The Cold War?

Question

Was the Cold War physical? I don't exactly understand what it was about. Details please.

Answer 1

Icy relations between NATO and the Warsaw Pact? Never directly confronatational, mostly passive aggressive and alot of proxy fighting in the third world. Heh. We and the Communists used the Third World for a chess board. The Third World is having a hard time getting over it, too.

Answer 2

The cold war was overtly not physical, but people died just the same. It was a power struggle between the USA and the USSR
as the Russians then called their country, it was ruled by totalitarian Communists. Spies were dying on both sides, the worst factor of the Cold War was East Germany and West Germany, East Germans fled to the West by the thousands, the only idea the Communists in East Germany , who were under the Soviets Control, could think of was to build a Wall. Many People were shot trying to flee. There was also a revolt by the East Germans on 17.June, where the Soviets and the East German Communists murdered many Germans. It is an observed holiday in Germany in remembrance of the victims. The Vietnam Conflict can not be considered part of the Cold War.

Answer 3

The Cold War was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 31, 1991.

The global contest was popularly named The Cold War because open hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage, the space race, and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation,

Answer 4

Tensions between the U.S. and Russia were tense after world war 2. The Russians were trying to expand their dominance into other nations and we were trying to stop them,but neither country wanted another shooting war. For one reason,we had developed atomic weapons and would have had to use them-The Russians still had a large military force,but no nukes. The shooting part of the "cold war" took place in countries like Korea and Viet-Nam and a few others that didn't make it into the news.
The Russians finally developed nucular weapons of their own and started building up massive amounts of missles and bombs.
The U.S. had to build up its nuke weapons to counter the Russians. The Russians even deployed missles to Cuba in the 60's during JFK's presidency and almost took both countries to war.
The cold war ended when the U.S. and Russian govts. realized the stupidity of it all(plus the Russians went broke before us) and started talking about reducing and eliminating the weapons.
However the threat still exists because neither contry has totaly disarmed and a lot of plutonium is unaccounted for and other nations have been building up nuke weapons or trying to develop them on their own dispite signing a non proliferation treaty.

Answer 5

I assume you are talking about the NATO and USSR countries? Yes it did get "Physical" during Vietnam when the USSR backed the NVA and the US backed the ARVN. it also got "Physical during the "Berlin crisis". The fact it was classified as a "Cold War" is because the USA and the USSR never directly came to blows on the battlefield with each other. But make no mistake, both sides lost many good soldiers during this conflict.

Answer 6

Government needs a fear factor to exist thus the US Government duped the voters into believing the Russians were just like Saddam. WMD big time and they were going to use them against us. The Russians were told the same thing and both Governments bilked billions from their citizens for defense. Well they never went to war but the money got spent and Russia went broke first so we won I guess you could say. The voters got screwed though so maybe we lost.

Answer 7

Korea and Vietnam were the hot points in the cold war. What it was about was Communism versus capitalism.