The United States tried to be an enforcer during the Cold War to see that the rules of the Geneva Convention were being followed. The United States is still a major influence in keeping global peace.

The cold war lasted for about 35 years, so the leaders of the countries changed. The leaders when the cold war began were Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union) and Harry S. Truman (U.S.A.). When the cold war ended, the leader of Russia was Mikhail Gorbachev, and the leader of the United States was Ronald Reagan.

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There are numerous culprits here. The US and USSR attempted to influence the oil producing nations. The conflicts involving Israel brought the risk of a hot war involving the super powers close.

America was the captialist superpower and the USSR (Russia) was the communist superpower. The USSR also included most of what we now call east Europe (e.g. East Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Georgia, etc.)

America 'won' the cold war when Russia gave up communism in 1991 due to economic failures.

The Cold War began as World War II was ending. American leaders saw the power and ambitions of the Soviet Union as a threat to our national security. The Cold War was a war of words and ideologies rather than a shooting war, although at times the Cold War turned “hot” as in Korea and Vietnam. Basically, the Cold War was a rivalry between the United States as leader of the western democracies, and the Soviet Union and the nations that were controlled by the communists. There is a good case for the location of the start of the Cold War in the Eastern European nations that the Soviet Army "liberated" from the Nazi Army and then failed to allow free elections, as promised by Stalin at Yalta. Also, when Germany was divided into four zones following the war, the Soviet Union refused to unite its zone with the other three resulting in the creation of East Germany (communist) and West Germany (democratic).

Winston Churchill.

Well, first off there was the war. Lived in Cuba my whole life ain't never seen carnage quite like that. No one really seemed to be alive for years after, it shook the community. But then came The outrageous policies ( Wild animal attacks, food shortages, Gorilla, etc. ) .

Hot war is war in the normal sense of the word, in which two nations are engaged in direct military conflict, trying to kill each other's soldiers and to win battles, either for outright conquest, or to force a favorable peace treaty with concessions that are thought to be necessary (often of a territorial nature). War often includes attacks on civilian populations as well, to weaken the economic and population base that supports the military, as well as to weaken the resolve to fight.

A cold war, in comparison, involves two opposing nations who are using every kind of maneuver to gain the upper hand, short of direct military conflict. This is a unique feature of the nuclear age. Two nations that are both armed with nuclear weapons become more cautious about attacking each other, since any attack could escalate into nuclear war, and the consequences of nuclear war are potentially so horrible that in effect both sides will lose. There is really no point in going to war if the result is going to be the inevitable destruction of the nation that is going to war, even if the enemy nation is also destroyed. Such victories are too costly.

IF the term "containment" was ever used in WW2, it certainly wasn't meant in the same context as the "cold war" containment...there were no nuclear weapons during 99% of WW2. Atomic weapons created the "cold war." Without atomic weapons, the Soviets/Red Chinese/etc. would've been fighting the US more times than just Korea and Vietnam...and they would have been "declared total wars." Since Nukes wouldn't have existed, it would have been "war as usual." Man's been fighting wars since before recorded time. Why should things change now(?)...because of atomic weapons they changed! Nukes DO EXIST; and they have since 1945. Thus, the cold war. It was important because the Communists were violating most of the values that the free world considered important. And the communists were seemingly getting more aggressive...therefore, the free world resisted them.

what party did senator McCarthy feel was a major threat to the United States government

In 1950 anti-communist hysteria began to emerge in the USA as encouraged by the actions of Senator Joe McCarthy who began accusing high-ranking US officials of being communists or at least them selling secrets to the Russians. Many government employees were found guilty about passing on secrets about the Atom Bomb but he eventually lost popularity and then soon power as his accusations grew wilder and cruder each day. All this simply served to increase tension between the two superpowers due to the hysteria created and the detest shown by this senator towards the communists.

As coined in a speech March 5th 1946, by Winston Churchill the term for a symbolic boundary dividing Europe into communist & non communist spheres is "the iron curtain"

the iron center

During the Cold war, China was led by its iconic leader, Mao Zedong, who pledged his country's support and allegiance to the Soviet Union in 1949. Later that year, the People's Republic of China (PRC) was formed, exiling the Republic of China (ROC) to Taiwan.

If he was a college student or mentally and/or physically UNFIT to serve his country.

No..The Russians launched "Sputnik" into space on October 4th, 1957 before anyone else got into space.

collective farms were disbanded and distributed to peasants

There was no iron curtain, there was a barbed wire fence that stretched 6300 km. That was just a name we used to describe people living in Communist Countries.

The term was first used by Churchill in his speech at Fulton.

Approximately 2.30 billion according to the United Nations Population Division.

The world is now using the Airplanes, Automobiles, Motorcycles, Computers, Televisions, Radios, Medical Facilities, Weapons, Sea Going Ships, Bridges, Highways, Space Research Vehicles, all produced or designed or PIONEERED during the cold war.

The satellite nations are the regions between Germany and russia that were formed with the assistance of the UN after the end of WWII. However, Stalin and the communist Soviet Union took these regions over and operated them under a dictatorship. This is the region that Winston churchill was talking about when he made his "iron curtain" speech. A satellite nation is a nation that appears to be sovereign, but is actually under the control of another nation. Examples would be nations such as Hungary and Poland under the USSR. On the face of it, they seemed to be independent nations, but they were actually under the control of Russia as part of the USSR. A satellite nation is an independent nation effectively dominated by another. The classic Cold War example of this is the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union. Virtually all the members of the Warsaw Pact (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc.) were basically just satellite states of Moscow; in other words, they had to run by all of their decisions with the Soviets in Moscow before they could be implemented. In effect they were provinces of the Soviet Union, that the Soviets didn't have to directly administer.

NATO : North Atlantic Treaty Organization .

united nations

The USSR tried to take over everywhere. Germany tried to stay protected. The east was communist. My grandpa told me that "if there was no wall there would be no people (from the east) in the east. TYhey would all go to the west."

Because no bullets were fired.

Actually plenty of bullets and other weapons were fired, just not directly between US and USSR forces. Remember the Korean and Vietnam wars? But no nuclear weapons were fired in combat by anybody.

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