Cold War

There is (was) only one reason. The A-Bomb. Without the A-Bomb...there would have been no cold war. The "bomb" created a situation in which TOTAL declared wars could no longer be fought without "the risk of mutually assurred destruction" to all peoples involved. Translation: Cold War.

world war II

Yes, they did. Nuclear weapons were first produced in World War 2, and delivery systems were evolving that included missles instead of just manned bombers. People were afraid of nuclear attack. School children were taught to hide under their desks if a warning went out. Those who lived in or near large cities knew these urban areas had been targeted, along with military installations. This was all due to the cold war that America was in with Russia. The people were sure that both nations would attack, and destroy them.

Harriet Tubman

A-bomb.

A plan to waeponize outer space for defense capabilities

Whatever the rest of Europe felt, they felt it too. Britain, cold war wise, was part of Europe.

The term iron curtain was used by Winston Churchill to describe the border between communist western Europe and democratic eastern Europe.

India, China and USA

The Korean & Vietnam Wars (1950-1953) & (1961-1975) respectively, were the only "proxy wars" fought during the cold war. Both of those "Limited Wars" (Limited to Conventional Weapons only-No Nukes) were "Hot" battles of the Cold War.

Communist rebellions, insurrections, guerrilla activites (such as attempted by Castro's Lieutenant Che Gueverra in Central/South America), etc, never fully developed into "wars" involving showdowns such as they did in Korea & Vietnam.

"shawl" originates from the Persian word shal

Keeping up with communist new weapon technology (and they us), and fighting them in Korea and Vietnam.

Defense spending. Military personnel received massive pay increases under Reagan.

The invasion of Cambodia

Flash! Mr. Winchell was known to have a rapid-fire machine-Gun like delivey which would tend to produce excitement if not panic. a Winchell announcement that there is no cause for alarm ( say, following a successful Bomb Test) might have the opposite effect. Winchell was an alarmist , but had a popular, tactical style that immediately flagged attention. Today it would be considered somewhat hackney akin to the phony excitement of some Newscasts and Newscasters such as WINS with Marimbas, drum beats and terse- rapid fire commentary.

The Soviets tested their first weapon in 1949. And they didn't invent it themselves; spies gave it to them; they were later found and executed.

They actually didn't steal it, it was created in 1947 under The Soviet weapons program under the leadership of physicist Igor Vasilievich Kurchatov, and then tested fr the frst time in 1949.

There was no high profiled WORLD crisis going on in 1980.

Money. You can call it politics, but the bottom line is power, which equates to money. Always look at the bottom line: if nobody was making money selling arms and power, peace would break out all over the place.

The possibility of nuclear warfare existed and developed the strategic concept called MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction. The essence of this doctrine was that an attack using atomic devices would be countered with a massive counter attack involving such a massive deployment of nuclear devices that the earth would be reduced to a bunch of radioactive ashes in which no one: belligerents or bystanders could possibly survive. Blast away and the earth will die. Shoot at us and we will destroy the world that we both occupy. Give it your best shot because it is a no win proposition. This was the the Cold War, if you build one bomb, our nation will build five. If you go with hydrogen bombs, our nation will produce multi-warhead hydrogen bombs. Escalation was present at every turn. Madness was present at every turn. The Band Played On.

This was the era before there was the internet, social media, or even cable TV. People communicated via telephone, by sending letters, listening to radio, watching television (there were only a few channels), or reading books, magazines and newspapers. The fact that there were only a limited number of ways to communicate with other countries made it much easier for an autocratic government, such as in the Soviet Union, to censor what people could hear or see or read.

Today, when governments try to do this, many people can usually get around it by going to social media and finding out the information their leaders are trying to hide. But during the cold war, some countries had more communication and others had much less. The United States tried, through Voice of America (VOA), to send radio programs to communist countries; a couple of music programs were allowed in, but for the most part, signals from VOA were jammed, so that people in communist countries (or "behind the Iron Curtain," as it was called back then) could not hear other points of view. And even in relatively free countries like the United States, the government consistently stressed that Communism and Communist leaders were a danger to the world and to America. People were taught to fear what the Soviet Union might do, and both the Russians and the Americans were regularly told by their media not to trust each other.

John f kennedy

We landed a man on the moon because of it!

they didnt agree with there rules.

Yes. During the cold war, the US was under constant threat of ICBM attack from the USSR. Due to the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, the US was prevented from developing interceptors to shoot down those ICBM's.