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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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How did Russia become the USSR?
during world war 1 the Russians had a war. it was between the comunist Russians and the Russians. regular Russians were white communiost were red. the communists one.then russia began to take over smaller countries around it such as the ucrane and Mongolia. they were all together and it became the ussr
Whose writings influenced American revolutionary leaders?
Locke, Rousseau, and Paine influenced the American Revolution significantly, if that helps at all...
Who committed the US to a policy of preventing the spread of communism?
Eisenhower gets the credit for it, along Truman no doubt had his input.
How many American Soldiers died during the cold war?
No American Soldiers died during the cold war.
Don't tell that to the relatives of MAJ Rudolf Anderson, an USAF U-2 pilot shot down and killed by Soviet SAMs over Cuba, on Oct. 27th, 1962, or to the relatives of Jack D. Lively, killed in the shoot down of an US Navy P2V reconnaissance aircraft by Soviet fighter planes near Vladivostok, USSR, on October 4th, 1951. Like these two, I can write here thousands more who died in similar circumstances during the forty-plus years that the Cold War lasted. To say that "No American Soldiers died during the Cold War" is nothing short of irresponsible. It's like saying that no American soldiers died during the Korean War. It took this country 50 years to acknowledge that fact. I only hope it doesn't take the American people another 50 years to acknowledge that the Cold War was indeed a war, that more than 20 million members of the US Armed Forces took part in it, of which many thousands more paid the ultimate price for the victory obtained when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, and when the Soviet Union collapsed on December 25th, 1991, Christmas Day.
What kind of political statement was made by the US' support of west Berlin?
During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the government of the United States made sure that the world understood that they would support West Berlin at all costs. It was a risky move that could had led to war, but the Soviet Union eventually backed down.
Who were the Soviet Union's allies in the cold war?
WARSAW PACT
Bulgaria
Romania
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Albania (expelled 1968)
OTHER ALLIES
Yugoslavia (until 1953)
North Korea (until 1966)
China (until 1966)
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia/Kampuchea
Afghanistan
Cuba
Mozambique
Ethiopia
Angola
Togo
Congo
Somalia (1977-78 only)
What food was eaten by the people of the Soviet Union?
i dont know do you
Any food available, WWI wheat from the United States staved off starvation. A WWII example in combat, Battle for Stalingrad, it was common to make blood omelets. Instead of butchering the cow you bleed it enough to cook the blood in to an omelet of sorts. WWII U.S. Citizens were on strict Rations for certain foods and items.
How is Castro connected to the cold war?
What led to duck and cover drills and bomb shelters in the United States during the Cold War?
arm race
What soviet actions led to the Berlin airlift?
Stalin closed all roads, railways and canals leading to Berlin. This meant that the people of West Berlin would starve: therefore, the USA, France and Britain flew in supplies of flour, coal, milk and food. This continued until Stalin lifted the Blockade in 1949.
Sometimes it was access to water, or pastures or markets. There were unbranded animals that had to be accounted for and there was the clash between sheepmen and cattlemen. Barbed wire fencing was not used on the open range only to keep your cattle in, but also to deny other people's livestock access to your water. Sodbusters were constantly trying to settle the open range, and needed to be kept at bay even if they had some fancy government document that claimed they had a right to squat on land that the cattle barons had been using for decades.
What was Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War?
Not exactly. The the USSR went bankrupt because they overspent their money on the war in Afghanistan. (not the current war) Ronald Reagan had been dealing with the Russians when all this happened. He motivated them to give up their communist regime and to allow all the nations in Europe to be freed. He motivated them to take down the wall in Germany. Unfortunately, the western Germans discovered there was a lot wrong in Eastern Berlin and Eastern Germany. They had to deal with all the pollution and other problems. It cost them a lot money and took time to reverse all the bad effects from the communist government.
How did Bay of Pigs affect John F. Kennedy reputation?
A small inlet of the Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of western Cuba. It was the site of an ill-fated invasion on April 17, 1961, when a force of 1,500 U.S.-trained guerrilla troops landed in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961, an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On April 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the BahÃa de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Trained since May, 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba and overthrow the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. The Cuban army easily defeated the rebels and by April 20, most were either killed or captured. The invasion provoked anti-U.S. demonstrations in Latin America and Europe and further embittered U.S.-Cuban relations. Poorly planned and executed, the invasion subjected President Kennedy to severe criticism at home. Cuban exile leader José Miró Cardona, president of the U.S.-based National Revolutionary Council, blamed the failure on the CIA and the refusal of Kennedy to authorize air cover for the invasion force, but perhaps more crucial was the fact that the uprising the exiles hoped and needed to spark did not happened. Much later it was revealed that the CIA task force planning the invasion had predicted that the invasion's goals unachievable without U.S. military involvement; it is unclear whether Kennedy or CIA chief Allen Dulles knew of the assessment. In December, 1962, Castro released 1,113 captured rebels in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine raised by private donations in the United States.
The Soviet Union dealt with uprisings in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s with wars. Many losses occurred when troops were brought in. Troops were ultimately deployed to deal with any type of uprising.
Couple who sold the atomic secrets to the soviet union?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, through her brother, David Greenglass. During much of the Cold War the Rosenbergs were a cause celebre, many doubting their guilt. When the Soviet Union disintegrated the archives of the KGB revealed that they had in fact done it, and were guilty as sin.
What nations were capitalist during the cold war?
Angola
Belgium
Britian
Canada
Chile
Denmark
France
Greece
Holland
Iceland
Italy
Mozambique
Nicarague
Norway
Portugal
Romania
South Africa
South Korea
Turkey
United states of America
Vietnam
West Germany
What happened in Poland after the cold war?
I don't know if the answer is relevant to the question and my grammar is pretty bad but, better have something than nothing.
One of Gorbachev's policies was Glasnost- meaning 'openness' or 'a making public'. His aim of this policy was to have a more free exchange of ideas, more debate about current issues and controversies. The -policy was going slowly under way, in April 1986 a terrible accident took place at a nuclear power station near Chernobyl Ukraine. In results of this explosion there was a massive radiation released which spread across Belorussia, Poland and into Scandinavia. Poland has banned some of the food because of the radiation. In the second stage of perestroika the elections had big influence on Poland and then on Hungary that was Poland's and Hungary's first encouragement and desire to have partial freedom which in conclusion later on led to the collapse of communism in the satellite states. 'As soon as Gorbachev came to power he made clear to the leaders of the satellite state that the USSR would no longer interfere in their internal affairs.'
The collapse of communism started in Poland. Jaruzelski was in power since 1981 he tried to improve the economy by all means though always failed. Talks began in February 1988 later on Solidarity has been allowed to be a political party, in the elections held in June 1989 Solidarity has won 92 out of 100 seats in lower house. Jaruzelski was narrowly elected President thanks to the communist seats and he chose a solidarity member, Mazowiecki, as his prime minister. In 1990 Lech Walesa came to power . 'The peaceful revolution in Poland was complete.'
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What was chauri chaura incident?
On 5 February 1922, the police station put into the fire a group of mob. 22 people burnt in it. Gandhi was deeply hurted and called out Satyagraha movement. After this Mahatma Gandhi Was arrested and sentenced 6 years jail. The five-day fast undertaken as a penance for the Chauri Chaura disaster began on the evening of Sunday, February 12, 1922.
Was the cold war the long period of tense between the US and the Soviet Union?
Yes. A 'Cold War' refers to a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates. The Cold War between the US & the Soviets lasted until 1989.
What US president increased US military and economic pressure in the USSR?
Truman did not fully trust the USSR and impressed them with the A-bomb. As the war ended, their goals in Eastern Europe became clear and Truman kept a standing army in the US. Eisenhower and Kennedy stood up to the Russians and applied what pressure they could. Johnson, Nixon and Ford worried about SE Asia and China more than the USSR, but Ronald Reagan scared them and eventually saw them fall apart.
Reason for building the Berlin Wall?
The Soviet Union didn't put the Berlin Wall up. The East Germans did. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told East Germany's dictator Walter Ulbricht to stop the flow of East German citizens into West Berlin or else. Ulbricht told his chief of construction troops, Erich Honecker, to construct a barricade. Honecker built the Berlin Wall. First understand that Germany was divided into four sectors after WWII, since the German government had failed and surrendered. The heart of these sectors was Berlin, the present day capital of Germany. The West was copposed of three sectors which belonged to the United States, France, and the United kingdom. The East solely belonged to the Soviets. As you are aware the Berlin wall was erected in 1961. And naturally the Soviets ran their sector under ridiculous Communism. The people in the East were separted from all sorts of loved ones in the West and were forbidden to have either cross borders to visit one another. The East's ecomomy was very poor and the landscape as described by a former Berlin Soldier of the Berlin Brigade was "all bombed out and in ruins." There were no advances in technogy and the factories were left the way they were since WWII. The people lived in truly harsh conditions and endured the pangs of longing to see their loved ones. These are the factors that drove and motivated people to try jumping over the wall, tunneling under it, or some other way of escaping into the West where things were maintained and taken care of a place where standards of living and the economy were higher. The Soviets naturally did not want people, their people, escaping into the west. Matters had gotten out of hand and the Soviet government had decided to build a wall-the Belin Wall-through Berlin. They did this deed in effort that the people-their people would stay inside. You can relate to this if you have a dog or a little child. say you don't want the child climbing up a staircase-so you put a gate up (a wall) preventing the child from "escaping" to the other side and reaching the stairs. Or with a dog. Say you want to keep the dog in your garage which is connected to your home becasue you ARE cooking steak inside. So you put up a gate (a wall) to keep the dog from entering and eating your steak. That is the same concept of why the Soveits built the wall. They did not want their citizens escaping into the West. People refused bravly not to let a mere wall prevent them from freedom over 5,000 escape attempts were made. however not all concluded sucessfully since soviet gaursd patrolled the wall border by foot and in high watchtowers with guns preparing to shoot down anyone that was caught escaping. 239 individuals were shoot tring to flee the East. Germans placed flowers and wooden crosses where their shoot up bodies landed as a remembrance that unintentionally served as a warning (these were in the west since the people went over and got shot thei r bodies landing in the west dead.). The Berlin wall was taken down though but that is another topic.
Cause of the 1962 confrontation between Russia and US?
The USSR retaliated to the USA's location of nuclear missiles in Europe by setting up nuclear missile bases in Cuba resulting the US blockade of Cuba.
