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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 events started and ended the Cold War?
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Stalin started the Cold War by invading Poland and reneging on his promise to allow free elections there. This was followed by Soviet occupation of much of the rest of Eastern Europe, as well as aiding communist expansion in Asia.
RESPONSE 2
Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by following through on his promise to stand up to and to outspend the Soviets in the Arms Race. The Soviets realized Reagan said what he meant and meant what he said. When he proposed to build SDI or Missile Defense, some of the press laughed, but the Soviets saw in Reagan a track-record of following through on his commitments, so they raised the white flag.
The Cold War began in a series of events from the conferences of the Big Three in 1943-45 to the complex events of the post-war era, in which both sides contributed. In any case, the Cold War began because the U.S. would not allow the Soviets a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, and because the Soviets took a series of aggressive actions to expand their areas of control and influence all over the World.
The Cold War ended not because of Reagan's actions: his increased armament only antagonized the USSR and intensified the Cold War. The Cold War ended because a reformist faction of the Communist Party came to power in the USSR, with Andropov, and then again with Gorbachev, because the old-guard, and just plain old, Soviet leaders kept dying. Gorbachev, from a younger generation, had a much more critical attitude toward the USSR and was much more open-minded, educated, intelligent, and worldly than any other previous leader - even more than Reagan, too.
There was, however, one other group responsible for the end of the Cold War: the peoples of Eastern Europe and the USSR, who organized and protested at great personal risks. Their protests, and Gorbachev's acceptance of their roles, brought about the end of the Cold War, not U.S. arms deployments, which may have delayed the whole process.
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The origins of the Cold War came from a lot of things. One of these, for example, was when Lenin took Russia out of World War I in 1919. This left the West with a lot more to do. Also, just the ideologies on their own led to a very strong rivalry among the superpowers. According to communism, there is an ongoing inevitable worldwide revolution that will occur. This means that the world will turn communist. This is what the USSR and the US believed, which is why the latter was afraid of the Soviets and put a lot of work into breaking it down. The reason as to why the US was involved with the Marshall Plan, Korean War, Vietnam War, etc. was to hold communism back.
When Reagan upped the defense spending, the Soviets tried to keep up. When forced to choose between guns and food, the Soviets ALWAYS chose guns. However, this was an arms race that their economy just could not support without their people suffering extreme hardships. Their economy simply wasn't strong enough to maintain the grip on their satellites. They really had no choice but to let their satellites go. On the other hand, if the U.S. hadn't forced the USSR into upping the ante on defense spending, perhaps they would have had the resources to maintain their control over their satellites for a few more years.
President Nixon wrote a book THE REAL WAR. It was published in 1980. It recommended that the U.S. increase defence spending massivly and that if we did there was no way the Soviets could keep up and would in fact collapse.
It is amazing to me that a published volume gets no credit.
Nixon also recommended the U.S. stay out of the Middle East. At the time the book was written 15 of the 23 Muslim nations had been overthrown in the prior 10 years or so.
Nixon was probably aware of the siege of Vienna in 1683 when the invading army of the Ottoman empire asked for the keys to that city, citing their treatment of a city who had recently surrendered to their army and had in fact been massacred.
What caused World War 1 to start June 28 1914?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 28, 1914. He was heir to the throne but was shot to death.
What does the word assured mean?
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What caused the arms race after World War 2?
Project 'Manhattan' or to simply say, Nuclear Bombs and the US "Red Scare" in the early 1950s. from then on every country wanted nuclear weapons, And the First to acquire was the US, then Russia, then the United Kingdom, then France, then China, then India, then Pakistan, then North Korea. It is believed that Israel also has them, but they refuse to either confirm or deny.
At the peak of the cold war arms race both the US and Russia had more than 10,000 strategic nuclear weapons and roughly 50,000 tactical nuclear weapons each, no other country in the world has ever had more than a few hundred total strategic and tactical nuclear weapons. As of 2014 both the US and Russia have reduced their stockpiles to about 3000 strategic nuclear weapons and zero tactical nuclear weapons (however the US maintains the parts from the dismantled 7000 strategic nuclear weapons and in an emergency could still reassemble them in a few months time into usable weapons, Russia likely has similar ability).
Americans viewed English policies after 1763 as a systematic attack on their?
Americans viewed English policies after 1763 as a systematic attack on their constitutional liberties.
Location of allied airlift in Germany?
The Berlin Airlift came as a massive relief operation to sustain the Allied Sectors occupied Berlin against Soviet aggression and blockade. The two major airfields of the Berlin Airlift were Tegel and Templehof.
What happened when more and more people came to work in the factories?
When more and more people came to work in the factories there was a need for the cities to expand. This expansion caused the need for more roads and more living areas in the form of suburbs.
Which events in America occurred during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe?
During the Napoleonic Wars ongoing in Europe from the 1790s into 1815, a variety of important events were taking place in America. The famous explorations of Lewis and Clark in pursuit of the Northwest Passage occurred soon after the also-famous purchase of Louisiana Territory in 1803. Yet another event of significance was the War of 1812 -- a war with Great Britain that in fact lasted into the early months of 1815.
Was there ever an atomic bomb dropped during the cold war?
Yes, many. But not in an attack on anyplace; just for test, troop training, and propaganda purposes. These real live bombs were dropped from airplanes from 1946 through 1962 by various nations deliberately. In some training exercises the troops were required to march over Ground Zero within hours of the shot.
There were also several launched on missiles to explode in space (but these technically did not drop). One of these space nuclear test shots actually caused a manned Gemini space mission to be postponed several days out of fear of exposure to radiation from that bomb captured by the earth's magnetic field.
And this does not count all the tower, balloon, underwater, underground, surface, cratering, etc. test shots done from 1945 to the present.
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As far as dropping real live nuclear weapons there were 32 incidents (in Military speak "Broken Arrows") where nuclear weapons were dropped or lost by accident. Six have never been recovered. These include:
- Date: July 27, 1956 Location: Suffolk, England
- Date: February 5, 1958 Location: Off Georgia, United States
- Date: February 28, 1958 Location: Greenham Common, England,
- Date: January 24, 1961 Location: Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States
- Date: July 4, 1961 Location: North Sea (Russian submarine)
- Date: December 5, 1965 Location: Pacific Ocean off the deck of the USS Ticonderoga.
- Date: Mid-1960s (Date undetermined) Location: Kara Sea Russian source
- Date: January 17, 1966 Location: Palomares, Spain
- Date: April 11, 1968 Location: Pacific Ocean (Near Oahu) Russian source
- Date: November 1969 Location: White Sea
- Date: April 12, 1970 Location: Atlantic Ocean Russian Source
- Date: November 22, 1975 Location: Off Sicily, Italy
- Date: October 3, 1986 Location: Atlantic Ocean 480 miles east of Bermuda. Russian Source
- Date: April 7, 1989 Location: Atlantic Ocean 300 miles north of the Norwegian coast, Russian source .
- Date: August 10, 1985 Location: Near Vladivostok, Russia
- Date: September 27, 1991 Location: White Sea Russian source
- Date: March 20, 1993 Location: Barents Sea
- Date: February 11, 1992 Location: Barents Sea
Are developed nations exempt from environmental impact?
are develpoed nations exempt from enviromental expact
The initial response of the US to the outbreak of war in Korea was to?
They wanted to meet the threat of communist agression. America is against the spread of communism and they wanted to help Korea stop the spread of communism.
Which of the two superpowers do you think contributed more to cold war tensions during the 1950s?
The Soviet Union who contributed the most to the tensions between the two super powers, but for a completely different reason. My reasoning is simple: they threw up the "
Iron Curtain
" and allowed no one to view what was going on behind that curtain. People become very suspicious and scared of just about everything and everyone when they can't see. Cover your face with a black vale and see the reactions you get. The USSR then, set themselves up to become the boogieman of the world.
What countries were located in the eastern bloc?
East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania.
Three of these countries (East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia) no longer exist.
On what predominantly German- American town in Minnesota did the Sioux uprising of 1862 happen on?
It began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota. It ended with a mass execution of 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota.
American-sponsored effort to provide funds for the economic relief and recovery in Europe?
The Marshall Plan ^__^
Did the cold war start in 1946?
The exact date of the start is debated upon. However, the common agreement is that i started at the Yalta Conference between US, USSR and the UK. The Yalta conference was in August 1945.
The infamous English author Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 -- 21 January 1950) better known as George Orwell (book "1984") coined the term "Cold War." He was referring to the situation after World War II in stating that a "peace is no peace" when there is a threat of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has been living under a communist regime with Joseph Stalin as the dictator since the death of Lenin. Stalin deeply felt that the era of Capitalism is over and all countries would move towards socialism. By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union would not relinquished the eastern European nations after driving the Nazi's out. They instead incorporated them into the Soviet Socialist Republics. Countries included East Germany, Poland, Belarus, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania formed the "Eastern Bloc." Yugoslavia would leave this alliance though it kept it's form of communism in place. Prime Minister of Britain, Winston Churchill, would term the phrase the "Iron Curtain" as a place where no one can come in or come out from, nor would information get out. Stalin was instilling his brand of economics to Latin American and South East Asia. Nuclear missiles were pointed at the USSR by the United States and the USSR pointed theirs at us.
Some major events during the cold war was the blockade of West Berlin. Berlin is officially in East Germany but by the Potsdam Treaty signed by The US, USSR, Britain, and France. Berlin were to be in the hands of the aforementioned countries. In 1948, Stalin decided to block railway access to West Berlin since he felt the Soviets could handle the chore of feeding the West Berliners. In fear of Soviet occupation of West Berlin, airlifts of food by The Air forces of Britian, US, Canada, and Australia carried in the food. By 1949, the blockade ended but East Germany became permanently split from West Germany. President Harry Truman in 1947, signed the National Security Act in 1947 which formed the CIA, the National Security Council, and the Defense Department. Spies from the Soviet Union (KGB) and the CIA were at war with each other. In 1948, the only country allowed to have a democracy in the eastern bloc, Czechoslovakia, was overthrown by Soviet forces. From 1947-1953, the Soviet influence in Korea led to a civil war, in which the United States participated in, that produced an armistice as the country was divided into North and the South. Another and more famous war, the Vietnam war, was waged in the middle 1960's to 1975 where North Vietnam, backed by the Soviet Union, defeated South Vietnam. Whether Americans veterans from the war came back in "honor" as quoted by President Richard Nixon or not is still under debate. There were also Soviet influences in the Southeastern countries of Laos and Cambodia. In 1961, East Berlin demanded the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops from West Berlin which led to East Berlin to build the "Berlin Wall." This prevented citizens from West Germany to enter East Berlin and the citizens of East Berlin were disallowed to enter West Berlin. As a result, families were on both ends of Germany and could not see each other. In September 1962, the US attempted to overthrow the Cuban government headed by Fidel Castro, that ended in a disasterous "Bay of Pigs." The following month, a US spy plane U-2 secretly documented Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba. The US responded by barricading Cuba from receiving any kind of shipments. The Soviet Union leader, Nikita Khrushchev responded to the US President John Kennedy, that quarantine of international waters was an act of war. From personal experiences, the schools in the United States often had "Shelter Drills" where students were to hide under their desks or march to the basement of the school, in case of a nuclear attack. After some tense days, Khrushchev relented with the promise the US will never again invade Cuba. There were also revolts behind the Iron Curtain as in 1956, Hungarians took to the streets in wanting the overthrow of the communist regime. It didn't last as secret police shot demonstrators. In 1968, the Slovaks of Czechoslovakia also revolted not only for democracy but also for food for there was a food shortage there. The demonstrators were beaten back by the invasion of Soviet forces sent in by Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the leader of the Soviet Union at the time. Another element of the Cold War was actually a positive in the long run. The Space race began in 1957 with the Soviets sending Sputnik I into space. Later, they also sent the first man into space. Although the US came into the game a little late, we were the first ones on the Moon as symbalized by the American flags that were planted there. The planted flags was a reflection of superiority. However, during the space race, there was a unity and cooperation among scientists of both countries that led to missions of docking one US spaceships to a USSR spaceships in the mid 1960's. In 1985, a new Prime Minister of the Soviet Union would be appointed by the name of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who is the first leader not born during the Russian Revolution, would eventually end the cold war officially in 1991.
The A4 is equipped with a tri-burst mechanism- it can fire 3 shots per trigger pull.
