Cold War

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.

space flight

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

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