Cold War

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

The Soviets wanted to prop up Afghanistan's unpopular communist government against Islamic guerrillas.

The Iron Curtain divided Europe from the Communist Bloc during the Cold War. It was built in various places of stone, chain link, or barbed wire, with watchtowers and checkpoints guarding its length. "The Berlin Wall" separating East and West Berlin in Germany was undoubtedly the finest example of the physical and ideological barrier of the Iron Curtain.

A Cold War is a war without open military conflict between two or more nations which includes spying, sabotage, and economic and political brinksmanship designed to bring the opposing nation(s) to submission or failure. A Proxy War is a war where the nations in military conflict are being directly and often primarily funded by greater nations who are often in a cold war against each other. This allows for military conquest without the need to send one's own troops into battle. The US and the USSR used this strategy in nations around the world during their cold war. This was done most notably in South and Central America and The Middle East.

The main concern of the Soviet Union during the Cold War was to match or exceed American and NATO military might so as to deter any offensive action on their part -- or emerge victorious from any direct conflict. Hand in hand with this concern, the Soviet Union also sought to establish friendly rulers and governments in other nations in the world-community.

Even though some historians have started putting more emphasis on Soviet participation in the war (it's a popular thing lately); the fact remains that Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese leadership in general, had just spent 15 years getting rid of the Japanese, then the French (1940-1954). Within one year they find themselves involved trying to oust the United States from Vietnam (Eisenhower's administration, with US military advisers). Ho Chi Minh and his countrymen took NO RISKs of having MORE foreign nations, especially the Soviet Union, establish a FOOT HOLD on their soil. This is one of the reasons North Vietnam sent their MIG fighter pilot trainees to the USSR and Red China, rather than have those two countries send instructors to North Vietnam...that would have been a FOOT HOLD. North Vietnam wanted to retain it's newly won independence from foreign nations (Japan, France, etc.). It would quickly lose that independence if it allowed the USSR and Red China to establish themselves in their country. The Soviets/Red Chinese sent technicians to teach/operate the SAM (Surface to Air Missile) anti-aircraft/radar defense systems in North Vietnam. These men were watched very closely by the Hanoi government.

Nixon was more of a visionary, seeing China's potential, not to help communism, but to further his own country's power, but also separate even more the already tense Sino-Soviet Relations, Reagan, was a hardline anti-communist, and saw to put immense pressure on the gorbachev administration, with the reformist gorbachev and his "Perestroika" and "Glastnost" ideals, saw the Soviet Union incapable to survive the multiple revolutions, and the reforms which led to Reagan's famous words "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" Reagan at the fall of the berlin war ceremony, Reagan saw communism as a threat to be erased but Nixon saw it as a way to further his own country's aims at dealing a decisive blow at the soviet sphere of influence, but also seize the potential hidden in the massive chinese labour force, you could saw Nixon is the reason you see made in china in 99% of the products in the United States.

By allowing greater freedom in Czechoslovakia, they risked the other warsaw pact countries demanding the freedom.

if Czechoslovakia was allied to the west, it would create a frontier for the Americans to match into Russian Ukraine from west Germany

The brits

The Russians won in Europe, and the U.S. won in the Pacific. Without the Eastern Front, continental Europe and England (U.K.) would still be theThird Reich. Ireland would have been allowed to be independent, as well as Spain.

Japan lost in the pacific and Germany lost in Europe

For the Western Allies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) which still exists; for the Eastern Bloc countries (Soviet Union and her allies) the Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance,or the Warsaw Pact, which ended in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

it was an arms race to see who had the bigger and better weapons

i dont no what it is potos

the broadcasting of pro-American propaganda

As superpower United States watches other superpowers in the game of global domination, especially if that another superpower is a totalitarian state. If not checked Soviet or communist control could spread to western Europe and all over the world as communist ideas were very popular at the time.

Although Joseph Stalin ruled through to his death in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev, who ruled from 1953 to 1964, is probably more important for the 1950s.

The British had a blockade to prevent supplies and reinforcements from reaching the Continental Army.

One of the definitions of the word "war" in the English Language Dictionary is, "...any conflict or competition suggesting active hostility...such as a war of words..."

1. What happened was that the generation that lived during the cold war era never gave the term "(Cold) War" any attention (it wasn't important). There were far too many more serious things going on...like Korea or Vietnam, for example.

2. That old trap of simplicity kicked in, "Cold War" became so much easier to say, spell, write, etc. than "a military stand-off/confrontation with the Communist Super Powers." Folks just said, "cold war" and that said it all, they knew what you meant.

3. AFTER the cold war ended on or about 1990, all of a sudden a new generation kicks in, and they are confused about the term "(Cold) War"...and understandably so. That word "war" which had been abused by the people that lived it, and didn't think it was important, now have to explain it.

4. To make matters extremely worse, those military personnel serving during that era, and never fought a hot war, now demanded medals for the cold war. With that approved, now military veterans have confused the newer generation even more for receiving medals during the cold war that wasn't even a war. But people are like that, they love medals. As a staff officer in General Washington's Continental Army once remarked, "what a man won't do for a purple piece of cloth" (the first generally accepted US medal; the Purple Heart).

Bottom line: Just stick to the dictionary definition as to why the cold war was called a war.

It failed.

The United States and The Soviet Union were Cold War adversaries! Both sides wanted a one-up supremacy in being the first country to go to the Moon and explore Space. With the threat of nuclear weapons so strong in the 1960s, the thought that an enemy would claim part of Space (to do whatever "evils") was very much a threat.

Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia

Wagner-Connery act

During the Cold War, almost every nation was aligned with one side or the other, and they received military aid, economic aid, and lots of pressure from their patron, whether the US or the USSR, to do their part for the alliance. Some countries experienced terrible wars, particular the two Koreas and the two Vietnams. There were many smaller skirmishes, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.