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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.
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What was the purpose of loyalty review boards and HUAC?
the purpose of the loyalty review Bords and HUAC was to catch communists within the America government because of the measuring conformists fears Truman established these policies
The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie was the prototype version of the proposed B-70 nuclear-armed deep penetration bomber for the United States Air Force's Strategic Air Command. Designed in the late 1950s, the Valkyrie was a large six-engined aircraft able to fly Mach 3+ at an altitude of 70,000 ft (21,000 m), which would have allowed it to avoid interceptors, the only effective anti-bomber weapon at the time.
Source: Wikipedia
Additional answer: Note: The current photo above is not the B-70. The photo is of the B-58 Hustler, which was the earlier low-level high-speed penetration strategic bomber used by the US Air Force Strategic Air Command until the mid-1960's. The B-70 was of a similar design & flight profile to the commercial Concorde supersonic airliner. The B-70 never made it into production or service because the Soviets were successful in developing high altitude high-speed missile defenses. The Soviets also developed the MiG-25 Foxbat Mach 2.5 interceptor to counter the B-70.
During the Cold War Eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary were called?
(Soviet satellites)
During the Cold War, Eastern European countries like Poland and Hungary were called Soviet satellites. A satellite is a person, country, or object (such as a moon) whose actions and movement is controlled by a larger, more powerful person, country, or object. During the Cold War, Eastern European countries were called Soviet satellites because they were controlled by the Soviet Union. If these countries tried to act in an independent way, the Soviet Union would send in its army and force them back into line.
The United States opposed the Soviet Union's communist system.
What US forced were stationed in Japan during the Cold War?
US Air Force and US Naval Bases were stationed in Japan.
How did cold war policies impact American foreign policy especially during Vietnam and Korea?
Containment. VN & Korea were containment.
What country was the lone exception to Soviet control in eastern Europe?
This was Yugoslavia under the leadership of their own communist leader, Tito. Yugoslavia was evicted from the list of the USSR's satellite states due to accepting American 'Marshall Aid' and for being too friendly with the West.
What does NORAD do for people?
The North American Air Defense Command keeps its eye on the sky around the world to guarantee the safety of the world from rocket launches and major air attack.
The major focus of the 1975 Helsinki Accords was?
Cooperation in Europe with a special reference to human rights
arms race
What are the causes of external debt crisis?
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Why didn't Stalin want people to leave Russia causing him to put up the Iron Curtain?
The Iron Curtain was a rhetorical device in a Churchill speech. He said, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." By this he meant that no one could leave the countries that were to the east of that line.
There wasn't actually a huge metal curtain between the West and East.
Stalin didn't want anyone to leave the Soviet Union because he knew everyone would leave. He knew communism is not a popular system of government.
What were the positive results of the end of the Cold War?
For those people that had knowledge of Atomic Bombs, it meant that we didn't have to wake up one morning and look out the window and see some large "mushroom cloud" appearing over some city. We all, for the most part, expected it, but didn't let it ruin or run our lives. We lived our daily lives routinely...if it happened...it happened...there was nothing we could do about it. With the end of the cold war...we don't even think about it anymore...it's over.
How did the Allies solve the Berlin blockade?
The US Air Force led a coalition of western countries in airlifting supplies to Berlin. The Berlin Airlift lasted about a year. Never before had a major city been supplied with all the essentials for survival by an extended airlift. This was a major step in the cold war, showing that the Soviets were willing to provoke war by violating treaties and agreements, and showing that America, Britain, and France would not stand idly by and let them get away with it. The Berlin Airlift cost nearly 100 American lives. Most were accidents caused by poor weather conditions and heavily laden planes, but some were in collisions with Soviet planes that harrassed the airlift effort.
The command systems of the Soviet Union and eastern Europe failed in part because?
Economic profit and losses
Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia what was the result of the conflict?
the conflict from the Warsaw PAct inavison of Czechoslovakia was .....
What are five ways the Soviets beat us in space?
Here are some taken from wikipedia
- 1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile, the R-7 Semyorka
- 1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1
- 1957: First animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2
- 1959: First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity, Luna 1
- 1959: First data communications, or telemetry, to and from outer space, Luna 1.
- 1959: First man-made object to pass near the Moon, first man-made object in Heliocentric orbit, Luna 1
- 1959: First probe to impact the Moon, Luna 2
- 1959: First images of the moon's far side, Luna 3
- 1960: First animals to safely return from Earth orbit, the dogs Belka and Strelka on Sputnik 5.
- 1961: First probe launched to Venus, Venera 1
- 1961: First person in space (International definition) and in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Vostok programme
- 1961: First person to spend over 24 hours in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (also first person to sleep in space).
- 1962: First dual manned spaceflight, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4
- 1962: First probe launched to Mars, Mars 1
- 1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6
- 1964: First multi-person crew (3), Voskhod 1
- 1965: First extra-vehicular activity (EVA), by Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2
- 1965: First probe to hit another planet of the Solar system (Venus), Venera 3
- 1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9
- 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10
- 1967: First unmanned rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188. (Until 2006, this had remained the only major space achievement that the US had not duplicated.)
- 1969: First docking between two manned craft in Earth orbit and exchange of crews, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5
- 1970: First soil samples automatically extracted and returned to Earth from another celestial body, Luna 16
- 1970: First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1 on the Moon.
- 1970: First data received from the surface of another planet of the Solar system (Venus), Venera 7
- 1971: First space station, Salyut 1
- 1971: First probe to reach surface and make soft landing on Mars, Mars 2
Is the world a safer place after cold war ended?
Yes-Most peoples don't have to worry (or stress out) about "mush-room clouds" (atomic bombs going off) suddenly appearing out of no-where anymore. No-Terrorists have taken their place. At least during the cold war, global security was so concerned about "the cold war", terrorists were unable to communicate with each other...if they did communicate with each other; THEY would have been taken as part of the cold war (they would have been caught up in it).
Was the U.S. fighting or containing the Soviet Union in the cold war?
The term "cold war" means NO FIGHTING. A "hot war" would be actual fighting; such as World War 2, or the Korean War, or Vietnam War. During the "cold war", the United States was containing communism, which was what the Soviet Union/Red China were trying to expand (spread) through the use of surrogates: those surrogates were the North Koreans during the Korean War (1950-1953) & North Vietnam during the Vietnam War (1961-1975). The Communists were STOPPED in Korea (an Armistice ended the fighting at the 38th Parallel in 1953). The Communists WON in South Vietnam, when the North ran their tanks into the South Vietnamese Capital, capturing the city, and ending the war on 30 April 1975.
If you are referring to the Cold War, there was no direct conflict between the two nations. There was quite a bit of indirect conflict however. This conflict can be described as idealogical. The Marxist philosophy ( followed by the Soviet Union ) dictates that the world must be taken over and converted to Communism. This is in direct conflict with the ideas of Democracy; the ideology of the United States.
The Cold War was one of influencing other nations to "convert" them to one ideology or the other. Means included financing revolutions and governments and supplying them with weapons, spying and rhetorical attacks. The Cold War also consisted of building nuclear arsenals to keep the other super power at bay.
Romania.
Absolutely the first real clue was when President Harry Truman told then Soviet Premier Josef Stalin that we had successfully tested a nuclear device, and Stalin's reaction was that of not being surprised - he already knew from Soviet spy Klaus Fuch, who was attached to the Manhattan Project and was feeding information to them.
The Soviets had also captured German scientists working on missile technology at Penemunde and the Nazi Heavy Water experiments. The information stolen from the Manhattan Project helped the Soviets accelerate their program and detonate their first weapon in 1949, just 4 years after the Trinity test at Alamogordo.
What were the nuclear weapons the countries used in the Cold War?
No nuclear weapons were used in the Cold War. The reason it is called that is that the United States and the Soviet union never came into direct military conflict. The only time that atomic weapons have been used was during the Second World War. The USA has only used nuclear weapons in combat twice. A Nuclear weapon has not been used in action since 1945. Many countries tested nuclear weapons during the cold war such as USA, Russia, France and the United Kingdom. While none were used in combat a wide variety were tested and you could argue that these were effectively used in the Cold War due to the fact their testing was a deterrent. Examples of nuclear weapons designed for use in the cold war include the USA's Castle Bravo, Russia's Tsar Bomb, the M-388 Davy Crockett and a variety of ICBM's.
