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The Cold War: A Battle Between Capitalism and Communism The Cold War began not very long after the end of World War II in 1945. Despite the fact that, the Soviet Union was an essential part of the Allied Powers, there was certainly a great amount of distrust between the Soviet Union and what remains of the Allies, specifically the United States. The Allies were worried about Stalin 's ruthless leadership and also the spread of communism. The Cold War was a long stretch of tension between the US and

Soviet Union? The Cuban Missile Crisis was basically a missile scare. It was an engagement between the United States and the Soviet Union regarding Soviet ballistic missiles that were nuclear armed and deployed in Cuba. The Soviet Union carried the missiles from overseas by ships. This lasted 13 days and consisted of fear, fighting, and most of all, difficult decisions for both the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was in October of 1962 that a U.S. spy plane discovered that the Soviet Union had

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union (U.S.). Paragraph 1/ USSR and Communism, USA and Federal Public: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (U.S.S.R.) also called Soviet Union Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, were under communist rule. Communism was an idea that works well on paper but not in real life. It was a theory brought up

important key player during the Civil War. South Carolina had major military and political importance throughout the Civil War. South Carolina was the battleground of many significant events during this time. Such as the capture of Port Royal, the Union blockade of Charleston, Sherman's march through the state, the burning of Columbia, and Fort Sumter. South Carolina had many important battles fought on its territory, Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is an island in the Charleston Harbor, its main purpose for

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the discovery of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. The dramatic military standoff between the two nations grew out of the Cold War, at the height of the United States-Soviet rivalry. The crisis was unique because it mostly played out between the White House and Kremlin in a series of formal and informal letters, with “little input from the respective bureaucracies typically involved in the

Berlin Airlift was post World War ll, Germany split up into 4 zones, the Soviet Blockade, and the Cold War. When World War ll ended and the Allied powers came out victorious against Germany, the Allies had to decide what to do with the country. The allies withheld their decisions at the Yalta and Postdam conferences, and determined that they would split Germany up into four zones between the United States, Soviet Union, France, and Britain. Because of Germany splitting up into four different zones

The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 nearly brought a nuclear confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union. This is due to the fact that the Soviet Union put nuclear missile into Cuba and US installing missile in Turkey. The Soviet Union made friend with Cuba’s President, Fidel Castro because the US wanted to overthrow Castro. After coming to a compromise a nuclear war was averted between Cuba and the US. The sequence of events occurred during the Cuban Missile Crisis begins on August 31, 1962 which

INTRODUCTION After the Second World War, a delicate balance of power emerged between the once Allies: France, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. The victorious powers divided Germany into four occupation zones, allowing each Ally to run its region until a new suitable government could be set up and the country could be united again. Berlin, located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany, was also split into four zones. In June 1948, the Western Allies, Britain, France

On October 16 1962, I was made aware that the Soviet Union were building nuclear missile sites on the island of Cuba through photographs taken by an American U-2 spy plane. I wanted to keep that I knew about the missiles secret from the Soviet Union and Cuba so I proceeded about my business as normally as one can when they have just discovered that their enemies has their ally building launching sites for ballistic missiles with a range of 1000 miles. This was a terrifying threat that had been

Soviets wants to run a system of government called Communism. Communism is where the government runs the economy and the U.S. believed in the opposite. The difference caused tension between both countries which will lead up to the Cold War. The Soviet Union believed that Communism will take over the world and that they will win the war. The United States retaliation against the U.S.S.R. spreading communism