Cold War

Soviet Union

Communist revolutions often caused conflict between the united states and the soviet union because in the cold war communism was the enemy of the united states because, at that time the us and USSR were the two leading world powers also the soviet union was communist and the us. was capitalist so the common enemies were suspicious that one would eliminate the other and they did not want more USSRs in the world.

November 8, 1965 was the date that 1st Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Sky Soldiers) engaged over 1200 Viet Cong on Hill 65, War Zone D. The Sky Soldiers lost 48 men killed in action but inflicted over 400 dead on the Viet Cong. For his actions during this engagement, Specialist 6 Lawrence Joel became the first black man since the Spanish American War to receive the Medal of Honor other than posthumously. For more information on SP6 Joel, see http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/l-joel.htm

If Korea had not been a peninsula, it could have ended like Vietnam did. Of course the lessons learned from Korea that later influenced Vietnam, would not have existed. Therefore, the mentality of those WW2 men that fought in Korea very well could have escalated the war to involve Joseph Stalin's men (Stalin also had a WW2 mentality) and the use of Atomic Weapons...World War 3.

South Vietnam. In the Vietnam war when south Vietnam lost the communism took over south Vietnam.Before that north Vietnam & south Vietnam were different colonies.

it was an enormous political loss for the United States during the war. Because the attack intensified the antiwar protest movement at home and discredited President Lyndon Johnson and U.S. military officials, the Tet Offensive represented a major turning point in the war against the United States.

No. The Marshall Plan was intended to promote economic recovery in Western European countries which had been ravaged by World War 2. Additionally, the Marshall Plan was begun in 1947, so it could not possibly have been the US answer to the Warsaw Pact which did not come into being until 1955. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance, and it was the Soviet answer to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) which was created in 1949.

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I believe World War 2.

Satellite - "Sputnik" was the first satellite launched on Oct 4, 1957.

It ensures (hopefully) that both nations are too frightened to launch their nuclear munitions.

The main cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the 1500-km range of the Soviets' only usable ballistic missile. The only way they could terrorize us with missiles was to station them in Cuba, where there were already Soviet troops.

We then utilized alien technology and nuked Hitler in his crib at the hollywood club while he was partying with as his friends called him, Proseph Stallin

U.S. military forces were prohibited from crossing the DMZ. As a result the NVA used this to their advantage. Crossing in numbers to attack U.S. and South Vietnamese forces and their bases, then when pursued, crossing back into North Vietnam, where they knew that they would not be pursued. As a result, the NVA could re-group and resupply in relative safety. They also used this fact in bombarding bases in South Vietnam with artillery and rockets from the safety of their homeland.

They provided funding for revolutions. USSR's goal was to turn more nations communism, and they tried to advantage of the 3rd world to do so.

pass the Truman Doctrine

The Yalu River. The river separates Red China from North Korea.

i think the land was divided up into individual countries, giving you countries like tajikistan kazakastan, uzbekistan, etc. again i think Stan means country but im not sure

The thaw.

After World War II ended in Europe, Germany was divided into four sections between the following nations: USA, Great Britain, USSR, and France. The western sections were occupied by the Western Allies wheras the Eastern sections were occupied by the Soviets. When the Western Allies wanted to amalgamate their sectors together to form Western Germany, the Soviets refused. Berlin was in the same situation as Germany; it was too divided amongst four powers. In 1948, Stalin placed a blockade on Berlin, isolating it from the rest of the world. The Allies responded by sending planes to deliver necessary supplies and such to Berlin's citizens. War looked like it could be inevitable but fortunately it wasn't the case. Stalin soon backed down on the blockade and peace was temporarily restored. In Eastern Europe, Soviets were suppose to allow their occupied countries to host free elections, in accordance to the Yalta Conference, but this wasn't the case. The Soviet Union was truly the hegemonic power in Eastern Europe and it believed that because it was so it needed to share its government with other countries of the east by converting them into communist regimes. Soviet-backed coups in Poland, Czechslovakia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe turned countries communist based on Marxist-Leninism. In 1949, when Germany was officially split in two, the West became the Federal Republic of Germany wheras the East became a communist regime. Communism, or Marxist-Leninism, appealed to the Third World and nationalist movements as nationalism was usually merged with communism in order to win specific means. In Vietnam, the French-educated Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh formed a communist Vietnamese state in the North after World War II. In response, the French pretended to acknowledge it through the puppet emperor Bao Dai but soon the French came to despise it. Ho Chi Minh and his Vietminh guerillas managed to defeat the French surprisingly and force the world to call a conference. In Geneva, Switzerland, the Genevan Convention was called to in 1954 to grant Vietnam its independence. Vietnam was split into two regimes: the communist North and the monarchial South. Ho Chi Minh headed the North wheras Emperor Bao Dai headed the South. However, Bao Dai's prime minister, Ngo Dinh Diem, forced him to abdicate and so turned South Vietnam's government into that of a dictatorial one. The two Vietnamese nations began fighting in 1959 and would do so until a temporary cease-fire was called to in 1973. American involvement in Vietnam was exalted beginning in 1964 as a result of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution passed by Congress, which allowed President Lyndon B. Johnson to send as many American troops there as necessary. Soon, American citizens were getting drafted and sent to fight in a war that many have denounced as unnecessary and unimportant to American politics. In 1968, the American public nearly exploded into social and cultural revolution while in Vietnam the Tet Offensive was being literally won by the Americans. The surrounding nations of Laos and Cambodia, who were treated as independent nations having nothing to do with the communist North, were attacked as a result of President Richard M. Nixon's period of Vietnamization in the early 1970s. In 1973, the Paris Peace Accords were called to arose diplomacy between the United States, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam. The United States agreed to pull out the majority of its troops while it was still allowed to help South Vietnam. The two Vietnamese nations lived in a short-lived peace that was soon shattered by the invasion of the South from the North and the Fall of Saigon. The United States lost nearly 50,000 military personel in the war wheras the Vietnamese as a whole had lost 2 million people, double how many Vietnamese died during Vichy French and Japanese occupation during World War II.

In the late 1970s, Soviet Premier Breshnev decided to back the hated and despised communist regime in Afghanistan. So, Soviet soldiers literally invaded Afghanistan to subdue resistance there and to support the Marxist-Leninist government. However, many Afghans did not want a godless, communist government running their predominantly Muslim state. Afghans either longed for the rise of Islamic clergy to governmental positions, similar to the Islamic clergyman Ayatolla Khomeini in Iran, or the rise of a democratic republic that was set up earlier before the Soviet invasion. The Americans decided to back the Muhajdeed, or holy warriors, in Afghanistan so as to oppose Soviet influence there. The Muhajdeed employed many guerrilla tatics against the superior Soviet forces and managed to force them out of the country. This was perhaps the last major communist movement in the Middle East.

Stalin refused to take advice from others and ruled as a dictator, always believing his own way was best.

yes the tension escalate between the two superpower because each one of them were trying to be the unnogiate able power.

Which war?