2007-11-05 08:11:35 · 15 answers · asked by Daniel B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
For those who said no.why? Korea and Nam were both a result both directly and indirectly of the cold war. And it also depended on what agency with in the US Gov you worked for.
2007-11-05 08:27:07 · answer #1 · answered by 2nd AD/ 4th ID 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When it comes to just the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cold War was not violent. However, in their zeal to become the ultimate superpower in the world, both nations lent their support to Third World countries that were struggling to find independence from the colonial powers and from the corrupt governments that were in place. The Cold War was violent in the countries such as Cuba, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Argentina, Chile, among others. In Nicaragua alone the fight between democracy and communism led to fatalities that, compared to the population, were more than the US had felt in its Civil War, both World Wars, Korean, and Vietnam War combined. Therefore, the Cold War was a violent war outside the superpowers of the world at that time.
2007-11-08 06:11:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the people in Korea, Viet-Nam, Cuba, El Salvador, Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq...and on and on and on...The Cold War was a chess match between East and West and these countries were the pawns.
The Cold War also gave many Americans the notion that war is something that other people fight for you...a short-sidedness that we still suffer today in the Middle East.
2007-11-05 08:27:41 · answer #3 · answered by a_man_could_stand 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact is that there was a lot of violence going on during the cold war. There were a lot of small proxy clashes between the communists and the US. While there was never a recognized military conflict between the parties, you better believe there was a lot going on that was undeclared. I served in the military during the cold war, and believe me, sometimes it was a lot HOTTER than anyone ever wanted the public to know.
2007-11-05 08:57:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you refer to the strictly USA/USSR parts of it, no. we were just constantly in each other's face ready to BE violent. That part was summed up rather bitingly in the movie "Red October" in the line, "No battles, just casualties." Ask the crews of the SSN's Thresher or Scorpion if it was violent when their ships met their untimely ends, for instance. Consider every military serviceman's death during that period not atributable to off-duty stupidity to be a casualty of that war. There were plenty of PROXY battles or wars that are viewed as being outside of, or peripheral to the cold war, however, as other respondants have pointed out. It WAS violent, just not directly.
2007-11-05 10:59:24 · answer #5 · answered by Stephen H 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there was no war going on during the cold war.
2007-11-05 08:19:03 · answer #6 · answered by krennao 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no actual fighting occured during the cold war, it was just a standoff between the major powers at that time which were the Soviet Union and the United States
2007-11-05 15:54:28 · answer #7 · answered by Eagle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No ..there was no fighting....but some consider wars in Vietnam , Korea or even in Afghanistan in 80s are part of that war ....
2007-11-05 08:49:38 · answer #8 · answered by Peiper 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None, it was pretty much an arms race and period of political games between the USA and the former USSR from the mid 40's to the early 90's.
2007-11-05 09:14:39 · answer #9 · answered by erehwon 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no the cold war had no fighting it was just russia and the usa competing on many different levels of their economy.
2007-11-05 08:16:44 · answer #10 · answered by pyrokleptomanic08 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋