Events+of+The+Cold+War

=**__Events of the cold war__**= =**__(1917-1989)__**=
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The U.S. and the Soviet Union were originally allies in World War II. While saying that, they also had many differences. The US had a democratic government and the Soviet Union had a communist type of government. These caused many tensions between the two sides. Though these problems never escalted to major military force and bloody warfare, these problems and events were known as the "Cold War" The Americans feard the plans of the Russians and their visions of expanding into Europe. They ultimately did not want Russia to rule the world. The actions of both countries, with nuclear powers, caused a scare in both countries' citizens. =__**How the Cold War Got Its Name**__= The Cold War got its name because both sides were scared of bloody warfare so they didn’t have a real war. They fought each other indirectly over the nuclear arms. They mainly fought eachother with words and tried to scare one another. The first couple years of the cold war were mainly a political fight more so than a military fight. The two nations were the only world powers after the “World Wars”. Since they both had nuclear powers, it added a scary aspect to the Cold War.

=__**United States Actions and the Cuban Missle Crisis**__= In 1946 the U.S. tested its first atomic bomb. This started the scare and caused Russia to eventually show their nuclear powers and strengths. Russia contacted Cuba and Fidel Castro and after getting Castro’s approval, the Soviet Union worked secretly inside of Cuba with the building of their missile installations. President Kennedy found out about these plans and started an intense debate with the top U.S. officials and after a week president Kennedy announced to the whole word in a televised address that if Cuba attacked the U.S. it would be taken as an attack from the Soviet Union. He then put in a naval army around Cuba to prevent any other contact and shipments of weapons from the Soviet Union. The U.S. and Soviet Union exchanged many letters and on October 26 the Soviet Union proposed that they would dismantle their missiles in exchange for the U.S. not to invade Cuba. Finally, on October 28, the Soviet Union announced that they would stop the missile installations and trust the U.S. and that they would not invade Cuba. [] =__**Tension in the Western World**__= The Cold War also brought military tension between the powers of the western world. The Cold War brought political, economic , and social forms. Another major event was "The Berlin Airlift" this made Germany divided into three sections also made the Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin starving the population into Soviet support. After that, the US started flying a plane loads of supplies but the east government started allowing traffic back into west Berlin. The events of the Cold War was a revolutionary crisis brought many difficulties into the state, the tension of this war kept growing throughout the years. =**__Berlin Wall__**= On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of German Democratic Republic (GDR) began to build a large wall of concrete and barbed wire keeping the communist from escaping between East and West Berlin. Basically it was a wall separating the East(Communist) half of Berlin, and the West(Democratic) side of Berlin. However, the wall ended up stemming mass defections from East to West. On November 9, 1989, the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross over the border. This excited many people and later that night, crowds swarmed the wall. Many people brought hammers and picks and began to destroy the wall. Eventually, the wall collapsed to the ground. To this day the Berlin Wall remains a huge symbol to the cold war. []

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