The Cold War is something that everyone has heard about yet most of us have no clue what the war was really about or why it was started or for that fact who even won the war. The Cold War involved just about the whole world but mainly the United States and Russia. ... Germany is also another place of conflict during the Cold War. ... "The dominoes fall in the Cold War" (CNN). ... In conclusion, no one won nor lost the Cold War. ...

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The Cold War was a major turning point in history. ... The Cold War wasn't declared in the same sense as most wars, rather it progressed over time which led tension to increase between both nations. Many people say that the Cold War really began with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech where he described an "Iron Curtain" which was an imaginary line that separated the East and the West. ... The most significant turning point in the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis, tensions between both sides decreased after both sides realized the risk of starting a nuc...

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It did not only make the two states visible but also the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, which separated Europe. This wall became the most symbolic statue for the Cold War. Nowhere else did the Cold War have a bigger impact on families and friends, who were suddenly separated, than in Berlin. ... The growing animosity and the resulting emergence of the Cold War made a unified Germany impossible. ... The struggle for supremacy without actual fighting, power games between two super powers and the constant danger of a war were given in the Berlin Blockade and did characterize the Cold War in Europ...

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The Cold war was begun by two groups of people the Russians and the Americans. The post war engagement plays a big part in the cold war as well as the Cuban missile crisis. ... The iron curtain made us believe that the war between us two would be unavoidable and such a war like World War Two would might reoccur. ... The deployment of missiles were the major part of the Cold war. ... The Cold war was played by the United States wisely because in a matter of days we strategically we made the Soviet Union disarm without any harm to the United States. ...

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The Start of the Cold War The Cold War was a long drawn out conflict that began in 1947 between the Soviet Union and the United States. ... Truman were huge contributors to the Cold war. ... Churchill (1874-1965) delivered his Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, this speech was notable as the beginning of the Cold War. ... Joseph Stalin was the ruler of the U.S.SR from 1929-1953 and in charge of Soviet policies during the early phase of the Cold War. ... Roosevelt's after his death and became the thirty-third President he two like Stalin and Churchill wa...

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Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. (Cold War) Once allies against Hitler, the Soviet Union and the United States confront each other at the end of WWII. (A Summary of the Cold War) The cold war was only a period of competition between countries. ... The Cold War held military peace in Europe for almost 50 years. ... (The Revolution of 1956) Hungary in 1956 seemed to sum up all that the Cold War stood for. ...

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The Cold War could be referred to as the "battle of ideas" because they never had an actual declared winner. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... The largest bomb uses in the Cold War was about six to ten tons. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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This feud led to the Cold War which didn't really consist of official battles, but more of disagreements and uncompromisable disputes. ... At the end of World War II, Germany was split into 4 zones controlled by the British in the northwest, French in the west, America in the south, and Soviet Union in the east. ... Luckily, the conflict was ended with no war and compromise was achieved quickly. During the Cold War, Americans were terrified of the Soviet Union and left with no knowledge of whether or not the Soviets would attack the US. ... If the Soviets tried to force communist views o...

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The Cold War was really moving, and both sides had begun to show that they were prepared to invest large amounts of money and in some cases to ignore the welfare of their country just to move another counter closer to winning the Cold War! Until now it seemed as though the Cold War has merely been a war of words and threats and "proxy conflicts" but in Berlin they were so close to the outbreak of war. ... Speeches like these did cause nervousness during the Cold War, instead of only distrusting countries indirectly, like in World War II; the West was clearly saying that it did not trust the ...

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In an attempt to prevent another world war, the United Nations was formed in 1945. ... As events of the Cold War evolved, bringing the world close to nuclear war, the shortcomings of the United Nations became of greater concern to the world community. ... As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began. The term Cold War refers to a period when serious political tension existed between the world's two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. ... The Americans had joined both world wars in order to prevent a hostile takeover of Europe. ...

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A lot of suffering began for Germany when World War II commenced, but by the end of the war Germany was in the mists of a disaster waiting to happen. ... At the brink of nuclear war, the United States and the Soviet Union reached a deadlock, but the Berlin Wall remained, representing the remaining Cold War related tension between the two countries. ... The collapse of the Berlin Wall signified the true end of the Cold War and its terrifying era. The Cold War was coming to a gradual end. ... After Gorbachev got his point across to many people, and even many government officials, the end of the ...

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The era from 1946 to 1990 is known as the Cold War, during which the U.S. and other N.A.T.O. countries attempted to contain the rapid spread of communism by the Warsaw Pact nations, including the Soviet Union. ... The Warsaw Pact is, overlooked part of the Cold War, was a key factor in the communist countries and in relations to N.A.T.O. During World War Two, the Soviet Union's Red Army liberated Eastern Europe from Nazi Germany control. ... After the war ended, tensions grew between the Soviet Union and its former World War Two allies. ... The Détente era of the Cold War is s...

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World War II left most of Germany in ruins. ... When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. ... It was a conflict later known as the Cold War. There were principle causes of the Cold War on which billions of dollars were spent for weapons and propaganda, to buy friends, influence people, and try to prove oneself better than the other. ... The Start of the Cold War affected Germany immediately. ...

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Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to the middle east resulting in widespread chaos. Having sustained staggering lose during the war, USSR was determined to establish a buffer zone in eastern Europe. Between 1945 and 1948, the soviets sponsored dictators to seize power in Europe's war-torn heart land. ...

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Josip Tito The Post World War II climate of the Balkan state of Yugoslavia was at best an unstable one. ... Ten years of war have demonstrated just how deep the seeds of hate are planted in the hearts of these people. ... Had the Soviets played a major role in removing the Germans, there is no doubt in my mind that Yugoslavia would have been behind the "Iron Curtain" like the rest of the communist states for the majority of the cold war. ... Using his natural charisma and impressive war record, Josip Tito was able to do what few leader in history have been able to do. ... This is what...

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World War Ï began as the YCP grew in size and power. ... After the war Tito became prime minister and minister of defense. ... After the Russian Civil war Tito returned to Yugoslavia. ... Tito's foreign policies were tested during the cold war. By remaining neutral he was able to understand both viewpoints in the cold war. ...

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The Russians, or known as The Soviet Union in that time, got East Germany and many other countries at the end of World War II. The Berlin Wall was a symbol for the Cold War Era. The Americans could not intervene directly because of the threat of Nuclear War. The American people were petrified with the threat of Nuclear War. ...

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The areas of ethic conflict were: "Russia (Tatarstan and Chechnya), Ukraine(Crimea), Moldova(Transdnistria), Latvia and Estonia (Russian minorities), Georgia(Abkhazia, South Ossetia), Armenia and Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh), Central Asia (Kazakhstan's Russian minority; the Ferghana valley; Tajikistan's civil war)" (www.lse.ac.uk ). ... The Cold War and USSR are over. ... The ethnic conflicts had caused great troubles in Bosnia, Kosovo and many places in Eastern Europe so many wars in Caucasia and middle Asia are expected. ... The Turkic states may go in war with the non-Turkic s...

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