Cold War

The United States and the Soviet Union were able to cooperate during the Suez crisis because they wanted to avoid another war.

The CIA conducted covert operations. If people knew what they did, they wouldn't be covert operations.

You must be reffering to the Cold War.

Some were, some weren't.

They were always afraid of losing the competition because the Soviets would then have greater power, but I don't think many Americans feared the Soviet Union.

On July 8, 1950 General Douglas MacArthur was directed to assume command of all United Nations (UN) forces in Korea and to use the UN flag concurrently with the flags of all UN nations participating. General MacArthur held this command until April 11, 1951 when he was replaced by General Matthew Ridgway. General Ridgway commanded the UN forces in Korea until was assigned as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. General Ridgway was succeeded by General Mark Wayne Clark who assumed command of UN forces on May 12, 1952. General Clark commanded through the cease-fire on July 27, 1953. *As a footnote, the UN troops in Korea were not "peacekeepers." They were soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines of many nations. They were not there to "keep the peace." They were there to maintain the sovereignty of the Republic of Korea bydestroying the North Korean and Chinese forces on the Korean Peninsula. "Peacekeeper" is a fairly modern politically correct term which detracts from the true nature of the modern warrior.

commusnist north Korea being supplied by the ussr

and capitalist south Korea being supplied by the un primarily us

it ended up becoming a stalemate due to Douglas MacArthur pushing past China's comfort zone so they push south Korea back to the border where it started

formation of a strong system of safety of the country both in Europe, and on Far East boundaries.

it required the guvernment to rapidly sudized the government

Because it isn't the unborn babies' choice to die. We decide to take it into our own hands and make the claim that "It's not out of the womb, so it isn't a REAL person."

These people are just scared, ignorant, foolish, neglected, ashamed, hurt, a bunch of other things, and maybe a mix of them all.

Basically, don't steal the life of another human being.

At 3 weeks after conception the embryo's first heartbeat begins, and the brainwaves are detectable at 6 weeks. This is every human being's history.

Now you decide for yourself if this is a baby..

The cold war affected western society by when the troops came home there were no jobs for them and a depression began. Soon people who had jobs sterted working less hours and then everyone quit spending as much money. Alos when the troops came home they got married and had alot of babies and the houseing boom came along with the baby boom.

East Germans escaped in a variety of ways varying from simple plans to ingenious escape plots. The 28 years of the wall's existence saw roughly 40,000 escapees. As the wall's defenses were increased over the years so had to evolve these escape plans. While in the beginning simply sneaking through the defenses with wire cutters offered a chance of freedom, as did ramming a vehicle through the wall, or smuggling people through the border in hidden vehicle compartments, later escape plans had to evolve to more complicated methods such as digging tunnels, running zip lines from building to building, building homemade hot-air balloons.

The Soviet command economy could not keep up with the productivity of capitalist economies.

It is pretty much the exact opposite of our democratic system and our way of life.

The government determined prices, wages, and products.

In the Cold War period of recent history, stretching from the 1950s into the 1990s, a variety of especially dangerous moments may be identified. What is most widely considered to be the most dangerous moment came in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. For thirteen tense days, the United States squared off against Cuba and the Soviet Union in what many thought would be the "spark-event" that would light global nuclear war.

It is very possible if an 18 year old in world war 2 and than 5 years later joined a second time or stayed in. The person could also make it through the early years of the Vietnam war. It is possible.

Although a multifaceted question, the simple answer is the easiest. When countries like (United Soviet Socialists Republic) USSR - now Russia, and China adopted the system of government known as Communism, other countries like North Vietnam and North Korea also adopted this system of government (willingly or otherwise). South Vietnam, on the other hand was an ally of the United States, partly because of Military interests (military bases) located in Vietnam. Communism had many conflicts with the American form of government (known as democracy). Overall, there was an "initiative" (conquest would be such a strong word here) to try and unify all of the Asian continent to adopt Communism as the leading form of government in all countries (including South Vietnam and South Korea). In the 1950's, the United States and other Allies defeated Japan on the East Asian front, and Germany plus Italy on the West European Front (continental perspective here). Upon the surrender of Japan at the conclusion of World War II, the United States needed to establish a military presence in that geographical region to enforce the terms of unconditional surrender. In so much, military bases were established on mainland Asia (on part of the US) in Korea and Vietnam. It is thought that the USSR's government felt threatened by the US presence so close to their international borders. In the process of advocating and spreading Communism and its interests, North Korea and later North Vietnam invaded their southern counterparts to A) take control of the democratic government, and B) drive out the American presence (military bases and the like).

They have had no plans for peaceful coexistence. For the past 60 years they have tried to influence other countries around the world and to push their communist agenda. This is what the Cold War was all about. The Soviet's pushing communist states and the Western nations doing everything to contain the communist party.

The Soviet Union, China, North Korea and North Vietnam.

A war is a conflict but a conflict is not necessarily a war. A war is an effort to exterminate an opposing side.

WAR- Noun

1. a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.

2. a state or period of armed hostility or active military operations: The two nations were at war with each other.

3. a contest carried on by force of arms, as in a series of battles or campaigns: the War of 1812.

4. active hostility or contention; conflict; contest: a war of words.

5. aggressive business conflict, as through severe price cutting in the same industry or any other means of undermining competitors: a fare war among airlines; a trade war between nations.

6. a struggle: a war for men's minds; a war against poverty.

7. armed fighting, as a science, profession, activity, or art; methods or principles of waging armed conflict: War is the soldier's business.

8. Cards. a. a game for two or more persons, played with a 52-card pack evenly divided between the players, in which each player turns up one card at a time with the higher card taking the lower, and in which, when both turned up cards match, each player lays one card face down and turns up another, the player with the higher card of the second turn taking all the cards laid down.

b. an occasion in this game when both turned up cards match.

9. Archaic. a battle.

-verb (used without object) 10. to make or carry on war; fight: to war with a neighboring nation.

11. to carry on active hostility or contention: Throughout her life she warred with sin and corruption.

12. to be in conflict or in a state of strong opposition: The temptation warred with his conscience.

-adjective 13. of, belonging to, used in, or due to war: war preparations; war hysteria.

CONFLICT- Verb

1. to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.

2. to fight or contend; do battle.

-noun 3. a fight, battle, or struggle, esp. a prolonged struggle; strife.

4. controversy; quarrel: conflicts between parties.

5. discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: a conflict of ideas.

6. a striking together; collision.

7. incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: a conflict in the schedule.

8. Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.

Both Russia and America wanted to try and develop a new "World Government" that allowed different interests such as America's government, with religion and freedom, but restricted many military ideas such as nuclear warfare and other such world laws.

US President Harry S. Truman can be criticized for allowing the USSR to dominate Eastern Europe following WW 2. He dis learn his lesson however, and decided on a containment policy to decrease the threat of an expanding communist threat.

He showed that by his actions in the Korean War. He forced North Korea to retreat back to its original border with South Korea. On the other hand, he failed to use the US monopoly of nuclear weapons to force Stalin into giving Eastern Europe its freedom.

The U.S did not go into the Cold War, it was a result of the world situation after the Second World War ended. The alliance between Soviet Russia and the rest of the allies during it was merely one of conveniance. Don't forget U.S and British forces invaded Russian to try and oust the communist regime there after the end of the First World War. Both sides mistrusted and feared one another and the Cold War was a part of this paranioa being played out. The Soviet state wanted a weak Germany (hence its carve-up) that could not threaten it as it had aleady done twice that cantury and created a buffer zone with the countries in the eastern block - or the Warsaw Pact. The Cold War was two conflicting ideologies of two great powers, yet neither had the will or the ability to defeat the other militarily. Thus as we have seen the COld War was won on the economic table. The Soviet state could not keep up with the free market economy and the flexibility it offered. Plus eventually soviet citizens wanted their slice of the cake; consumer goods. So well done Mcdonalds, coke, levi's, hollywood.... as much as I despised your greedy, repulsive and glutonous guts you probably helped defeat communism more than any gun or diplomat. Lots of love and fun, see you in the next cold war.....that will be the one at the moment I guess....

Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia, Angola, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Cuba, and perhaps others in which armed conflicts were fought. Some Third World countries, although wars were not fought in them, were still part of the Cold War.

Korea was the FIRST "Hot" battle of the Cold War. Vietnam was the SECOND "Hot" battle of the Cold War. The Communists lost (or stalemated) with the first battle, but won the second battle. The communists were contained in Korea. They expanded in Vietnam.
The policy of containment in Vietnam was a US foreign policy to contain and isolate the spread of communism to neighboring countries. If communism were not contained in North Vietnam, then South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand would inevitably become communist as well.

It was feared that the United States would attack Communist China directly to stem the flow of Chinese fighting along side the North Korean army. The Chinese would then call on their Communist allies, the Soviet Union, to help the Chinese. The Soviets would then intervene either directly in China, or in a move to draw the United States off balance, the Soviets would launch an attack against perhaps Europe or Japan. In addition, it could not be certain if the United States or the Soviets would go nuclear in such an exchange. Thus, the Korean war could have turned into World War III. However, to forstall that, United States President Harry S Truman did not escalate the Korean "police action". Indeed, President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur to ensure it did not happen. It was General MacArthur who advocated taking the battle to the Communist Chinese in their own country.