The Soviet-Union put up barriers blocking trade and tension grew on both sides. ... These nations became known as Soviet Satellites or Soviet block countries. The Soviet- Union blocked efforts to unite Germany. They blocked all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. ... While millions sat in front of their televisions and watched people in Berlin dance together on top of the wall a...

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Just two years before that several thousands miles from Vietnam, on Korean peninsula bloody Korean War ended with July 27, 1953 cease fire agreement between communist North Korea backed by China and US along with UN. ... During cold war world split into two blocks, each of them maintaining existing order and recruit new members. ... (New York Herald Tribune December 22, 1965) Without Soviet block help, as South Vietnam without American, will be unable to stand long lasting and bloody war. ... (Johnson speech at Johns Hopkins University, April 7, 1965) Society felt it needed, and supported in ...

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The Cuba Crisis (1962) The developement of the Cold War until the Cuba Crisis (1945 - 1962) After the unconditional (bedingungslos) capitulation of Germany on may 8th 1945 the Cold War between the two power blocks USA and UdSSR started. ... Hereby two possibilities came into nearer view.The destruction of the russian missile bases by an air attack was found out as too risky so the preferred alternative to build up an 800 miles big quarantine zone was taken. 22.10. ... The soviet prime minister sent a letter to JFK in which he told his read...

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After the war, many warfare strategies and weapons were still used and were building blocks for better warfare in the later decades. ... It was an increased range of 1500 nautical miles. This type was the most successful overall with each boat averaging over 100,000 tons of sinking. ... Overall these new weapons and tactics changed warfare in future decades and many of these aspects of warfare are the building blocks for it....

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Hitler made each insignificant, poverty stricken, jobless youth of the slums feel like they were the best in the world. ... At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter. ... He held briefings with his senior military advisors, often in the company of Party officials and other hangers-on, each afternoon and late each night. ... No military leader can hope to understand the realities of the situation on the ground from hundreds of miles away, and yet he came to believe that he could control all but the smallest units at the front. At the e...

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For example, Mao Zedong from China also converted his country to communism, even though America and Chiang Kai-Shek tried to block this from happening. ... Furthermore, in October 1957, the Soviet Union invented "Sputnik", a satellite that travels around the earth at 18,000 miles per hour, circling the globe every 96 minutes (Doc F). ... This was after President Eisenhower had proposed "the Open Skies" which stated that any plane could fly over each other's territories. ...

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