The Cold War was a tension between the Soviet Union and the United States from 1945 to 1990. After WWII, the U.S. wasn’t happy with the USSR for signing a nonaggression pact with Germany and the USSR wasn’t happy with the U.S. for not invading Germany earlier. The Cold War got its name because the United States and the Soviet Union were afraid of fighting each other directly, so they fought indirectly. The events of the Cold War, including the Vietnam War, the Berlin Wall, and the Space Race impacted the world and connect to a variety of historical events.
The Korean War can be compared to the Vietnam War because of the attempts to fight communism, lack of victory, and the unpopularity in the United States. The Korean War and the Vietnam War
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and USSR maintained governments on each side, separating their differences. The same is happening today with North and South Korea. According to an article by United States History the eastern side of the Berlin Wall was controlled by the Soviet Union and the western side was controlled by the United States and the allies. Similar to 1950, Study.com says North Korea was supported by the USSR and South Korea was supported by the U.S. which leads to the same governments in the Koreas today. The Berlin Wall compares to the DMZ of North Korea because they were both built out of communism, are dangerous to cross, and at some point involved the United States and the Soviet …show more content…
History.com says the USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik, on October 4th, 1957. This started the Space Race because the U.S. and USSR always wanted to be ahead of each other. In 1958, the US launched Explorer I and created NASA. In the following year the USSR launched the first space probe to hit the moon. The American Museum of Natural History says that in 1949, the United States was the only country with nuclear weapons. That soon changed when the Soviet Union came out with an atomic bomb. This started the arms race. In 1952, the US created a Hydrogen Bomb, so in 1953 the Soviet Union came out with its own version. Each race started because the US and the USSR always wanted to be ahead of each
After World War II, the Cold War created tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States leading to extreme national pride and competition, culminating in the space race which began with the launch of Sputnik 1. In World War II many new weapons were created to kill more people with more efficiency. The most notable of these was the atomic bomb. As American troops closed in on Japan at the end of the war, they realized that taking the small island nation would be nearly impossible. The Japanese soldiers had shown their willingness to die for their country when kamikaze pilots flew into American ships. As a result, President Truman approved the use of the...
With th... ... middle of paper ... ..., the Vietnamese also differed from the Koreans in the sense that most of the South Vietnamese utilized "strategic hamlet" in order to round up people who might be opposers to the regime. By doing this, any uprisings were stopped and effectively neutralized. Both the Korean and the Vietnamese wars had several things in common in terms of the practices and strategies used during these conflicts as well as some aspects which were distinct. The two communist foes in the wars developed guerrilla type warfare and utilized it in a very effective matter against their enemy which lead to even more pressure from both sides of the conflict.
Berlin and West Berlin but was located deep inside the Soviet controlled zone. Then, in 1961, the Soviet government built a wall which separated the two halves of the city. It was not until the 1980s that cold war tensions eased. through the glasnost (openness to public debate) policies of soviet leaders. Mikhail Gorbachev.
The Cold War was a period in history right after WWII ended and it ended in 1991, when the USSR broke apart. The conflict was between two types of governments: the communists and the capitalism (democrats). The USSR represented the communist side, while the U.S. represented the democrats. Both countries had nuclear weapons and did not want to fight each other directly because they didn’t want a Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), so they fought through other countries, by Proxy Wars. The global tensions in Cold War affected a few countries in a couple of regions, for example Central America. The involvement of the United States aided Nicaragua economically, militarily, and politically.
After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. So they each hired the top rocket scientists from Germany to help with their research. After they hired them both sides were making a lot of progress. The Space Race began in 1955 when the Americans announced that they would start launching satellites into orbit. The Soviets took the US announcement as a challenge and established a group whose goal was to beat the US in putting a satellite into orbit. Even though the United States started the competition the Soviets still won because they launched the first successful satellite into orbit, put a dog into outer space and also put the first man into outer space. Some might say that the United States won because they put the first man on the moon, which was a huge feat made by the Americans. So for winning many missions against the U.S. the Soviets won the Space Race.
The USA built and tested a new type of weapon called the Hydrogen Bomb. The Soviet Union became concerned as to whether the USA would actually use such a weapon. Because of this, the Soviet Union began designing a similar weapon. The war became an argument about who had the biggest weapon. However, neither country fired a single missile thus making this a cold war instead of a hot war (200 Years).
Between 1961 and today, the Berlin Wall saw many changes, and so did the people that it entrapped. Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall, borders between East and West Germany were closed in 1952 because of tension between Communists and Democratic superpowers and the only open crossing left in Berlin. West Germany was blockaded by the Soviets and only kept alive because of air drops made by the Western Allies (Time). The Soviets had to do something about the mass amount of people leaving Soviet East Berlin for West Berlin, and the non-communist world. The most visible aspect of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall. Before the wall was constructed, East and West Germans could travel freely between the two states.
Many people took this into consideration and in 1957 the Space Race began. However, the Cold War began in 1945 and caused a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1957 the launching of Sputnik, by the Soviet Union, initiated the beginning of the “race to space” (NASA). During this time period, it was the peak of the Cold War. The United States got involved in the Space Race in fear that the Soviet Union had better technology.
The Cold War was a period of conflict for world dominance between the US and USSR which endured from 1947 to 1991. It was a power struggle after WW2 which both sides attempted to dominate their ideology to the world. This conflict divided the world into two camps.. As a capitalist, democratic and liberal nation, the US promoted free elections and the free market. USSR as a communist and totalitarian state promoted to providing security of her borders and political dominance of the socialist party.
The Cold War was a war based on political policy, weapons of mass destruction, and an attempt to keep world peace during a time of turmoil. It also sparked a battle between capitalism and free trade (United States) versus socialist and communist (Soviet Union) ideas. Thankfully, a “cold war” means that there were no direct conflicts or battles, however, there were plenty of side conflicts between allies of the two major powers (United States & Soviet Union). The main takeaways from the Cold War conflict were; “Who started the Cold War?” and the impacts of life on the United States and the Soviet Union.
From 1948 to the 1960’s, The Cold War’s most central geopolitical location, was not in Washington, Moscow, Cuba or outer space but in fact in the city of Berlin, with a wall almost one hundred miles long acting as the key symbol of the Cold War, Jeremy Isaacs maintained in his online article that "The Wall came to symbolize Europe’s division, at the heart of the Cold War." The Cold War developed after the most destructive and deadly war, in which the two greatest super powers and victorious allies; United States and the Soviet Union, became enemies. Following the victory over Hitler’s Germany, the Soviets and the United States began a power struggle over Europe. In the global clash between American capitalism and Soviet Communism, both sought
The Cold War was a war that should not have been fought, as there was truly no reason to do so. It was a war of ideology, and it killed millions of people for no reason/result. After WW2, the US and USSR had growing tensions, due to the bombing of Japan, and the political diversity between the two countries. There was no solution to the tension that the US and USSR faced, which ultimately led them to implode. The battle between communism and anti communism really set the stage for this entire thing.
The Cold War was a time between 1947 to 1991 in which tensions between two of the largest superpowers of the world were at an all time high: United State of America and the Soviet Union. The war never had a true battlefield between the two, but traces of each the superpowers could be found in many of the wars at the time directly or indirectly like: the Vietnam War, Korean War, and etc. Though the feud didn’t always happen on the battleground. The Soviet Union and United States faced off in expanding their power of their technology and economy at the time, which led to events like the Space Race, Nuclear Arms Race, and even globalization in the countries. Some of the new technologies like computers, space shuffles, and satellites were just some
In 1945 when America was able to create and use the atomic bomb, the USSR felt insecure and was determined to create one of its own. After that, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) were built up into huge arsenals by the USSR and America. Both sides soon had the power to wipe out the not only the enemy, but the rest of the world as well. The United States exploded a hydrogen bomb in 1952, and the Soviets tested on year later. Both nations rushed to develop missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
By another account, the Cold War began in 1917 with the Bolshevik Revolution, and ended in 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, having been a conflict between Bolshevism and Democracy. The Cold War got its name because both sides were afraid of fighting each other in such a “hot war”, nuclear weapons might destroy everything. So, instead, they fought each other indirectly. They played havoc with conflicts in different parts of the world. They used words as weapons.