What can you say about the Cold War in two to four sentences?

Answer 1

1. The Cold War was fuelled by propaganda, undercover activity by intelligence agencies, and economic sanctions ; and was intensified by signs of conflict anywhere in the world.

2. The term `Cold War´ was first used by Bernard Baruch , advisor to US President Truman, in a speech made in April 1947. He spoke about Truman's intent for the USA to ` support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

3. ´After the WWII the USA was eager to have all of Europe open to Western economic interests, while the USSR, afraid of being encircled and attacked by its former allies, saw Eastern Europe as its own sphere of influence and, in the case of Germany, was looking to extract reparations.

4. The growing divisions between the capitalist and communist worlds were reinforced by the creation of military alliances : the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was set up in the West in 1949, and was followed in the East by the Warsaw Pact in 1955.

Answer 2

1945- WWII ends and the allies carve up Germany. The USSR take over most of Eastern Europe and East Berlin
1950-1953 and the 1960's and part of the 1970's-Cold War is expanded in Korea and Vietnam
1970's SALT I and II take place
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis - Kennedy calls Khruschev bluff
1980's Reagan use SDI and eventually bankrupt the USSR
1987 Historical agreement signed by Reagan and Gorbachev
1980's Poland - Solidarity leads Poland away from Communism; Peristroika in USSR
1961-1989 Berlin Wall existed
end of 1991 USSR is dissolved Russia becomes a republic and the Cold War is over.

Answer 3

Two sentences. America was implanting its containment policy against communist countries. The war was part of an ongoing effort by the United States to retain control of Europe and stop the Atomic Bomb threat by deterrence and Mutually Assured Destruction.

Answer 4

The battle of ideologies launched for the supreme right to oversee the hegemonic rule over the whole world. It is ironic that both sought democratic liberation, that is on one hand a liberation from physical necessity leading towards pragmatic pursuit of happiness defined through material security, whereas the other part fought for a liberation, or, perhaps it should be precise to say, detachment and negation from the material indulgence.

Some say that Rock'n Roll contributed to the gradual decline of the socialist state. Hence, to some degree it can be argued that a failure to oversee the popular trend in one's revolutionary state might have to led to the decay of ideas and beliefs.

Answer 5

America thought it was unfair the Russians kept all the Eastern block countries after the war. But the Russians says they were just protecting them. So America lead an alliance of their own and they called it NATO. Everybody started building bombs, cause they couldn't let the other guy have more bombs than they had.

Answer 6

It was a "war" of idealism: democracy and freedom versus communism and repression. nuclear superiority was a veiled threat never intended to be used, as the physical war would likely have obliterated much of the planet. the removal of the berlin wall became symbolic of the victory over totalitarian rule and a move toward greater human rights and human freedom in eastern bloc countries.

Answer 7

It was a time for proxy wars fought in third world countries, bomb building and general paranoia.

(one sentence! how's that?)