what is cold war!!??

Answer 1

The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the mid 1940s until the early 1990s. The main U.S. allies were Western Europe, Japan and Canada. The main Soviet allies were Eastern Europe and (until the Sino-Soviet split) China. Throughout the period, the rivalry between the two superpowers was played out in multiple arenas: military coalitions; ideology, psychology, and espionage; military, industrial, and technological developments; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.

In 1947 the term "Cold War" was introduced by Americans Bernard Baruch and Walter Lippmann to describe emerging tensions between the two former wartime allies.[1] There never was a direct military engagement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but there was a half-century of military buildup, and political battles for support around the world, including significant involvement of allied and satellite nations.

Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union had been wartime allies against Nazi Germany, the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of the Second World War. Over the following decades, the Cold War spread outside Europe to every region of the world, as the U.S. sought the "containment" of communism and forged numerous alliances to this end, particularly in Western Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.

There were repeated crises that threatened to escalate into world wars but never did, notably the Korean War (1950-1953), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), and the Vietnam War (1964-1975). There were also periods when tension was reduced as both sides sought détente. Direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for massive destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons.

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.

Answer 2

It seems increadable that someone woudl not know what the Cold War was. Between 1947 and 1989 the USSR and the USA were diametrically opposed. Each had nuclear weapons, yet neither woudl be able to use them. To have used even one woudl have ment total nuclear innialiation for the world. Since the breakup of the USSR into seeral smaller countries, the Cold War has ended. For those of us who lived through even a part of it, it is always just benigth the surface.

Answer 3

The cold war was a reasoning used by the U.S.A. to develop a military industrial complex as warned by Late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, former head of the Joint chiefs of staff.
And designer of the Normandy invasion. WW-2
They go to war for profit and to steal your taxed money.
Now they go to war for oil as it's worth more than,
U.S.A. paper money that is no longer backed by silver or gold.
He Prisident Eisenhower said we cannot allow our country to become controlled by the Military Industrial complex like the Japanese country did.. Yet for profit,
We became and still are the largest weapons producer for profits we taxed the U.S.of A. tax-payers for the subterfuge.
Then Vietnam another reason to steal the Americans peoples social security fund blind for the Vietnam war.
It's all about money power and control.
As President Richard Milhouse Nixon said " M.A.D."
Nuclear war is Mutually assured destruction, that's why we never had a nuke war with the U.S.S.R. (Russia)
There isn't anything honorable about war don't kid yourself.

Answer 4

A war without the use of weapons... during the Cold was the U.S. and the Soviet Union got into a spending war, until the USSR went bankrupt!!

Answer 5

The chilly conflict is misnamed. there are various distinctive recommendations of what a chilly conflict is which contain a conflict of words, many small skirmishes international extensive, a conflict that no-one observed, no direct scuffling with between 2 large powers. in fact, extra people died in the chilly conflict than in WW1 and WW2. additionally, the chilly conflict has no fixed beginning up, midsection or end. It in basic terms seems to rumble on. For international places the place armies and enormous scale advertising of armaments are mandatory for the financial device, the chilly conflict is colossal corporation (pointing out no names yet rearrange SUA!)

Answer 6

hostile but nonviolent Communist-Western relations: the hostile yet nonviolent relations between the former Soviet Union and the United States, and their respective allies, from around 1946 to 1989

Answer 7

The battle for Stalingrad in January.

Answer 8

Perhaps it is like cold shoulders, like not talking to each other except more extreme.

Answer 9

Come to Brooklyn!

Answer 10

Ask the makers of ROBITUSSIN.