Cold War Question !?!?

Question

How did the Cold War begin adn what "weapons" were used to fight this war?

Answer 1

It began when the Soviet Union built the Berlin Wall. Winston Churchill's famous term about an "iron curtain having descended across Europe" set the stage for 40+years of calculated brinkmanship between the West and the Communists. The "weapons" included propaganda, espionage, murder, theft, international sporting event boycotting and untold millions of dollars spent to develop outer space capabilities and other scientific endeavors. It was chess at its most lethal level. Untold numbers of lives were forever altered, some for the best, and an incredible number were outright killed, disinherited or sent to the gulags. At its zenith, there was enough military power to destroy the entire world many times over, and we came close more than once. It really was a terribly fascinating period that, hopefully, should serve as an abject lesson forever.

Answer 2

A Cold War is literally a war without direct 'fighting' as you'd typically think - the weapons were diplomatic influence, economics and such.

It could have started - the tensions - as early as the turn of the 20th century, but is mostly accepted to have begun around the time of the Russian Revolution (1917) - the start of the Capitalist/Communist conflict which was briefly put aside during WW2. The United States did not recognise the Soviet Union after the Revolution until 1933.

The start of the actual 'Cold War' might be put around 1947, the time of the Truman Doctrine.

Answer 3

the cold war began when the USA and Russia couldn't agree on how to demilitarize east and west germany after WW2. The americans thought they had more rights to the defeated Germany then Russia did, and vice versa. So they declared a line(Berlin Wall) and then went their seperate ways. The Russian government made some pretty mean remarks towards america in the years following the war. This made america restless and we started to build up arms and technology in case Russia decided to become a threat. Russia did the same.
The cold war was never actually fought, hence the name cold war. There were no weapons "used" against eachother, but several threats were made to use them(cuban missle crisis). Further developments were made in nuclear technology and the means of delivering them(attack subs). Neither side(america or russia) saw themselves at a supreme advantage in starting the war, so it never started.

Answer 4

The cold war started just before the end of the second world war (WW11). When two of the allies started to divide up Europe. Lies and propaganda and threats were the weapons. These weapons were wielded with equal efficiency by both sides and the winner built more weapons and spent more money and finally bankrupted the other side which tried to keep up with the spending.

Answer 5

When the world war two ended United States and USSR wanted to control Germany. They divided the country and Stalin kept searching for Hitler even though he knew through his intelligence that he had died.

It was Germany the main reason for the cold war and even after USSR and USA quit control over the country they kept supporting one side of any divided nation. Korea, Vietnam and they had always played proxy wars.

USSR is communist and wanted communist governments in all places

USA is a republic and wanted democracy.

This is the major reason too. When a country embraced communist with Russian help the United States supported the opposing group and vise verse

Answer 6

well.. that's pretty difficult and one can not explain it that easily..
first of all, after World War II, the states regrouped around USSR * these were mainly the eastern states in which USSR implemented a communist regime, like Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland, Eastern Germany and the capitalist states that regrouped around USA which was back then the most powerful state... so there was a bi polarization in the economic relations.. and a competition began.. because USA and USSR wanted to prove that their system was the most efficient.. this competition took place on various aspects, such as scientific discoveries, the conquest of the outer space.. the most tense moment was the crisis in 1962

Answer 7

Read what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_war