who started the cold war?

Question

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The US started a masive buildup of nukes when the soviets had only a few. We were lied to by our government in the 50s that the ussr had hundreds of nukes aimed at our cities when they had only 4 on standby.

look at the year 1963 when the government had us building bomb shelters in our basements. these are the same people pushing this war on terror. liars

1963 the soviets had a minute fraction of our weapons

Answer 1

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.
There was never a direct military engagement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but there was half a century of military buildup as well as political battles for support around the world, including significant involvement of allied and satellite nations in proxy wars. Although the U.S. and the Soviet Union had been allied against Nazi Germany, the two sides differed on how to reconstruct the postwar world even before the end of World War II. 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 Berlin Blockade (1948-1949), the Korean War (1950-1953), the Vietnam War (1959-1975), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), and the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). There were also periods when tension was reduced as both sides sought détente. Direct military attacks on adversaries were deterred by the potential for mutual assured destruction using deliverable nuclear weapons.
The Cold War drew to a close in the late 1980s following Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's summit conferences with United States President Ronald Reagan, as well as Gorbachev's launching of reform programs: perestroika and glasnost. The Soviet Union consequently ceded power over Eastern Europe and was dissolved in 1991.

Answer 2

Whoever feed you the disinformation on the Soviets with just 4 missiles on standby??

The Soviet arsenal carried hundreds of weapons of different sizes.

The Cold War was not started as such, it was not really a war, it was a "watch and wait" situation with both side continually spying on one another.

2 hours ago:
look at the year 1963 when the government had us building bomb shelters in our basements. these are the same people pushing this war on terror. liars

Full of crap, the same people who were in the Government in 1963 are not here today (40 years later).

2 hours ago:
1963 the soviets had a minute fraction of our weapons

Kindly prove what you claim, if you can!!

You seem to be an anti-US troll.

Answer 3

I beg your pardon pal! The Soviet Union was no better than Nazi Germany. Western Liberal Democracies realized that they screwed up by ignoring the Nazis in the 30s and weren't about to make the same mistake with the reds. If you have a problem with Liberty, go live in Cuba.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

It was only dubbed the cold war because no fighting took place, just a technology race. Technically speaking noone started it, it just became politics. It only "ended" because the Soviet Union collapse.

Answer 6

FDR did cuz he allied with the russians during the second world war knowing they could not be trusted

Answer 7

No one. WW2
Russia got ****** by Germany, America got ****** by Japan, everyone was turning on eachother. They both had completely opposing ideals, they had no reason to trust eachother.

I don't think anyone can blame any one country... it was something that was just going to happen.

Answer 8

You post a question, then post a paragraph of ranting. Reported.

Answer 9

The eskimos

Answer 10

I thought it was Stalin and his wanting to spread Communism to countries that didn't want it...