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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 was Leonid Brezhnev famous for?
Leonid Ilych Brezhnev (1906-1982) was famous mainly for his new style of governance. He believed in more and more power and made it to grab power from local to the central governments. He put the whole world in a sort of Cold War.
Prof. Dr. Vir Singh, India
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Who was brezhnev's predessessor?
Yuri Andropov, in 1982. He didn't sat so long. After him, Konstantin Chernenko came in, in 1984, and the year after, Mikhail Gorbachew.
Why did the US get involve in the cold war?
The question makes it appear as if the Cold War was already in progress when the US became involved (as it had done in the two world wars), but it did not happen exactly like that. The US and USSR emerged from World War 2 as the two most powerful nations on the winning side, but with diametrically opposed governments and ideologies. In World War 2, Democracy and Communism had combined to defeat Fascism. The Cold War was a predictable struggle for supremacy between the victors, with the US leading Democracy, and the USSR as the leader for Communism. They were unable to fight each other directly without having another world war, so they found other ways (espionage, surveillance, propaganda, arms escalation, local wars), and that is what made it the Cold War, in contrast to a hot war (aka real war or shooting war).
How did the cold war impact the Korean war?
The Korean War was, in sense a "proxy" war between USSR and USA. Although it was between China, North Korea on one side and the UN forces on the other, it was actually Stalin who authorized Kim Il Sung to invade the newly formed South Korea. This war impacted the Cold War as tensions rose a large amount. It rose as the USSR was helping North Korea by giving them military aid. Tensions between the USA and Communist China also rose as China sent 500000 of its own troops (so called "volunteers": probably a propaganda move) to aid North Korea. Several US generals campaigned to invade China, but President Harry Truman objected out of fear for a World War Three.
What did President Carter do about the Cold War Tensions?
President Carter tried to work with the Soviets to quell the Cold War tensions. This included meetings with Leonid Brezhnev about the situation between East and West Berlin. Carter also tried to work with the Russians on joint missions into outer space.
Stalin started the Berlin Blockade in 1948 as a first step in a plan to pull West Germany into the Soviet sphere of influence. He expected West Berlin to eventually begin accepting supplies from Soviet East Germany, effectively bringing all of Berlin under Soviet control. He believed that if he could control Berlin, West Germany would soon follow.
Who came up with the idea of the iron curtain?
stalin wanted to block people from going to western europe so he made the iron curtain to block them.
Did the Berlin airlift increase tensions?
Yes. Because Stalin wanted to block off Berlin from the USA because they were trying to help them by introducing the Marshall Plan. Therefore, when he set up the Berlin Blockade and America knew that the only way into Berlin was air (if the USA tried to violently enter Berlin any other way this would have been seen as an act of war) they flew over their planes to provide aid (The Marshall Plan) this greatly frustrated Stalin. However, he realised that he couldn't do anything about it and realised the Berlin Blockade was not working so had to re-open connections.
Why did democracy fail in many new nations?
In many of the new nations, the people elected to office had no training in either government or discipline. Their power went to their heads. They did not come up with practical programs.
What was cuba role in the cold war?
They just allowed the Soviets to put missiles aiming towards the US and fought some small proxy wars with the US.
How did building a bomb shelter affect the American society during the cold war?
it made the people of the us frightened and full of fear from the soviet union and being attacked
it wasn't fought, it was a stand off of nuclear superpowers.. aka USA vs USSR
What was the result of the french defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954?
The defeat led to the eventual expulsion of French forces from all of Indochina .
It was not so much opposed, but there were people , largely in the (social improvement belt) who felt it was a gigantic waste of money, and indeed should have been throttled back ( as it was after several Moon Landings) on economic grounds alone. Some saw it as a grandstand play for the Armed Forces- to draw attention away from Vietnam. I am not sure but it is plausible that Martin Luther King may have raised his opposition, being preoccupied with Soul and social issues.
Nicholas Steno was a keen observer of nature at the time when many scientists were content to learn about the world by reading books. through dissection, Steno made important advances in the field of geology, contributing three important principles that geologist use to determine the order in which geological event occurred. He was a Danish anatomist, geologist & religious leader as well.
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The son of a goldsmith, Steno was educated in his native city of Copenhagen before beginning his travels and studies abroad in 1660. While studying anatomy in Amsterdam he discovered the http://www.answers.com/topic/parotid salivary http://www.answers.com/topic/duct, also called Stensen's duct after the Danish form of his name. Other important anatomical findings included his realization that muscles are composed of fibrils and his demonstration that the http://www.answers.com/topic/pineal-gland exists in animals other than man. (René Descartes had considered the pineal gland the location of the soul, believing that both were found only in man.)
http://www.answers.com/topic/steno-director-writer-comedy obtained his medical degree from http://www.answers.com/topic/leiden in 1664 and the following year went to Florence, where he became physician to the grand duke Ferdinand II. In the field of geology he made important contributions to the study of crystals and fossils. His observations on http://www.answers.com/topic/quartz crystals showed that, though the crystals differ greatly in physical appearance, they all have the same angles between corresponding faces. This led to the formulation of Steno's law, which states that the angles between two corresponding faces on the crystals of any chemical or mineral species are constant and characteristic of the species. It is now known that this is a consequence of the internal regular ordered arrangement of the atoms or molecules.
Steno's geological and mineralogical views were expressed in his De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus (1669; An Introductory Discourse on a Solid Body Contained Naturally Within a Solid). The curious title refers to the solid bodies we refer to as fossils found in other solid bodies. Steno was particularly concerned with the common Mediterranean fossils known at the time as 'glossipetrae' (tongue stones), thought by some to have fallen from the sky and by others to have grown in the earth like plants. They were triangular, flat, hard, and with http://www.answers.com/topic/discernible crenellations along two sides.
In 1666 Steno was presented with the head of a giant shark. He was immediately struck by the close similarity between the glossipetrae and sharks' teeth. In attempting to understand this correlation Steno formulated two important principles to explain how solids form in solids. By the first, an ordering rule, it proved possible to tell which solidified first by noting which solid was impressed on the other. As glossipetrae left their imprint in the surrounding rocks they must have been formed first. Therefore it made no sense to suppose that they grew in the http://www.answers.com/topic/stratum.
Steno's second rule proclaimed that if two solids were similar in all observed respects then they were likely to have been produced in the same way. It followed that the similarity between the glossipetrae and sharks' teeth revealed them as fossilized teeth, a revolutionary claim at the time. But Steno's rulesoffered more than an explanation of glossipetrae; they in fact offered a novel way of interpreting the fossil record, one which would be followed increasingly by later geologists.
Steno was brought up a Lutheran but converted to Catholicism in 1667, taking holy orders in 1675. In 1677 he was appointed Titular Bishop of Titopolis (in Turkey), catering for the spiritual needs of the few Catholics surviving in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.
Where is the origin of it's curtains for you?
From Edgar G. Robinson in one of the films in which he portrayed a gangster - sorry I do not know which one though .
Which country dropped the atomic bomb in the cold war?
No nation dropped an atomic weapon during the cold war. The cold war is not the same as World War 2. Two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan by the US at the end of World War 2. The cold war is called 'cold' because it was not an actual armed conflict. It was a period marked by a conflict of ideologies, propaganda and fear.
