Who Won the Cold War?

Question

All answers are acceptable except for no one.
(people, countries, ideologies, etc.)

Answer 1

Tasty Freeze........

Answer 2

The correct answer is not acceptable?

The truth is that NO ONE won the cold war. The biggest losers were places like Korea and Viet Nam, which became surrogate battlefields between the two sides in the cold war. They lost millions of their citizens and suffered years of war over a battle of ideologies.
Though the Soviet Union collapsed, many historians argue that such a collapse was inevitable given their ineffiencies in governing, and had nothing to do with the US military buildup. And the fact that China (the other major communist power) is not only still around but thriving, shows that the US most certainly did NOT win the cold war. What the US did was run up huge deficits that we're still paying off to fund a military weapon buildup that was never used -- thousands of old nuclear warheads now need to be disposed of as dangerous material, and we have no place to put them.

Nobody won. It was a huge waste of world financial resources and resulted in a huge loss of life, all for nothing...as the USSR would have collapsed anyway. Stupid fear and paranoia, that's all.

Answer 3

neither the U.S. or Russia (though at the time it was either called the Soviet Union or the USSR) won the Cold War. I believe that the tensions that existed which made up the Cold War dissipated or were resolved somehow.

Answer 4

Technically, I would say that the U.S "won" the Cold War as the U.S.S.R was toppled and the communist government replaced. Eventually it just came down to the fact that the U.S more easily afford to continue the Arms Race and the American people were far more willing to support their government than the Soviets civillians were.

Answer 5

Capitalism

Answer 6

The Penguins.

Answer 7

Iceland

Answer 8

The Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s following the launching of Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programs, perestroika and glasnost. The Soviet Union consequently ceded power over Eastern Europe and was dissolved in 1991.
By the early 1980s, the Soviet armed forces were the largest in the world by many measures—in terms of the numbers and types of weapons they possessed, in the number of troops in their ranks, and in the sheer size of their military-industrial base.[20] However, the quantitative advantages held by the Soviet military often concealed areas where the Eastern bloc dramatically lagged behind the West. This led many U.S. observers to vastly overestimate Soviet power. (LaFeber 2002, 340)

By the late years of the Cold War, Moscow had built up a military that consumed as much as twenty-five percent of the Soviet Union's gross national product at the expense of consumer goods and investment in civilian sectors. (LaFeber 2002, 332) But the size of the Soviet armed forces was not necessarily the result of a simple action-reaction arms race with the United States. (Odom) Instead, Soviet spending on the arms race and other Cold War commitments can be understood as both a cause and effect of the deep-seated structural problems in the Soviet system, which accumulated at least a decade of economic stagnation during the Brezhnev years. (see Economy of the Soviet Union) Soviet investment in the defense sector was not necessarily driven by military necessity, but in large part by the interests of massive party and state bureaucracies dependent on the sector for their own power and privileges. (LaFeber 2002, 335)

By the time Mikhail Gorbachev had ascended to power in 1985, the Soviets suffered from an economic growth rate close to zero percent, combined with a sharp fall in hard currency earnings as a result of the downward slide in world oil prices in the 1980s. (LaFaber 2002, 331-333) (Petroleum exports made up around 60 percent of the Soviet Union's total export earnings.) (LaFeber 2002, 332) To restructure the Soviet economy before it collapsed, Gorbachev announced an agenda of rapid reform. (see perestroika and glasnost) Reform required Gorbachev to redirect the country's resources from costly Cold War military commitments to more profitable areas in the civilian sector. As a result, Gorbachev offered major concessions to the United States on the levels of conventional forces, nuclear weapons, and policy in Eastern Europe.

Answer 9

Defense contractors.

Answer 10

Think about it. Can you possibly reason that the U.S. lost?

I really can't. You can answer this question by simple process of elimination.