Cold War

It is difficult for people who are not old enough to have lived through the early years of it to truly understand the Cold War. By the early 1970's, the Cold War had become a very tiresome chess match that had ended long ago in a "stalemate", but neither player was willing to call it. But for those of us who's memory goes back to the early fifties, the Cold War was a brand-new game full of thrills, chills and spills called "Brinksmanship", largely invented by John Foster Dulles. The game was simple: The United States and Russia both put on their most threatening faces, stood nose-to-nose and stared. If either blinked, the whole world exploded. The ultimate peak of the game was probably the Cuban Missile Crisis. After that, (Russia blinked) the yawning stalemate developed rapidly. Many are fond of saying that "Ronnie Reagan brought about the end of the Cold War!". No, he didn't. Ronald Reagan did indeed preside over the funeral of the Cold War, yes - but it was already dead before he put his hand on the Bible and said "So help me God". It's just that no one had called the coroner yet. Mikael Gorbachov finally called the coroner.

During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in the latter part of the Cold War, bin Laden was (amazingly enough) an ally of the US, and received US military aid to help him oppose the Soviet invasion.

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The proclamation of the Truman Doctrine was followed in JUne 1947 by the European Recovery Program, better known as the Marshall Plan, which provided $13 Billion for the economic recovery of war-torn Europe.

Following WW II, the USSR took control of the nations of eastern Europe which became satellite states, and kept out normal commerce and travel to western Europe. Therefore, as Winston Churchill observed, it was as if an iron curtain had fallen across Europe, sealing off the eastern part from the west.

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Because Russia had taken over East Berlin, the supplies coming from West Berlin to East Berlin had been cut off, leaving the people in East Berlin with virtually no supplies. The Berlin Airlift was then enacted as a sort of brinkmanship as well as to give East Berliners their items.

United States and the Soviet Union

• from 1945 until the 1980s, the US.
• since the 1980s, the USSR and now Russia.

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East was ruled by communist russia while west was ruled by the allies (america, france and Britain), Berlin was in the eastern side but it was also split up like the whole of Germany was, into four sectors, each one ruled by the corresponding ally.

Western Europe had a much stronger economy. Eastern Europe fell into poverty and more Eastern European countries became police states.

There have been several. Joseph Stalin till he died in 1953. Followed by Nikita Krushchev till he was replaced by Leonid Brezhnev in 1964. He was the premier for the longest period of time till he died in 1979. There followed in quick succession Andropov and Cherikov-both were old men and died within 2 years of taking over the country. After that in 1985, the Politburo decided to elect someone that was young and that would stabilize the political situation. They chose Gorbachov and he served till there was a coup in 1991 and he was replaced by Boris Yeltsin. He was the last leader of the former Soviet Union.

The Cold War was the result of market forces.

These market forces include abstract concepts such as fear, and tangible concepts such as level of industry, comparative advantage, and technological capabilities.

If a government decides it wants to allocate more taxes than are necessary to defense spending, its morality and ethics may be called into question, but it is the responsibility of it's citizens to decide what tax revenue is used for what.

The citizenry is responsible for government actions, no matter what model of society they exist under.

the Soviet Union was Comunist and America wasn't

Communism as practiced in the USSR and Eastern Bloc was a highly dictatorial system in which people had no say in the decisions of their own governments, which many people found offensive. In addition, the communist economic system, in which the government owned everything and employed everybody, worked rather badly. It was supposed to be a "workers' paradise" because the entire emphasis of communism is upon the protection of workers from exploitation by employers, however, the resulting system made it impossible either to reward people for doing a good job or to penalize people for doing a bad job. Under the circumstances, selfish people found it easier to do a bad job, and most things wound up being done badly. In addition to those two problems, the USSR was put together from 16 different republics all of which had their own regional, ethnic, and religious aspirations that were not met by the USSR.

The first move was when Joseph Stalin (leader of Russia) ordered the blockage of the land route from Berlin to west Germany. (The Berlin wall.)

Containment was notably successful during the Cold War, particularly in the context of U.S. foreign policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism. A prime example is the Korean War (1950-1953), where U.S. and allied forces successfully stopped North Korea's invasion of South Korea, preserving the latter's sovereignty. Additionally, the policy was effective in Europe, where the establishment of NATO and the Marshall Plan helped stabilize Western European nations against communist influence. Ultimately, containment contributed to the eventual decline of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.

It's not so much that they didn't agree. It's more that they both were working to make nuclear weapons and they were both trying to become world powers through the use of nuclear weapons.

Me personally? I was a youngster at the height of the cold war. It was a perpetual bogeyman you hoped wouldn't come out of the closet. I remember two or three nights when I was a kid that my brothers and sisters and I went to bed at night, not totally sure we'd wake up again the next morning. The greatest joy of my life was that my kids did not have to grow up with that great a threat hanging over their heads.

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how did it start the cold war?

1.It caused the arms race

2. Plus they threatened the Soviet Union.

3. They wanted to fight for super power (basically who ruled land air and sea inc outer space)

This all lead to the cold war.

Hope this helps.

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The Americans become even more determined to stop the spread of communism by touting "The Domino Theory" where when one nation falls to communism so too the next nation .