What years did the Cold War start and end.
1945-1991
The race for more and higher quality weapons & nuclear power
Arms Race
Leader of Soviet Union in the beginning of Cold War
Joseph Stalin
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Space Race
Ronald Reagan
This pact was created as a result of the formation of NATO
Warsaw Pact
He created glasnost and perestroika, which led to openness and more freedom in the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
This event symbolized the end of the Cold War and the end to the dangerous ideological conflict
Tearing down of the Berlin Wall
As a way to spread communism and power, the Soviet Union created these...
satellite states
This city was divided into four regions after WWII
Berlin
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist Soviet Union (First proxy war)
Korean War
This was the belief that the government should own all means of production, it often lead to dictatorships, censorship, and complete control over citizens activites
communism
The competition and quality of weapons created during the cold war could have led to this.. if used
Mutually assured destruction