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Cold War
The nuclear arms race divided the world in a struggle as costly as any another war. East vs. West, Communism vs. Democracy, the Bear vs. the Eagle; all these were major factors in the lives of millions for 4 decades.
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What awards and medals did the USS Enterprise cvn-65 receive from 1984-1987?
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
What are the reasons not to frop atomic bombs?
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.
What was the purpose of the Berlin airlift of 1948-1949?
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.
What was main concern in America during the cold war?
Defense of escalating nuclear attack threats, and stopping the growth of communist countries.
How is the end of the Korean war related to the cold war?
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)
What are the us and soviet aims in Europe that conflicted?
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 goal for many war hawks in the War of 1812 was?
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.
What is Vladimir Lenin important role during the cold war?
Lenin didn't do anything during the cold war. The Cold War started after WWII and Lenin died before that in 1924.
What happened on September 2 1949 that changed the nature of the cold war?
The Soviets got the "bomb" in '49 (they exploded their first nuclear device). Now, the US & USSR had the same weapon. Red China would be next. Then there would be three.
What parallels did Miller see between the Salem witch trials and the Senate hearing?
Arthur Miller saw a number of parallels between the Salem witch trials and the Senate hearings during the Red Scare. [2] Miller saw liberals become paralyzed when they saw civil rights being violated and feared that they would be accused, just as the Puritans became fearful of speaking out. The Red Scare, like the witch trials, dominated people's minds. Just as Proctor spoke out against the accusations, Miller believed that individuals could still speak out. Also, people could be excused from the accusations by naming others during the Red Scare, just as the accused in Salem could escape the consequences by naming others. [3] Those who wield power can use similar tactics to try to intimidate others, but people need to use their individual powers to fight back.
Why did President Kennedy support the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This was during the Cold War era when it was believed that the Soviet Union was trying to take over the world, bit by bit, and Cuba, as a communist country, was an ally of the Soviet Union, and hence necessarily an enemy of the US, which did not wish to be taken over by communism. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a counter-revolution, designed to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro. At that time (the 1960's) the US supported all forms of anti-communism. That's how the Cold War was fought.
What happened when more people came to work in factories during the Industrial Revolution?
There were not enough houses for people to live in (and back then they had no planning permission) so richer people used to build single roomed houses and rent them out for almost all of the poeples wages.
The factory owners would pay the workers in tokens that could only be spent at their shop so they were charged riculous prices. That is how the co-op started. A few men got together and sold things (of good quality) in the front room of one mans house and the factory workers were able to have some money left over to buy things they needed like clothes and other necessities.
What was George Kennan's proposed policy toward the soviet union?
That policy is called the 'containment policy'. It led to the US involvement in the Korean and Vietnam wars, among others.
What were the two political ideologies used in the cold war and how did they differ from each other?
The two political ideologies used in the Cold War were democracy and communism. The United States was a democratic country while the Soviet Union was communist dictatorship. We elected our leaders while they had no choice of who was in charge.
Why did Stalin fear a reunited Germany during the cold war?
Before WWII- They knew Germany was angry and wanted revenge also they knew it had some very powerful political leaders who would just love to take over the Earth.
Currently- They are one of the richest countries in Europe and would have no problem manufacturing weapons and vehicles. They also have alot of allies who wouldn't turn their back on Germany. Also they have very advanced technology for a country. As you may of heard German engineering out beats American technology. And finally they would have learned alot from their loss in WWII.
In what part of the world was the Cold War fought?
increasingly costly arms race, and a failed war in Afghanistan. A new generation of leadership came to power in 1985 in the person of Gorbachev. He was determined to end the Cold War and to bring economic and political reform to the Soviet Union. He initiated dramatic new agreements with the United States, involving unilateral concessions in the armaments race. He also brought an end to Soviet support of client governments in Eastern Europe and in Cuba. He relaxed the police state repression in the Soviet empire and took steps to introduce a democratic political process.
These initiatives rapidly improved relations with the United States and brought an end to the Cold War. What Gorbachev had not anticipated, however, was that, without the domination of the police and a monopoly of power in the hands of the Communist Party, the Soviet empire would collapse into 16 different national parts. Nationalism, always a potent force in the modern world, brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union by 1991.
Why was Berlin a cold war flashpoint between 1957 to 1963?
Because their was a wall down the Middle, separating East Germany and Berlin from West Germany and West Berlin. The East side was supported by the Soviets while the West side was supported by Americans.
The most pressing problem for the new Russian government after the Soviet Union collapsed was?
the economy
How did Korea become a post WWII cold war issue between the us and the soviet union?
At Yalta, the US asked the USSR to declare war on Japan. Russia wanted Korea as its reward. Instead Korea was divided in half, the People's Republic of North Korea and the Republic of South Korea. In 1950, Communist North Korea invaded the South.
How did Kennedy handle the cold war affairs?
Kennedy responded to the events of the Cold War very rapidly by issuing a number of statements and initiating contact with a number of other countries.
What differences separated the Soviet Union from the US in the years following World War 2?
The United States had a capitalist economy; the Soviet Union had a command economy.
