Cold War

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.

FDR did want the US involved in the conflict raging in Europe. He feared, rightly so, that the Germans might manage to subdue large portions of Europe, which they did. And that the goal of Hitler's Third Reich, a united states of Europe with Germany as it's head, was within grasp of Hitler. FDR also knew though that there were very strong anti-war feelings in the US. During WWI, the British had made the Germans out to be monsters because they desperately wanted the US' involvement. And at that time, all trans-Atlantic communication cables went thru Britain, so the British were able to cut off any pro-German coverage. There is a story of a reporter who was with the Germans during the initial invasion of Belgium and into France. He was shocked when he returned to the US to read about the baby killing Germans. He stated he had never seen this happen while he was there. So many in the US thought that the British were just trying the same trick all over again. And there was also, though many do not like to admit, a strong communist movement in the states. This movement was taking it's orders from Moscow and due to the non-aggression pact, they supported Germany (up until the Germans invaded the Soviet Union). FDR wanted the US in the war, but also realized that he could not declare war without Congressional approval and this he did not have. It took the bombing of Pearl Harbor to finally give FDR the reason to enter the conflict

The Soviet Union was a ruthless expansionist empire, as shown both by its actions, in overrunning Eastern Europe, and its statements, such as, most famously, that of Nikita Kruschev who said "we will bury you" in a UN speech (not very diplomatic of him). The USSR was also very heavily armed with both conventional and nuclear weapons. As a result, US policy was shaped by fear.

The Mujahedin forces that resisted the U.S.S.R during the Soviet Invasion were sponsored/advised by a covert branch of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The withdrawal of Soviet troops served as a theological victory for the United States, who at the time was in a Cold War with the Soviets. It also served to reinforce the Afghan mystique, that no invader has succeeded in taking Afghanistan from the Afghans.

The relatively bloodless conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union was called the Cold War. It lasted from the 1950s to about 1991.

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Read about the Berlin Wall.

It divided the west and east of Germany, east was controlled by Soviet Union and west was getting help from Britain and United Sates. The Soviet union was spreading communism and the Americans wanted to spread capitalism.

The dates usually applied to the Cold War are 1947-1991. It had a lot to do with the Berlin Wall and the division of Germany after WWII, and tension between the USA and the USSR which resulted in the arms race.

The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War

The usual growing pains "brush wars" that 3rd world countries experienced. Vietnam was the only head-ache the US had to heavily deal with.

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because they helped the soviets get info of the atomic bomb

Truman actually gave the command to detonate the first nuclear weapon & he was the US president in office when man left the old world (conventional) and crossed into the atomic age in 1945. When that A-Bomb went off, the cold war began...even though the Soviets didn't get their bomb until 1949 (stolen from the US via spies).

On the 20th of August 1968, troops and tanks from the Soviet Union and other members of the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. This brought an immediate change in relations between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia and was due to increasing opposition to communism within Czechoslovakia, leading to reforms under Dubcek, and the reactions of Moscow to these reforms.

The first reason for a change in relations was the growth of opposition in Czechoslovakia to Soviet control. This was due to what the Soviet Union had done in 1948, they murdered Jan Masaryk. Once Jan was killed the elections were rigged and they put Antonin Novotny in power from 1957. Antonin was very unpopular amongst the Czechs as he was a hard-line communist who followed closely in the Soviet Union's footsteps and wouldn't introduce reform no matter what the Czechs wanted. He was very slow to flow Khrushchev's destalinization policy but he took much longer to release political prisoners who were jailed because of Stalin. This all caused more people to oppose the Soviet Union.

Furthermore the Soviets were concerned because: they didn't want the new ideas from Czechoslovakia to spread, Czechoslovakia was becoming closer to West Germany and industrial relations between West Germany and Czechoslovakia were improving. In 1968 on the 20-21 of August hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops along with troops from Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland and Hungary and were greeted with petrol bombs being thrown at them, as well as, buildings being set on fire, protestors assembling in Wenceslas Square, barricades being set up in streets, students tearing down street names to confuse invaders, students climbing into the tanks to try and argue with the Soviet soldiers as they were so desperate and the anti-Soviet broadcasters kept on broadcasting by moving from hiding place to hiding place but there wasn't any resistance by the Czechoslovakian army as they were ordered not to fight back and so around 100 people died, another thing that happened in 1968 was Dubcek and the other leaders being arrested and escorted to Moscow. These had consequences like the demonstrations, which continued going until April 1969, the Czech communist party being purged and the Brezhnev document - this doctrine redefined communism as a one-party system and declared that all member countries had to remain part of the Warsaw Pact

As of 7-14-11 The USS Enterprise CVAN/CVN-65 has received

the:

Combat Action Ribbon 5 awards

Joint Service Meritorious Service Award

Navy Unit Commendation 4 awards

Meritorious Unit Citation 4 awards

Navy 'E' Awards 3 awards (since there has been a ribbon)

Navy Expeditionary 2 awards

National Defense 3 awards

Armed Forces Expeditionary 16 awards

Vietnam Service 5 awards

Southeast Asia Service

Global Terrorism Expeditionary

Global Terrorism Service

Armed Forces Service 3 awards

Humanitarian Service 2 awards

Sea Service 6 awards

RVN Presidential Unit Citation

RVN Gallantry Cross Unit awards

NATO award

Kuwait Liberation

I am sure there will be more awards of the sea service ribbon and the global terrorism awards and maybe more before she goes cold steel in 2013

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The question presupposes that it should not have been used. I don't agree.

This technology was going to get out sooner or later. If not used in WW2, it would have been used some other time. Until it was used once, the fear of it wouldn't be there. It's the fear of what we all saw in WW2 that has prevented it from being used again since.

The use in WW2 saved lives. That's not debateable. When you look at the ferocity of opposition the Japanese were putting up against every advance the US made, the invasion of the Japanese homeland would have been a bloody slog with FAR more projected deaths on BOTH SIDES than the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Now, you could argue the use of a SECOND bomb at Nagasaki was unnecessary. That is a fair debate. But dropping AN atomic bomb if it hadn't happened in WW2 would have inevitably happened sooner or later. Whether the US did it or someone else did it.

That Communism would spread all over the world.

After World War II, Berlin was divided into East Berlin and West Berlin. The United States, France, and Britain occupied West Berlin. The Soviet Union occupied East Berlin. The Soviet Union soon blocked all supplies from going into West Berlin. In response to this, the U.S. and Britain conducted the Berlin Airlift. For nearly one year, they flew in 2.5 million tons of food and fuel to West Berlin.

So the main idea was to get supplies into West Berlin.

Defense of escalating nuclear attack threats, and stopping the growth of communist countries.

Cold War is when US and USSR is fighting on the economic functions (capitalism, communism). Korean War started because USSR wanted to spread Communism to the Pacific. Why? USSR was a group of Communist countries and same with US (they had NATO, USSR had something called Warsaw Union) so the more members, the bigger they become. When China and Northern Korea (North didn't exist yet officially) attacked south, US and UN stopped them from conquering the peninsula. So the Korean War is started, and is, officially, going (although the armistice was signed, it didn't end)

At the end of World War 2, The Western Nations of the allied forces wanted all of the European nations to be freed and allowed to be self ruling AND democratic. Democracy hating Dictator Stalin was not going to do that with the nations he took from the Nazi Germans. The continual conflict over this matter between Stalin and FDR and Churchill ended up in a stale mate. Stalin got his nations to keep under communist Soviet rule and the other half of Europe the western allies liberated were allowed to be free and democratic. This sparked The 50 year Cold War.

A crucial foreign policy goal for many "war hawks" in the war of 1812 was the capture and annexation of Canada. Annexation means the acquisition of a state's territory by another state by the use of force.

Lenin didn't do anything during the cold war. The Cold War started after WWII and Lenin died before that in 1924.