Cold War

1. The federal government helped the veterans by giving the government-guaranteed housing loan for veterans under the G. I. Bill.

the solviets had violated the yalta agreement

The term "shooting war" is pretty descriptive. Soldiers from different nations are shooting at each other. In modern warfare, such wars would not be limited to rifles or machine guns, there would be artillery as well, and possibly many other types of weaponry. This is the final phase of a conflict, when diplomatic negotiations have failed, economic pressure has failed, and everything else has failed, and there is still an unresolved issue that people feel they cannot accept.

As Israel (Medinat Yisra'el) is the only Jewish state in the Middle East (or anywhere) it would have to be them.

That depends on how alert the USA is. She has had decades to plan her plans for an attack; and fortify against just about every conceivable scenario that Russia and China might engage against her including a combined Russian/Chinese frontal attack. Americas great weakness is that she is gullible and mostly asleep and open to surprise. Today, 2008, America is blinded by her great power and shiny military systems thinking that she is the best and that no one would ever attack her. The Chinese will know this and might perhaps seek to one day use it. America doesnt think like China does, so she is open to a sneak attack through complex deception scenarios. China might invade Taiwan, then America gets sucked into the war, then China decides to seek peace agreements and the USA agrees, then without warning China might do a sudden attack upon the USA. Bingo...its over very quickly if America is so deceived. A combined attack by Russia and China would be over fast and the USA mostly broken. We need to pray for the USA. Without her... the forces of darkness would swamp the rest of the world mostly so. Pray for America. She needs our prayers. She needs someone in power, e.g. the President would be a great start, to encourage Christian revival to get God back on her side. *you might note: regarding the Chinese. Whereas the Americans are generally open and honest and straight shooting mostly so...the Chinese are different. Deception with them is a mind game so often. It is known in Australian banking circles that Chinese will keep agreements with each other (they will honour agreements between themselves) yet they will default (wont payback money etc) on agreements with westerners as it suits them. In truth there are no binding agreements with the Chinese that westerners can trust them to keep. Gibo.

Kind of

Even though there were no shots fired during the Cold War, there was a atmosphere of competition that was deadly serious between the Soviet Union and the United States. This tension was reflected perfectly through the space race, as both countries fought to be first in each of the steps which culminated in 1969 when the US put the first man on the moon.

War is much different when you know where your enemy is, and wars against insurgencies (E.G. Viet Cong, and later the Iraqi and Afghan insurgents) are not for conventional armies and tactics, especially when there are hundreds upon hundreds of trees, any one of which someone could be hiding in. So, to sum it up, fighting insurgents sucks.

The Soviets collapsed.

well the USand the soviets setteled their differences really and agreedit was costing to much money. Also the soviets were going through a change in the goverment and its smaller countrys were becoming independent once again

East Germany was one of the most repressive regimes in the Soviet bloc. They went to great measures to prevent their people from leaving and going to Western countries, especially West Germany. In 1989, Hungary's government decided to stop blocking their border with Austria (which was neutral, but bordered West Germany). So East Germans would go to Hungary, and then they could just slip across the border into Austria and then West Germany.

The people were able to see how bad the East German government was compared to the West, and major protests erupted in East Germany. The government finally broke the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and allowed free transit to West Berlin and West Germany. Despite this, the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany ("Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands" in German, or SED for short) could not hang onto power, and virtually the entire government resigned overnight. The SED was no longer the sole, dominant party and a less authoritarian government was set up.

With the collapse, East and West almost immediately went into talks to formally reunify- these talks went surprisingly quick and smoothly. Less than a year after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany officially reunified on October 3, 1990, which is now a national holiday.

In a sense, Poland left the Eastern Bloc in 1980 after the Worker's Revolution. They still remained a communist state, but with some elements of democracy.

Communism started in 1917 with the Russian Revolution. When the Communists overthrew the the Tsar and the Romanov Family. The conditions that led to the Russian revolution and Communism were mass poverty, starvation and just horrific living conditions for most of the Russian people in 1917. What happened under communism for the next 80 years in Russia was awful. Millions died under Stalin because he created a man made famine to get rid of a certain ethnic group which resisted his authority. Also anyone suspected of being against the state were put in jail or excuted. This happened on and off for the next fifty years after Stalin died in the 1950's.

People were routinely carted off and never seen again. Many of them were killed by the state. Or just worked to death in labor camps. In some ways life did get better for some people. But alot of people were just getting by. Their were the elites who through corruption and intimidation lived the ultimate lives of luxury, while telling everyone else they had to make sacrifices for the country.

No body owned anything. If you had a car it belonged to the state. If you had a tv it belonged to the state. Basically you had no personal rights at all and no property rights. You could not own your own home, it too belonged to the state. Communism created and caused so much suffering for people in Russia and everywhere else it gained power. Communism as a form of government was a complete disaster. As an idealogy it sounds appealing but when brought into reality it becomes a nightmare. There is lots more but I will end it here. I think this gives you a little idea of Communism was like

Money and jobs (employment) were geared up to fight communism.

Yes Virginia, democracies do fight each other.

In 1982, Great Britain fought the Falkland War with Argentina, which has been a presidential representative democratic republic since 1816.

Tony Blair may want to argue the fact with you semantically, since there was no declaration of war, however, the hundreds of dead, thousands of wounded and tens of thousands of POW's provides evidence to the contrary.

-APMc

Sadly, although Argentina may have become a presidential representative democratic republic in 1816, at the time of the Falklands War it was nothing of the sort. The government of the time was a dictatorship, and had been since 1976 when a military coup had overthrown the government of Isabel Martinez de Peron. She had herself suceeded her husband, Juan Domingo Peron, as president on his death in 1974, due to her position as vice-president in his legally elected regime.

Whether you think the Falklands War was right or wrong, it certainly was not a war between two legally elected democracies.

Yalson

The United Kingdom declared war on Finland on December 6, 1941. Finland was loosely allied with Germany in its war effort against the Soviet Union, but never was anything but a true Democracy with freely elected Parliament and other democratic institutions from its independence in 1917, through the years of World War II, and since.

Alfsand

You could also include in these answers the war between Pakistan and India in the early 1970s, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Soccer war between El Salvador and Nicaragua, the war between Ecuador and Peru in the early 80s. Even go as far as to include the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the war between Poland and Lithuania after WW1.

Where democratic war theory does hold some water is in its proposal of wars between democratic nations ending far quicker and more resolutely but as for them not occurring is a fallacy, probably cooked up in Tony Blair's mind to justify the invasion of Iraq and force the country into a western form of democracy that would seem acceptable to the U.S and U.K.

Charlie

this question does not make sense. Bonn was the capital of West Germany.

The iron curtain.

Nikolai Roerich

people died

The East German government with the support of the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall to stop East German from defecting to the West.

May Day in the former Soviet Union was "International Workers' Day." Parades on this date were to show the people that communism was making them strong by displaying their military hardware and manpower.

May Day or "International Workers' Day" (also known as "May Day") is a celebration of the international labour movement. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries and celebrated unofficially in many other countries. May Day was celebrated illegally in Russia until the February Revolution enabled the first legal celebration in 1917. The following year, after the Bolshevik seizure of power, the May Day celebrations were boycotted by Mensheviks, Left Socialist Revolutionaries and anarchists. It became an important official holiday of the Soviet Union, celebrated with elaborate popular parade in the centre of the major cities. The biggest celebration was traditionally organized on the Red Square, where the General Secretary of the CPSU and other party and government leaders stood atop Lenin's Mausoleum and waved to the crowds. It was celebration to show the people how strong the communism was by displaying their military, air force and navy hardware and manpower. Since 1992, May Day is officially called "The Day of Spring and Labour", and remains a major holiday in present-day Russia.

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