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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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Which nations were divided into democratic and communist sections during the cold war?
Communist bloc consisted of Eastern European countries: Poland, Checkoslavakia, Hungary, Romania, East Germany, Yugoslavia and Albania.
Democratic Western European countries were: Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, West Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Greece, France, England, Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.
If im of soviet decent after the USSR are you Russian or Soviet?
If you were born in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic of the USSR, but now live in the Russian Federation, then you are a Russian, and former Soviet citizen, though you can still claim Soviet citizenship.
What was the U-2 during the Cuban missile crisis?
The U-2 is a single engine, very high altitude reconnaissance aircraft made of wafer thin aluminum and equipped with a hi tech camera.
Why did different republics form when the Soviet Union collapsed?
The 16 republics which made up the USSR had always considered themselves to be separate countries, even though they had been conquered long ago by various Russian czars prior to the rise of the USSR. They had their own languages, religion (mostly Islamic) and traditions. Once the idea of democracy was introduced, and people had the chance to vote on whether to remain part of the USSR or not, it turned out that nobody, not even Russia itself, wanted to remain part of the USSR. So each republic became an independent state.
You could be talking about Afghanistan, who was repelling the Soviets. However, they had not been conquered.
What were some of the problens of the Sobiet economy during the Cold War?
Compared to the US; a very low standard of living for Russian (Soviet) citizens, and bankruptcy for their government.
I seriously doubt it. To the best of my knowledge, the Warsaw Pact was simply a military alliance created to oppose the non-communist countries of Western Europe in the event of another war.
Why did the US and the Soviet Union each support different terrorist organizations?
Well, during the cold war, each superpower wanted its own interests advanced by any means necessary. The US wanted to spread democracy while the USSR wanted to spread communism. In many developing countr5ies, different far- left or far- right organizations were supporteed by one power to stave off the other.
What was George Kennan's 1946 policy toward the Soviet Union called?
The policy proposed to limit the expansion of Soviet influence was referred to as containment without confrontation. The US would support anti-Communist regimes while avoiding direct conflict with the Soviets.
This was not entirely successful, and the largest failure of the policy was the Korean War of 1950-1953.
What people WANT TO HEAR is the 1979-1989 Afghanistan war. But the truth is, the USSR was rotting (deteriorating) from within financially...they went (or were going) bankrupt.
And, communism or not, it can happen to anybody or any nation.
In the Korean war who fought on the side of the communists?
North Korea was communist. Red China entered the later in 1950, becoming an ally to North Korea.
Why was the Korean war called the Seesaw war?
Example: The Reds would own the hilltop, then the allies (UN) would capture it. Then the Reds would take it back; then the UN would re-capture it again.
Back and forth, like a seesaw.
Which countrys does the Berlin Wall go through?
Berlin wall separated east and western Germany. western Berlin belonging to Federal Republic of Germany. the wall was built 1961 and opened 1991. while its existence a socialist dictatorship prohibited the people of eastern Germany to pass the border.
How was JFK informed on the possibility of missiles in Cuba?
The United States routinely conducted U-2 reconnaissance overflights of Cuba after Castro took power, and one overflight took pictures that under detailed analysis were determined to be launchers and support equipment for nuclear missiles. The estimated flight time from Cuba to Washington was less than 30 minutes; the time to Florida would've been a lot less. Though the sites were considered to not yet be operational, it was felt that they were within days of being completed, and Kennedy was immediately informed of the threat. The presence of nuclear weapons in Cuba represented a fundamental shift in Soviet doctrine and a major threat to stability in the Western Hemisphere.
Not known at the time but disclosed later on after the fall of the Soviet Union was the fact that battlefield Tactical Nukes were also in Cuba at the time. Had Kennedy decided on an invasion, there is no question those would've been used, and I wouldn't be sitting here telling you how it turned out decades later.
Ultimately, at least for the main player; the USSR, communism was not successful. The Soviets collapsed in 1990; which is why there's no cold war today.
The Cold War was a political war between the United States and its allies (forming NATO) and the Soviet Union and its puppet states (forming the Warsaw Pact). It was the US and Soviet Union battling to be the world's only superpower.
Both countries felt that they were safe from attack if they were powerful enough to destroy the other.
In December 1999 Boris Yeltsin resigned as Russia's president because?
In December 1999 Boris Yeltsin resigned as Russia's president because of failing health.
Integrating West Germany and East Germany has been?
Integrating West Germany and East Germany has been extremely difficult.
In 1989 what were aging communist leaders of eastern European nations doing?
still rejecting calls for reform
