Cold War

The USSR & US "Were" the Cold War. The earth was a divided house. One side of the globe was communist; the other side was non-communist. Those that were neutral were constantly striving to remain neutral.

The united states mostly with hundreds of planes sending supplies and much needed items.

I believe it was Lithuania (Lietuva).

Lithuania left in 1990, followed by Latvia and Estonia. Then Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus dissolved it in December of 1991.

Phyisically the GDR, politically it was caused by the division of Germany by introducing a different currency in the Western Sectors of Germany (including West-Berlin despite being under the control of 4 and not three powers) and the decision of the western allies not to crash down Germany (Morgenthau-Plan) but to build it up as a political wall against the soviet dominated east Europe.

Since Western currency could buy any shop in the East-Berlin empty and due to the Socialist policy to pay similar wages to high-qualified workers ( MDs, engineers etc.) and lower qualified workers, it became an economical problem to loose high-qualified staff to the Wester sectors. Also counter revolutions have been tried in the East sector when there was no wall - e.g. 17th June 1953.

Nuclear weapons are dangerous because they have not been around long enough to see the long term effects. They also may release many toxic chemicals.

The Federal Civil Defense Administration was a geovernment agency that was formed to protect the United States against the Soviet Union, its atomic attacks, and its Communist threats.

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The presence of Soviet Missiles on Cuba was a problem at the time because Cuba is only a few hundred miles from the US Coast, easily within reach.

Khrushchev until '64; Brezhnev until the end of the war.

The weather,starvation extreme cold,and his insanity and belief he had to control..and could control. he was a horrible human..if that's what one copuld call him..

It is referred to as the "Cold War."

We gave food and supplies to West (west, or east, i think its west) Berlin. Since Germany banned us from going in and driving supplies to them, we decided to get creative and start airlifting the supplies to them. This was of course, to keep W. Berlin from falling to Communism, which the other half of Germany was. Oh yeah, and the Berlin wall was put up, so people could not go to the W. Berlin area (coming from E. Berlin), however you could go to E. Berlin (coming from W. Berlin).

Detente between the United States and the Soviet Union led to a softening of the tensions between the two nations. It eventually led to the end of Cold War.

The USA became involved in 1960, when President Kennedy sent military advisors to Vietnam. The nation was in a civil war. The US began to send troops in a large scale around 1964. At one point the US had 500,000 troops in Vietnam. The US was trying to keep communism from spreading in southeast Asia. The US did not wish to escalate the war into a larger theater. With that said, the US played a more defensive war. For example, the US did not invade North Vietnam. Popular unrest on the American home front became shocked at US losses. President Nixon end the war in 1973.

The cold war was a "Mental War"; if it hadn't been, it would have been a real shooting "hot war." The mental anquish during the cold war consisted of not knowing when the "Mushroom Clouds" would appear. Nuclear bombs exploding in your neighborhood.

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The US invested vast sums of money in the economic reconstruction of Europe, following World War II. The Allies and defeated Germany and neutral nations were asked to join. Massive aid went to 16 nations and some of the money served a political purpose--it overcame the economic and social chaos in which Communism flourished. Once the economies of these nations were back on track, they could resume trading with the US, which would aid our economy.

Both North Korea and North Vietnam got to test all of the new Soviet and Chicom (J series versions) MiG15s, MiG17s, MiG19s (Chicom versions only), MiG21, SAMs, and SAGGER anti-tank missiles, etc.

And they got to test them against the most modern American tanks & jets in the US arsenal.

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Both the US and the Soviet Union were well aware of the mass destruction that a nuclear war would cause. Each country would in all likely circumstances, would be destroyed along with many other nations in the world. The power of nuclear weapons were the prime reason they were never used, nor even the thought of them being used.

The USSR invaded Czechoslovakia on the morning of August 21, 1968. The invasion was sparked by the growth of a reform movement in Czechoslovakia also known as the "Prague Spring." Soviet forces remained in Czechoslovakia from 1968 until 1990.

NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Association, formed from the aftermath of the 1947 US Truman Doctorine in 1949.

Mao for Red China, Chang Kai Shek for Nationalist China.

In some ways Kennedy's commitment to the space program was an extension of the Cold War. Kennedy wanted to surpass the Russians in space exploration. It was a contest of technology.

It depends on how you read the question.

If the question is asking what are the most important resources for Middle East exports, the answers are petroleum and natural gas.

If the question is asking what resource is most valuable to Middle Easterners, it is water.

The U.S. and the Soviet Union both started building their militaries faster