Cold War

Snow was the major factor in this war. The horses of the German military froze to death. The tanks and jeeps were so cold that they could not start. Their guns even froze. It was so cold that the bullets did not go fast enough. The German generals froze to the seats of their vehicles, thus they died right there! Captain Kirby, A.K.A. Nicolai Carpathia, led one major offensive against Russia. While driving through 25 km. high snow drifts, his car got stuck. He commanded his officers to dig him out. They dug for two weeks, but due to the blizzard-like condtions, they froze to death. He sat in his car for three months before someone rescued him.

Normal good physical shape; but with the added feature of having all of your front teeth. Men's teeth were required to tear the paper tips from each paper cartridge prior to loading a muzzle loading rifle. Although 1865 is the transitioning year from muzzle loader to metalic cartridge military rifles. Army regulations die slow!

The Soviet Union and the United States represented two very conflicting ideologies.

1. Geography - The Soviet Union and the United States actually shared many geographical similarities.

A key difference would be size. And the Soviet Union possessed a great deal of tundra in the far north and east.

The Soviet Union had regions that would be comparable to any region in the U.S., Russia is most known for its flat wide open steppe however, and its continental climate which mean hot summers and cold winters. However the Ural Mountains and Caucasus mountains are similar the Appalachian and Rockies in some ways. Mt. Olympia is much like Mt. Elbrus, both are two of the tallest points in the world and feature year round skiing. In the South Russia and other Soviet states have beautiful beach resort areas in sub-tropical areas, similar to Florida. Regions in Kazakhstan are completely similar to places in the U.S. central North West. The Steppe is similar to the U.S. great Plains. The great Russian Forrests are much like the great Pine forests of the North West. Alaska is much like the other side of the Bering Sea.

2. Economy

The Soviet Economy was a Marxist-Leninist Social economy. The economy focused primarily on heavy industry to support its military industrial complex. Light industry, like consumer goods were not an area of major concern. This is why Soviet citizens tended to save their money in savings accounts rather than spend it because there was nothing to really spend their money on! The Soviet Union was a welfare state in that it employed large numbers of people to do jobs that required far less, but this was part of the Marxist-Leninist idea to achieve true full employment. Their economy was also planned, each organization was to fulfill a quota which was negotiated upon by the factory director. An entire lesson in Soviet economy is impossible here.

The U.S. economy is primarily capitalist. At this time the U.S. was moving out of production of goods and focusing more on services. The capitalist system is not based on the welfare state and therefor allowed greater efficiency. The U.S. economy had a healthy balance of consumer goods/light industry and heavy industry.

3. Governments

The Soviet government was one of repression, it was Communist system. This repressive tendency is partially to do with prevailing political cultures in the region left over from tsarist times. The socialist system is one that is not entirely popular, which is why it required a great deal of emphasis on patriotism, military accomplishment, and repression to maintain power.

The U.S. government is a democracy, and as such the citizens have a greater deal of freedom of expression, which leads to greater happiness and at least manageable discontent. That is not to say that repression did not exist like say with the Civil Rights movement, etc, but it was much less frequent.

By Soviet Union, I take it you mean 'Russia' - Economically the countries are very different. Russia is blessed with size and resources, but isn't blessed with fair weather; unfortunately a good portion of the country is tundra. The government of Russia and the United States are both currently democracies, but Russia's government is currently of the 'fledgling' varietiey, it is not a 'mature' democracy and to a certain extent this creates some political instability; coupled with an active resistance against Russian rule in Checnya, it is easy to see how the United States is inherently more stable.

The US countered Soviet threats to free nations by establishing the Marshall Plan and running the Berlin airlift. The US also established NATO, opposed the Korean War, and established the Truman Doctrine.

In Europe in World War 1. Scouts (with the observer throwing the bombs by hand) and zeppelins were used as bombers, but before the end of the war the bomber had evolved into a task-oriented war machine.

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During the Cuban missile crisis, 35th U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy [May 29, 1917-November 22, 1963] never shut down communications with Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev [April 17, 1894-September 11, 1971]. Some of the Soviet leader's statements were conciliatory, others escalatory. Despite the advice of the military and the commentary of those associated with the previous Eisenhower administration, the President always maintained a tone that was consistent with the more conciliatory of the Russian statements. And so the Kennedy line always rang respectfully clear, but strong, to the Soviet Union: we are all mortal, we all worry about those we love and about succeeding generations, and so we must not let this lead to nuclear war. How was nuclear war to be avoided? The President recognized that just as the United States didn't like Soviet missiles in nearby Cuba, the Soviet Union didn't like U.S. missiles in nearby Turkey. He asked that the Soviets remove their defenses in Cuba - or face U.S. quarantine of Cuba, to the great suffering of the Cuban people - in exchange for a removal of U.S. defenses in Turkey. It was a win-win situation.

They produce corn and rice and since they are a communist country the have a more poor economy than South Korea.

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The Korean War was unquestionably began when the Communist-Inspired North invaded the South. Soviet Russia and the United States were responsible for elevating the status of the conflict into a multi-national war.

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There are two different ways to view the Cold War. One is that the Cold War is nothing unique-two very powerful nations were playing the Great Game in search of global domination. Certainly the foreign policy objectives of the USSR were similar to the Russian monarchy-such as an Eastern European buffer zone and a warm-water port not located on the Pacific Rim.

The second way to view the Cold War is as an ideological struggle between two competing world views-capitalist democracy vs. socialist totalitarianism. The Soviets were terrified the West sought to overthrow Communism, and the US and her allies were convinced that the Soviets would spread Communism around the world by whatever means necessary. Both sides were armed with enough nuclear warheads to destroy most of humanity-raising the stakes to an apocalyptic level.

Both sides had the seeds of conflict inherent within their own political systems. In the United States, the fear of the Soviet threat was played up for electoral advantage. John Kennedy won election over Nixon in part by playing up fear of a non-existent "Bomber Gap" and "Missile Gap". Presidents often used fear of Communism to force an agenda through a stalemated Congress. It was easier to focus on the foreign threat rather than deal with many domestic problems.

The Containment Policy of the Truman administration was basically an offensive threat to the expansion of the Soviet Union. It threatened to use force should the Soviets attempt to expand in areas that were not under Soviet control. Yet, it could also be considered defensive, because it let the Soviets know that we would protect our interests in Europe and Asia, but not make the first military move. Containment would be a reply to any aggressive action by the Soviets. The policy was not only military, but also an economic and diplomatic policy. The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine are examples of diplomatic and economic attempts of the Containment Policy in action. Korea and Vietnam are also military examples.

There were four Soviet Premiers while Ronald Reagan was US President.

President Nixon's stance toward the Soviet Union in 1969 was one of diplomacy. He negotiated a missile treaty with them and to negotiate nuclear peace. He sought to end the Cold War.

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In terms of violence and scale yes. In terms of area and time no.

Korea commenced immediately as a conventional war; with tanks and aircraft, ships and men. But it was confined to the Korean peninsula, and lasted only 3 years.

Vietnam began like a cancer and escalated from a guerrilla war into a conventional war after 1964 (due to the Tonkin Gulf Incident). In Vietnam, which was not a peninsula, bombing and infiltration affected the bordering nations of Cambodia and Laos, and had the potential to spread to further neighboring countries had the US pursued the war with even more determination than it actually did. However, the US desparately tried to confine the war to only South Vietnam, with an aerial war over North Vietnam, and "secret" bombings of Laos and Cambodia.

Definitely not.

The gap was entirely perceived. CIA figures reported a clear US advantage in the number of missiles; padded figures were presented to the public during the Cold War so that further development and expenditure would be allowed.

One European and two Asian nations were divided: East & West Germany; North & South Vietnam; North & South Korea.

A strategic defense initiative to build a satellite

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The Berlin Wall was built in Germany in August of 1961. The Berlin Wall was built to separate East Germany and East Berlin from West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was destroyed in 1990 which allowed for unification of West and East Berlin.

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