The Cold War
The cold war
I chose to write about the cold war. This is because I think that it is a very interesting theme, and I wanted to learn more about it.
I will talk about when the cold war happened, who was involved, about nuclear weapons and why it was never real fighting and about the Cuban missile crisis. My problem statement: What would have happened if the cold war became hot?
A hot war is actual warfare. All talks have failed and the armies are fighting.
The cold war lasted from 1945 – 1991, and it was a tense relationship that developed between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, and it`s allies. This was after World War II.
The cold war was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who would dominate the world. They each thought that their system of government and economics was best.
This war was unlike any other because the two countries' armies never directly went to war with each other. They were afraid of each other, so they only fought indirectly. They both had large quantities of nuclear weapons, and knew that their own country would have been completely destroyed if they attacked the other.
During the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union had fought as allies. Many people thought that they would be friends after the war ended, but that didn’t happen. Before the war, America had depicted the Soviet Union as almost the devil-incarnate. The Soviet Union had depicted America the same way so their ‘friendship’ during the war was simply the result of having a mutual enemy - Nazi Germany.
The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied. Almost all the other European countries were allies’ whit the United States. This meant that Europe was divided into two. As you can see in this picture. Berlin, the capital of Germany was spitted in half, and that caused the Berlin
I chose to write about the cold war. This is because I think that it is a very interesting theme, and I wanted to learn more about it.
I will talk about when the cold war happened, who was involved, about nuclear weapons and why it was never real fighting and about the Cuban missile crisis. My problem statement: What would have happened if the cold war became hot?
A hot war is actual warfare. All talks have failed and the armies are fighting.
The cold war lasted from 1945 – 1991, and it was a tense relationship that developed between the powers of the Western world, led by the United States and its NATO allies, and the communist world, led by the Soviet Union, and it`s allies. This was after World War II.
The cold war was a competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who would dominate the world. They each thought that their system of government and economics was best.
This war was unlike any other because the two countries' armies never directly went to war with each other. They were afraid of each other, so they only fought indirectly. They both had large quantities of nuclear weapons, and knew that their own country would have been completely destroyed if they attacked the other.
During the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union had fought as allies. Many people thought that they would be friends after the war ended, but that didn’t happen. Before the war, America had depicted the Soviet Union as almost the devil-incarnate. The Soviet Union had depicted America the same way so their ‘friendship’ during the war was simply the result of having a mutual enemy - Nazi Germany.
The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied. Almost all the other European countries were allies’ whit the United States. This meant that Europe was divided into two. As you can see in this picture. Berlin, the capital of Germany was spitted in half, and that caused the Berlin