Can somebody please give me a sumary of the cold war: its causes, effects, main events... THANK YOU SO MUCH!?

Question

please :)

I'd really apreciate it if you could talk about detente as well :)

Answer 1

Look up these topics:

Yalta Conference (End of World War II)
East and West Berlin
North and South Korea
Spy plane crashes in USSR during Eisenhower's administration . Forget the name of the plane.
Communism
USSR and United States as world powers
Cuban Missile Crisis
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT) (SALTII) 1970's between US and USSR
Churchill's speech about an iron curtain fallen upon Europe (late 1940's-early1950's) Winston Churchill Great Britain Prime Minister.
Mikhail Gobrachev (Soviet Priemere 1980's)
The collapse of the Berlin Wall
Glasnost (spelling is wrong) This occured during Gobrachev's rule
Soviet Union republics (states) become independent countries
Look all these events up on the internet and encyclopedia.

Answer 2

The term "cold war" was coined by Bernard Baruch during a Congressional debate in 1947. In theory a cold war is a geopolitical confrontation between two sovereign powers or groups of powers using all available resources short of armed combat. It would require a miracle to achieve this in practice. One way or another, people do get shot. Some unusual kinds of patience and restraint keep a cold war from becoming a hot one. A gaming technique of daring known as "brinksmanship" (used, notably, in the Cuban Missile Crisis) has produced some hair-raising close encounters with Doomsday.

In the sense intended here the Cold War (capitalized) refers to the confrontation between the Soviet Union and its allies and client states and the United States of America and its allies and client states. The Encyclopaedia Britannica conveys the impression (1) that the allies and client states of the Soviet Union were so by duress and (2) that the allies and client states of the Western Bloc were so willingly. Under rigorous analysis neither (1) nor (2) may be strictly true, but may be accepted as a sort of rule-of-thumb. Theatre: global.

It may be said that the Cold War had its germ-plasm in the displeasure of Stalin at the slow pace of Western support during the latter phases of World War II, and crystalized into anger shortly after the war, in the matter of the Western Allies proposed treatment of Germany and the proposed political structure of Poland. The time-span of the Cold War lies between August 14th, 1945 ("VJ Day") and December 26th, 1991, which saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Assuming that the Communist Party does not return to power in Russia, there will likely be no
Cold War II.

Answer 3

The Cold War was the period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. 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, including the space race; costly defense spending; a massive conventional and nuclear arms race; and many proxy wars.

The challenge of Nazi Germany forced the Western Allies and the Soviets into wartime cooperation. However, from the start, the alliance between the Soviet Union, the world's first Communist state, and the United States, the world's leading economic power, was marked by mutual distrust and ideological tension.

The Wisconsin school of interpretation argues that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were economic rivals that made them natural adversaries regardless of ideology.[2] Walter LaFeber argues the U.S. and Imperial Russia became rivals by 1900 over the development of Manchuria. Russia, unable to compete industrially with the U.S., sought to close off parts of East Asia to trade with other colonial powers. Meanwhile, the U.S demanded open competition for markets. [3]

Answer 4

The Warsaw Pact sealed the fate of those countries which the USSR has marched through during WWII. Signed in Warsaw, Poland (1955), comprising Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Roumania, and the U.S.S.R. Hungary was the first to rise up against the People's Republic of Hungary and its Moscow imposed policies in October, 1956. Brutally suppressed with Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest. On a personal note, that event set me on my course through life. I was 13 and the plight of the refugees resulted in my working on behalf of refugees, whilst at Uni (Palestinians), in Hong Kong (1979/80) and in my country of residence. Work I am still doing today. Albania was always more Maoist than Soviet aligned, so it's strange that the present day Albania was the first country to accept Chinese Muslims (Uighur) who had somehow managed to end up in Guantanamo.

Answer 5

And what exactly did your last slave die of?

Do your own damn homework. Sounds like you haven't paid attention in class for about a month.