what is cold war?

Answer 1

Cold war is basically war without physical violence. It usually peaks upon threats, but never escalates into actual combat.

Answer 2

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 3

The Cold War started directly after the end of World War 11, and its main players were the US versus USSR. It was a war that lasted until the end of the Soviet Union, and consisted of intelligence and Nuclear Power rivalry. In other words, the building of armament and knowledge to make one nation seem more ready than the other in defending its interests in case of a physical war. It also caused the Space War where the Russians were the first to go around the world, and the Americans the first to touch the moon. Russia in that time was called the "Axis of Evil." It ended during the Reagan administration, and during the Gorbachev period in USSR when they intruduced perestroika. There was also a Chess style game using countries as a way of influence, the US paying and later helping the Dictatorship in Vietnam that was one of our biggest mistakes in our history, and also made the USSR enter into Afghanistan to try to make it Communist The countries would fund the parties they thought would benefit them in other countries, as the US did in South America and USSR did in Cuba (and lead also to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Bay of Pigs). During this war, the American public became paranoid about Communism and thus Senator Mccarthy made the Black list, in which many American actors and directors were 'black listed, and black balled' because they had voted communist. For more information you should read wikipedia.org, or google it, there are enough cites to explain what this war was about. "Democrats vs Reds, or the Communists" War.

Answer 4

"Cold War" Came from George Orwell 's "You and the Atomic Bomb." First published October 19, 1945 in the London Tribune. It was a period of conflict between two super powers the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies after WWII until the late 1980's and early 1990's. It was basically a military, technological development, space race, nuclear weapons race to see who could get the upper hand over the other. Both of these two super powers continuously tried to one up the other with military build up, and political battles for support of allies around the world. This was largely caused because the US and the Soviet Union had different opinions on how to reconstruct the world after WWII. The US sought to contain communism which threatened many times to start WWIII. This ended when President Ronald Regan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev launched reform programs to get rid of Nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Answer 5

It is the constant checking and probing of the other country's military forces to determine their intent and rediness for a hot (shooting )war. And it is the constant buildup of weapons and tactics, as well as the attempt to influence neutral countries to take your side on political issues important to the world. An arms race is a kinda cold war.

Answer 6

Posturing. Beating on your chest like the Great Apes. My bomb is bigger than yours.

While on a tour of the East/West German border we were flanked on both sides by German Border Guards. Eventually a couple guy's showed on the East side.

We were watching them watching us and watching them watch the West Germans watch us. All being done with them behind a 15m fence with anti tank barriers, anti tank mines, anti personnel mines behind it. On the fence were claymore like shaped anti personnel mines. Those were staggered high, middle and low down the line. The old Prussian border stones were painted yellow on one side to mark their half.

They had 9 Divisions of Armor, we had 2 and a crap load of tactical nukes.

It still is like that on the North/South Korean border

Posturing!

SSG US Army 73-82

Answer 7

The cold war was a war against communism, namely the former U.S.S.R.

Answer 8

War that takes place in the Arctic plains or on the Arctic circle at high latititude (where it's cold) -- Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greenland, even Canada (certain parts of it, not all of it).

Answer 9

You can also go here:

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

Answer 10

to me it's a preenin session