Cold War Dbq

Luis Diaz

APUSH

03-13-18

PD.5

Short Answer Rewrite

Why might someone make the case that the Cold War was a success?

The Cold War reached its peak in 1948–53. In this period the Soviets unsuccessfully blockaded the Western-held sectors of West Berlin (1948–49); the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a unified military command to resist the Soviet presence in Europe (1949); the Soviets exploded their first atomic warhead (1949), thus ending the American monopoly on the atomic bomb; the Chinese communists came to power in mainland China (1949); and the Soviet-supported communist government of North Korea invaded U.S.-supported South Korea in 1950, setting off an indecisive Korean War that

A unified military organization among the Soviet-bloc countries, the Warsaw Pact, was formed in 1955; and West Germany was admitted into NATO that same year. Another intense stage of the Cold War was in 1958–62. The United States and the Soviet Union began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in 1962 the Soviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on U.S. cities. This sparked the Cuban missile crisis (1962), a confrontation that brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other’s retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned above ground nuclear weapons testing. But the crisis also hardened the Soviets’ determination never again to be humiliated by their military inferiority, and they

The Cold War was a war fought from 1945 to 1990. The war did not end until the Berlin Wall was destroyed. The Berlin Wall was essentially a wall that divided Germany into two parts : the East and the West. The United States Entered the war because they were not in favor for Russia's communist beliefs. Russia wanted to spread its communism throughout Asia and the western countries of Europe. Some could say that the wra was a success because communism was not spread at the end the Soviet Union lost the war. After the war was ended Germany became one whole country again. For the United States the war was successful because communism did not spread to countries that were of interest to the United States. Countries like Japan, Mexico, and some countries from the middle east were being looked at by the American government and they did not want communism to spread. Because the Soviet Union lost it broke up into very small republicans and agreed with the terms of the war. The war was a success because of all these reasons. In the eyes of the Soviets the war was not a success. The war was a way to spread it’s belief and to hopefully gain more territory. During the war the making of the Berlin Wall was a success but it wasn't until 1989 when the wall was broken down. All in all the war was a