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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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Impact of the cold war on the aerospace industry?
Thanks to the cold war, the US landed a man on the moon in 1969! We had the "Right Stuff!"
Did Russia have plans to invade the US?
Yes, I dont know specifics but they were going to invade from cuba and land in Texas and Louisiana. A great point to invade, Texas being the most well armed state.
Who wrote about racial discrimination?
Many have written about racial discrimination in the United States since Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 and Frederick Douglas during the Civil War. The work of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois led to such 20th Century authors such as Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Langston Hughes, with Pulitzer Prize-winner Alice Walker and Toni Morrison the best known today.
Did Stalin have any good qualities?
Awesome moustache and keen fashion sense.
Besides the mustache, he also led a largely agrarian society through a massive-scale industrial revolution. Basically, with foresight and iron-fisted tactics, Stalin created a superpower out of a nation that had been seen as poor and weak for hundreds of years.
What were the strengths and weaknesses of Russian intelligence during the Cold War?
They were on par with the US. In some cases pretty good; they copied our Atomic Bomb and tested it in 1949, bringing the Soviets into the Atomic Age; they made an EXACT copy of our B-29 Superfortress Bomber after capturing two of them in Northern China/Siberia in WW2; they made copies of our Air to Air missiles and had them shot back at us, when those missiles were attached to the under bellies of the North Vietnamese Air Force MIG-21's during the Vietnam War. All the result of Soviet (Russian) military intell work.
What strategies has the US employed to ensure its security?
The US Air Force & US Navy are strategic forces; they can traverse the globe 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year...year after year. The US Army (The US Marine Corps are part of the US Navy) is a tactical force; it can ONLY fight when & where the Air Force or Navy puts them. During the cold war, US strategies involved the USAF/USN constantly patrolling the globe (earth); the USAF was armed with SAC (Strategic Air Command) B-52 Stratofortess bombers, each loaded with an Atomic Weapon, these bombers were airborne 24-7 on a rotation basis. In the continental US, buried deep beneath the earth were USAF ICBM's in missile silos (Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles). The USN patrolled the oceans with nuclear powered submarines: Boomers & Fast Attack. Boomers were armed with naval versions of ICBMs; Fast Attack subs were hunter killer subs, designed to kill Soviet submarines.
Only parts of communism have been defeated. Communist nations still exist today. Communism is simply socialism: Group rights verses individual rights. Group safety verses individual safety. Group property verses individual property. The government will take care of you verses taking care of yourself; The government knowing your business verses the government staying out of your business (Privacy Laws). The US was founded upon capitalism: Profits. Profits enabled individuals to reach for a goal. Commonly referred to as "the American Dream." Owning your own home for example, earning profits from it's sale. The Soviet Union collapsed after going bankrupt under the communist system of government.
Serbian dominated state established after world war 1?
uh first of all
no states in Europe or Serbia or Yugoslavia
Serbia was in Yugoslavia till they all split apart
How do you say'I am a KGB agent' in Russian?
You wouldn't. You'd call yourself an officer of whatever Chief Directorate of the KGB you worked for. How you'd translate that I have no idea--if you don't know Cyrillic you can't even use Babelfish, though it has an English-Russian translator--but that's the phrase you'd use.
Why did the cold war happen happen?
because the United states and the soviet union didnt trust each other. United stated believed in capitalism and he Soviet union believed in Communison
In Europe which countries were NOT communist in 1960's?
All countries in Europe expect USSR, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Albania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany were NOT communist.
What was the clothing like during the cold war?
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The 1960s didn't start out with colorful clothes. They were dully designed and looked better on older people. Then little shops called boutiques opened selling cheap and colorful clothing for younger people. During the decade, women started wearing mini skirts, leather boots and fake eyelashes. Men wore Paisley shirts, velvet trousers and high collared Regency jackets. Men also began to wear their hair long.
1960-1962 - At this time, there was a carry over from the 50's, including the "bouffant" look. A "bouffant" look is a dress where the top part is tight and the skirt of the dress puffs out. The popular hairstyle was a beehive, where they tease their hair and piled it high on their head. Another look during this time was the beatnik. The beat look included black berets, black slacks (tight for women) and dark glasses. Women wore float shoes while men wore sandals. Women wore dark eye makeup.
1963 - Cardin designed The Beatles suits which became popular for men. The suit had a single breasted collarless jacket and slim pants. Mary Quant started her own label, and is responsible for designing mini skirts, colored tights, and wet look vinyl fashions.
1964 - Space age clothing starts to become popular. Different materials were used such as discs of metal or plastic linked together with wire. Leather is also used. Metallic or neon colors were involved.
1965 - Mini skirts become much shorter. Op art becomes more popular. Optic trick using contrasting colors with black and white to make a sort of optical illusion.
1966 - Psychedelic clothing is now a hit. Colors (acid colors) are brighter and bolder. Men begin to dress "fancy".
1967 - Ethnic fashions begins to spread. The ethnic look is clothing picked up from other cultures. The Oriental look and the African/Middle Eastern looks were both port of the ethnic fashion.
1968-1969 - Skirts begin to lengthen out, along with hair. The "Hippie look" is now popular. The women wore long floor length dresses and skirts called maxies. Men continued to grow their hair longer. Hippies decorated everything, including painting their bodies.
Cool ClothesHot pants (extremely short shorts)
Mini skirts
No hats or gloves for day wear
Space age fashions in vinyl and other synthetics
Bold, solid color contrasts from the Op Art and Pop Art movements, commonly
called Mod fashions
Preppy fashions for upper class youth: Madras plaids, oversize hairy sweaters,
painstakingly matched accessories
Did the United States government expand after the cold war?
Other than the westward expansion during the frontier days of the 18th & 19th Centuries; the only time in US history that the US actually expanded was during the Spanish-American War of 1898. During that war the US obtained Guam, Philippines, and leasing rights in Cuba.
Is getting scared good for you?
Some doctors say that a light scare every now and then is good for the body physically. There are opinions for every thing these days.
Is balance of power and alliances relate to Great Depression during world war 2?
The great depression of the 1930's influenced the power and alliances of the nations involved in WW2.
Political theories of the cold war?
The theory of what system of government was best: Socialism (Communism) or Individualism (Freedom and Capitalism).
What was unusual about the electrocution of Ethel Rosenberg?
Eyewitness testimony (as given by a newsreel report featured in the 1982 documentary film The Atomic Cafe) describes the circumstances of the Rosenbergs' death, noting that while Julius Rosenberg died after the first electric shock, his wife did not. After the normal course of three electric shocks, attendants removed the strapping and other equipment only to have doctors determine that Mrs. Rosenberg had not yet died (her heart was still beating). Two more electric shocks were applied, and at conclusion eyewitnesses reported, Bob Considine among them, that smoke rose from her head in the chamber.
the arms race started because US wanted to get the most powerful bomb.
How did the cold war affect African nations?
The first generation of Cold War scholarship was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, concentrating on the Soviet-American confrontation in the heart of Europe while paying but cursory attention to non-Western areas. In recent years, that imbalance has been righted as most scholars now recognize that the Cold War was a truly global phenomenon in which the Third World served as a critical theater and in which non-Western actors played a large and substantive role.
The emergence of the Third World, together with the bloody, conflict-ridden process of decolonization that brought it forth, not only coincided temporally with the Cold War but was inextricably shaped by that same Cold War. Indeed, the very term Third World emerged directly out of the Cold War struggle between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
One of the central paradoxes of the Cold War is that it ushered in the longest sustained period of peace in modern European history at the very same time that Asia, Africa, and the Middle East were convulsed by unprecedented amounts of violence and conflict.If Europe’s Long Peace can be directly attributable to the structure of stability imposed by the East-West standoff then to what extent did the Cold War encourage, ignite, or exacerbate, whether indirectly or directly, the Third World Conflicts of the Cold War era?
This conference will address two distinct but closely interrelated sets of questions. First, how did the Third World affect the course of the Cold War and the behavior and priorities of the two superpowers? And second, what impact did the Cold War have on the developing states and societies of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America?
This conference will bring together leading younger and established scholars from the fields of international, diplomatic, and Third World history to produce an integrative, broadly focused approach to this large and complex subject. The conference will precede, and help shape a book project in which contributors will write an original interpretive essay on various aspects of the Cold War in the Third World in his or her own area of expertise.
Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
