Cold War

For the most part it was the Cuban Missile Crisis that made the country so dangerous, but events like the Invasion off Cuba didn't help.

They scared off the near countries with threats and they gave up without a fight. they also shot bombs at them to prove their threats

It pointed the way for Mikhail S. Gorbachev's reform program twenty years.

4 reasons to it. Firstly,Politically and Ideological difference. While Soviet is Communism with Central Economy style, US is a Democracy with a Capitalism style that is clearly challenges each other. Secondly, Mutual distrust. While US was planning to use atomic bomb on Japan, the US told all the WW2 allies except USSR (Soviets) before the actual bombing which USSR was part of the WW2 allies. This would made Stalin (Leader/Dictator of Soviets) suspicious of whether if the US were to drop the similar weapons on them. Thirdly, ever since WW1 (1905-1918), Russian Civil War (1919-1921) and WW2 (1939-1944, For Russia or USSR.However,the Asia Pacific side was until 1945 when the last man , Japan had surrendered) , Western borders of Russia (Before Soviets era and present name after Soviets' dissolution in 1991) had been a target for the attacker to get it and WW2 alone, about 20 millions of Russians had died. Therefore, Stalin must create a buffer zone in Eastern Europe in order to prevent such wars from taking place. However, he had stationed troops from Russia to Eastern Germany that was quite far from Russia and all of them were turned into Communist Government and listen to Russia promptly without questions by force because the elections held by Soviets were not free and fair. Hence, the US thinks that the Soviets were going to dominate the whole Europe or even the World. This had threaten the US main belief. Lastly, the US president, Truman , had a Domino theory that beliefs if a country falls into Communism, the neighboring countries would again, fall into communism and spread it to the whole world even without the "buffer zone". This had resulted into US supporting South Vietnam (Republics,Democracy) and on the other hand,USSR and PRC (People's Republic of China or the Mainland China- NOT Taiwan which is Republic of China, ROC) supports North Vietnam (Communist,Socialism) in Vietnam War that resulted loss in US and the South that led to a reunification in Vietnam because the US fear that the North might spread Communism into the Whole South-East Asia. Also, the Korean War was also had the similar result, except that because of lack of USSR support, it had led into a draw until now.

Why Soviet Union has to name (or rename) some country. The country itself change its name. Germany were splitted into two parts: The DDR and BRD

DDR- Deutsche Demokratisch Republik (German Democratic Republic, or so called Eastern Germany) and BRD- Bundes Republik Deutschland (German Federal Republic or so called West Germany)

With the exception of the Korean War, there were no major physical conflicts of the Cold War. The "War" was actually a political stalemate and an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. There was evident paranoia in both countries of nuclear warfare, but it never amounted to anything but the instillation of fear in the public.

The Berlin Wall was not in its entirety important to the US in a large way, any trade that they had with East Berlin would have been interrupted and also the wall stopped many skilled workers leaving the Soviets to work for the Allies. The Berlin Wall was not in its entirety important to the US in a large way, any trade that they had with East Berlin would have been interrupted and also the wall stopped many skilled workers leaving the Soviets to work for the Allies.

to reform the economy of the ussr and keep up with japan and america

Belgium

They were afraid of losing control of eastern Europe.

The really concerned folks built bomb shelters in their backyards. Everyone else just learned to live with it; it was like having an automobile accident (car accident)...you didn't stop driving your car because you were afraid of having a car accident, you went out and drove your car! If ya had an accident...ya had an accident! Atomic war threats were the same thing...folks didn't stop living because of cold war fears.

The Soviet Union government collapsed

this question is super hard to answer because the U.S. tries very hard to disguise how it gives aid and to whom.

To Mexico they give money for drug intervention, used military products, farm aid, social aid, direct money to be used as they want, and the list goes on and on,

Why does the U.S. want to spend so much time hiding what it gives as foreign aid.

Why not be just plain straight forward and list each item to get a total.

what i can root out we gave Mexico in 2007 over 60 million dollars.

The above information is not correct. The US is in fact 100% transparent to the entire world on every cent it gives to another nation.

Here is a link to the page that has a listing of US financial aid to Mexico. The first link divides according to which agency, the rest provide it listed according to different perimeters.

http://gbk.eads.usaidallnet.gov/query/do?_program=/eads/gbk/tablesByCountry&cocode=5MEX

For 2011 it was increased by another 310 million making our annual "donations" and "loans" just under one billion dollars.

It increased the tension, but the tension was high already because of other Cold War events around the world. China invaded Tibet in 1950. France was fighting the Viet Minh in Indochina. And there was what Churchill called the Iron Curtain in Europe, not to mention the fact that the USSR had recently "acquired" the secret of atomic fission.

The Iron Curtain was the de facto division between communist societies and democracies during the cold war.

Russia placed missiles in Cuba during the cold war to provide counter attack if the USA. made a attack. The missiles were eventually moved out of Cuba when JFK won a debate between Fidel Castro, JFK, and Nikita Khrushchev.
because the U.S. already has missiles in turkey
The Soviet missiles were located in Cuba, because it was close enough to the Soviet enemy(US), and Fidel Castro was willing to put the missiles in his country.

It's a stretch to say that they were aligned with the Soviet Union - after the Yom Kippur War, Egypt actually aligned itself with the United States. But they were a Soviet client state because the Soviet Union decided to back the Arab militaries, as opposed to the United States, which backed Israel. But there was no actual alliance between Egypt and the Soviet Union, and neither one had any obligation to defend the other in the event of a war.

American Indians represented less than one percent of the service deaths. Black deaths were about 15 percent in the Army, 13 percent in the Marines, four percent of Navy deaths and nine percent of USAF deaths. Asians had no more than one percent deaths in any service. About 7260 blacks died and 96 percent of those were in the Army or the Marines. About 83 percent of the Army deaths were White and 85 percent of all Marine deaths were White. Hispanic deaths wer between four and five percent. It was not as distorted a picture as most believe. There are 102 Garcias listed on the Vietnam Wall. About 14 percent of the names on the wall are of black men at a time when the US population was about 11

percent black. It may be better stated that wealth had an advantage over poverty then any other factor, if you could afford to go to college, get a Master Degree, go to Law or Medical School you could avoid Vietnam. If you were wealthy, a slot in the National Guard could be found.

the atomic bomb being dropped by the United States on Hiroshima

Death of Roosevelt.

That there were communists working inside high levels of Government (including the State Department, the United States Air Force, and United States Army), and there were individuals working for the Communist Party or sympathetic to the Communist Party in all levels of government (The White House, Congress, and the Press). His accusations led the Second Red Scare to occur in the United States from his Wheeling West Virginia speech in 1951, to the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 and subsequent censure by the United States Senate.

Whether anything is good or bad is a matter of opinion.

If you want to argue that it was good, you might point out that South Korea has become a prosperous democracy while North Korea remains a tyrannical dictatorship, so therefore it was right of the United Nations to step in and prevent South Korea from falling to the communists.

If you want to argue that it was bad, you might point out that there was little difference between the governments of the two Koreas at the time of the war and it makes little sense to justify a war based on how things turned out decades later.

Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland were handed over to the Soviet Union by Adolf Hitler while their alliance was in effect. Stalin released those nations at the end of the war but kept the nations in Eastern Europe.

The three issues that led to a hard feeling between the Soviet Union and the US were:

-The disagreement by the US when Soviet Union when Stalin asked his Allies to attack Germany from the wast.

-After the war, Soviet Union demanded Germany to pay $20 billion in war damages, but the US resisted with this demand.

-When Soviet Union began to take over the eastern Europe and spread the communism, US was very angry and afraid with the Soviet aggression.