Cold War

The level of nuclear weapons required to completely destroy both sides in any war making use of such weapons.

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Eastern Africa has sunrise first.

The sun rises in the east, so East Africa has light before the west. There is a time difference of approximately 2 hours between East and West Africa.

Some of them fought, others did menial jobs, and some did both.

220,000 people if you combine Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima by itself killed 140,000; the one dropped on Nagasaki killed 80,000.

There are a few alternate viewpoints on exactly how and when the Space Race began, but the most accepted view is that it began on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, into Earth orbit. This led to a rapid sequence of events in both the United States and the Soviet Union that helped mobilise the industrial resources of both superpowers towards the goal of 'beating' the other in space technology.

If you look a little further back in time, however, one could argue that the Space Race began in the years after World War Two with the ballistic missile programs of the United States and the Soviet Union. Ballistic missiles (in particular ICBM's, or Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles), are an example of what is known as dual-use technology, in that whilst they are designed primarily for a military purpose (i.e. delivery system for nuclear weapons across continents), they also have the power to launch satellites into space. After Nazi Germany's technological leap in the development of the V2 ballistic missile during World War Two (with a range of around 300 kilometres), the United States and the Soviet Union both clamored to gather as much information as they could about this technology in the post-war confusion of occupied Germany. The Americans were undoubtedly far more successful in this venture, due to the repatriation of a number of German rocket scientists and their blueprints to the US under a project informally named "Operation Paperclip". This included Wernher von Braun, the father of the Nazi rocketry program and inventor of the V2. With much less to go off, the Soviet Union launched its own indigenous program to develop a V2 replica from scratch - this was accomplished by a man named Sergei Korolev. Both nations then continued to build upon their rocket technology over the next decade - ostensibly from a military viewpoint, but with certain individuals such as von Braun and Korolev harbouring desires for space exploration.

1957 was a key year in that it fell during the "International Geophysical Year" - a period of time dedicated to, among other things, aeronautical and upper atmospherical research. The United States had publicly declared it's intention to launch the world's first satellite during this period; following suit, the Soviet Union decided more privately on a similar project. The original design for the Sputnik satellite was far more complicated, however due to time constraints and the desire to beat the Americans into space, it was replaced with the simpler model.

The American reaponse is commonly known as the "Sputnik Crisis", and led to, among other things, the creation of NASA (the National Aeronautical and Space Administration) as a central, civilian, unified effort for the American space program.

The people that were involved in the cold war was the Soviet Union, Communist world, and the non-communist world (The US and the USSR)

Yes it did Russia beated the Germans and America beated Japan.

America was afraid that all the Europe and the glory will have Soviet Union and it

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Some of the achievements were that they did all their history work and got a hundred in the class. Then, everyone was happy and wouldn't do bad ever again. ********************************* What? the entry above doesnt make sense. What super powers involved included the USSR, the US, and CHINA. i recommend u search USSR to find out which countries were part of it in wikipedia.org

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In 1939 when nuclear fission of uranium-235 was discovered and reported in the scientific journals Germany, England, France, and the USSR began a race to see who could produce an atomic bomb first. In 1940 Germany took over France and absorbed their atomic bomb project. In 1942 the US entered the war and England began moving their atomic bomb project to the US, fully merging it with the Manhattan Project in 1943. Germany's atomic bomb project was effectively shut down in 1943 with the remaining research limited to small heavy water moderated reactors that might be scaled up after Germany won the war to make power plant reactors. The USSR's atomic bomb project was severely resource limited and made no significant progress during the war (except to collect information on the British and US projects through spies).

However what is usually called the "nuclear arms race" actually started September 23, 1949 when president Truman announced to the world "We have evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R.". This test explosion was on August 29, 1949 at 7:00 AM local time.

Mutually assured destruction (MAD) is a doctrine of military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender

The term used during the Cold War was "brinksmanship." It refers to going to the brink of war.

The United States currently owns 9,600 nuclear weapons, while Russia currently owns 16,800. But Russia actually always had more nuclear weapons than the United States.

Russia was lacking in nuclear warheads from beginning of time to 1975. For various reasons, the USSR (and now Russia) have pretty much always had more ICBM weapons than the US, while the US maintained a larger stockpile of gravity bombs, SLBMs, and cruise missiles. Currently, as nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were forbidden under the START I treaty, only bombs, ICBMs, and SLBMs are in existence, with the number of 'usable' weapons varying over time.

The cold war was a war between two sets of organized societies; in which both sides were protected under the laws of war, had they come to blows. September 11, 2001 was a crime performed on a massive scale by criminals (Terrorists); in which the suspects face/faced criminal prosecution.

A war is a conflict between countries or groups of people because they don't like the other one's idea or they don't like their beliefs. Such as the American Civil War, they were fighting because the South wanted slavery and the North wanted slaves to be free and the South wanted to make their own country that allowed slavery there for creating the Civil War.
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World War II got the U.S. out of the Great Depression and never got any worse from there.

"There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene. "

American novelist and WW1 veteran Ernest Hemingway, in 'A Farewell to Arms', 1929

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."

French soldier Henri Barbusse, in his novel "Le Feu", 1915

policy in the 1950's that called for threatening all-out war in order to confront Communist aggression

The Axis Powers rolled their military forces through countries. Politics were swept away.

Communism and Non-Communists existed prior to WW2. We just had a temporay truce until the Axis Powers were defeated. After Germany and Japan were defeated then we concentrated on each other in the cold war. The AXIS POWERS were an immediate danger to the world.

To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments.

The Cold War started as an ideological 'war' of threats and posturing. The primary countries did not fight with each other directly -- they made threats and tried to bully. Those involved were The Allies (USA, England, France, possibly Canada) vs. The Soviet Union (Russia). Russia supplied Cuba with missiles, which was too close for USA comfort.

The Cold War was primarily between the United States and the USSR/Russia. It was about the arms race, a race of secrecy to acquire the best, most powerful weapons the quickest. The USA knew the power of nuclear weapons, since the US dropped the H-bomb on Japan. President John F. Kennedy tried to get Russia and Cuba to see the error of their ways. But there were no diplomatic avenues; the Powers weren't negotiating very well. The Arms race meant everything to Russia, but the US viewed nuclear weapons as a last resort threat to the entire human race and to planet Earth.

As it continued, The Cold War consisted of various proxy wars fought over a period of several decades from 1947 to 1991. The primary coalitions during this time included the capitalist members of NATO aligned with the United States and the communist states of the Warsaw Pact aligned with the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

The Cold War proceeded and as proxy wars included the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Soviet War in Afghanistan, as the Powers did not directly engage each other (knowing it would cause World War III), but they engaged other countries in warring. Combatants of the Korean War include South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada versus North Korea, the People's Republic of China (Red China), and the Soviet Union. Participants of the Vietnam War include South Vietnam, the United States, South Korea, Australia, and the Republic of China (Taiwan) versus North Vietnam, the People's Republic of China, and the Soviet Union. Finally, the Soviet War in Afghanistan was fought between Soviet forces and the Afghan Mujahideen.

The cold war ideology changed wartime alliances after WWII by bringing the two super powers, the United States and Russia, head to head on opposing sides even though during the war they were allies with a common enemy. During the war, both super powers were set against Nazi Germany, but they both had different ideas as to how the world should be ran afterwards and came to blows over it.

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Following the collapse of Germany and then Japan in 1945, the USA began a rapid de-militarization. It was assumed by American political leaders that the bad guys had disappeared from the planet. This childish outlook was quickly assaulted by the Soviets. The brutal reign of terror the Soviets unleashed on defenseless Germany after the war did not go unnoticed. In the east, Soviets used captured Japanese arms to build up communist Chinese units which quickly overran that country. During this time, both the USA and British governments were shot through with Soviet sympathiers and outright traitors. The Soviets were able to steal the science to build atomic weapons from these sources. Using captured German scientists they also began building a major rocket program. Gradually the USA began to awaken to the Soviet threat. Proxy units from the Soviet nation invaded southern Korea in 1950. Earlier the Soviets had tried to seize all of Berlin. China, as noted, had fallen. Soviet sponsored units were on the move in Greece, Malaysia and Turkey. When the USA went to war in Korea, it was with WWII veterans for the most part, fighting with WWII equipment. The major exception being that the air force now had excellent jet aircraft. This war was the first attempt of the USA to face the communist/Soviet threat in a major way. With this as background, the USA finally began to develop a coherent post WWII strategy. Since the Soviet/Chinese bloc was so huge and powerful (and nuclear armed), outright confrontation was essentially impossible. Instead the USA began to use its vast wealth and power to 'contain' the communist threat. Korea was fought to a draw. Next came Vietnam. Cuba was a big victory for the Soviets, in 1959. American proxy wars were fought in various parts of Latin America and Africa. Americans supported the Taliban in Afganistan in the 1980s. Gradually this policy of containment caused a drain on Soviet resources. Finally under the leadership of President Reagan the USA saw light at the end of the tunnel - a possible way to finish the Soviets. With the Soviets low on cash due to low petroleum prices, the USA moved to more and more confrontational policies. Seeing no way out, the Soviets decided to abandon their communist roots, the USSR collapsed and with it their vast empire slipped away. \