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Cold War
The nuclear arms race divided the world in a struggle as costly as any another war. East vs. West, Communism vs. Democracy, the Bear vs. the Eagle; all these were major factors in the lives of millions for 4 decades.
6,177 Questions
In 1961 the US backed what unsuccessful invasion of Cuba?
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What did the US do in Afghanistan after the defeat of the soviets there?
Relations between the United States and the Soviet Union reached new lows after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Responding to this action, the United States led a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and withdrew its support for a new arms-control treaty. Additionally, after being elected in 1980, Ronald Reagan initiated a massive military buildup and showed a greater willingness to confront communism. Calling the Soviet Union an "evil empire," he provided aid to anti-communist forces in Latin America and ordered the invasion of Grenada in 1983 to prevent the establishment of a communist government there.
Were Russia and the US ever at war against each other?
No state of war has ever existed between the United States and Russia or the former Soviet Union. There existed a "Cold War" where actual fighting did not occur but both sides strategically moved their military machines to out wit the other side. An arms race of sorts occurred which included nuclear buildup as a deterrent. Ultimately the USA won this war in the sense that during the Reagan administration they were able to out spend the Soviet Union whose economy collapsed and was unable to keep up.
What did the two superpowers do to reduce the threat of war during the cold war?
To reduce the threat of war the two sides held several disarmanment talks. One agreement was intended to limit the use of anti-ballistic missles.
Who are the characters in the dark behind the curtain?
Anne, Colin Jackus, Colin Marshall, Miss Lampeter, Mr Grooner
How many men and women died or are missing in Action from the Vietnam war?
Approximately 2,000 US servicemen were MIA or POW. US women during past wars (in the 20th century) were all volunteers and served primarily as nurses. Only 8 US military female nurses died in the Vietnam War. 5 of those women died in 1975 when the C-5 Galaxy transport they were in crashed during take off during Operation Baby Lift-the evacuation of Saigon (when the NVA were over-running the country). Two US military women died in accidents (one jeep and one helicopter accident). Only one US miliary female died from enemy action; when a communist rocket attack hit her hospital.
General LeMay was General of the Air Faorc during the Cuban Missile Crises.
What countries did china influence to become communist or help support communism in?
The Chinese communists primarily influenced North Vietnam. Nearly all of the war equipment used in the Viet War was Chicom: MiG17 & MiG19 jets (Chicom J5 & J6 versions); T54 & PT76 tanks (Chicom T59 & T63 versions); Chicom AK47s, trucks, etc.
The MiG21 jets and SAMs were nearly all Soviet supplied.
How long do satellite take to go around the world?
It all depends on how far away the satellite is from the earth. The first artificial satellites, around 1957 to 1960, were only a few hundred miles off the ground; they went around the world once in about 90 minutes. The satellites people use to get TV with those little dishes on their houses are about 22,000 miles off the ground; they take 23hours and 56minutes to go around the world once. The satellite that's a quarter million miles from earth takes 27 days to go around the world one time.
Kazakhstan
What was the delivery of supplies in a German city to circumvent the Soviet blockade?
That was called the Berlin Airlift. It went on for fifteen months until the Soviets lifted the blockade.
the berlin blockade
When Cold War began and ended?
The Cold War period lasted from the mid-1940s after Nazism has been defeated in the World War II until the end of the 1980s and ended when USSR collapsed..
Harry Truman
Where in Korea was the gyongbokkung built?
Capital, Seoul.
It's in the middle of the city. Can't miss it.
The Russians under Stalin were tense that the US had an atomic bomb and they did not. They made developing their own atomic bombs a priority. This was the beginning of the Cold War and a long arms race between the US and its allies (NATO) versus the Soviet Union and its allies (Warsaw Pact).
During the Cold War, the US and Soviet Union had built so many nuclear weapons that they could destroy the world multiple times over. They developed the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), which expressed the idea that neither side would attack the other directly because if either side launched their nukes, the other would, too, and both would be destroyed.
"Destroy", in the Cold War sense, meant to destroy a nation's capacity to function as an industrialized country, not to kill everyone in it. However, many people believed that because of the radioactive fallout or other related catastrophes, everyone or almost everyone on Earth would be killed.
See the 1980's movies "War Games" and "The Day After." These late Cold War movies show the expectations of ordinary people about what nuclear war would be like.
