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THE COLD WAR
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THE COLD WAR is the name given to the political and ideological confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It began shortly after the end of World War ll in 1945, and ended with the end of the Soviet Union in 1992. All stated with the disagreement over the division of Germany between the powers that had won World War ll.
The main causes that brought about the Cold War was the diferences of ideologies and policies that the goverments of the United Stated and the Soviet Union defended and wanted to put .
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United States defended democracy and capitalism, also the principles of private property and free initiative. On the other hand, the Sovietic Union wanted socialism ,economic equality,the elimination of private property, and the capacity of the State to cover all the needs of its citizens( system that was put into use in Eastern Europe) .
This period of time separated the world in two large blocs, a communist one, led by the USSR. Its members were: Checoslovaquia Yugoslavia Polonia Rumania Vietnam The capitalist one, dominated by the United States. Members: France England Belgium Holland Finland
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Between both powers there was a permanent tension that threatened a third great conflict, but they never went to a direct war for fear of destroying each other with nuclear weapons.
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The term Cold War was used for the first time in the period corresponding to 1945, by the writer George Orwell.After the end of the World War ll, the writer used the term in an essay.
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The Cold War brought the creation of...:
MARSHALL PLAN: -It was an idea of the United States to help Western Europe. It tried to provide economic aid worth about 13.000 million dollars at the time, for the reconstruction of those countries in Europe that had been left very badly after World War ll. It was in operation 4 years.
-Contrary to the Marshall Plan, the Soviet Union created THE COUNCIL FOR MUTUAL ECONOMIC AID.He tried to promote trade relations between these countries , and the economic model adopted was that of the USSR.
COMECON
-Was created in 1949 by the countries that were part of Western Europe and their allies. Its objective was to protect Western European countries from the threat posed by the Soviet Union and to counteract the spread of communism after World War ll.
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The cold war was divised in 4 stages:
In this first stage it includes the uprising of Europe from the bloody Second World War, financially supported by the Marshall plan, wich was convenient for the European recovery to face Soviet interference in Eastern Europe, At this stage, the Berlin blockade occurred,that is, the closure of ther borders of communist and capitalist world, between wich there will be little or almost no contact. To face this panorama in the West , the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created, wich was committed to the defense of Western Europe, the Cominform was also born, an institution of international ideological and political control that seeks to preserve the union of the communist republics. ...
First stage The Formulation of the bipolar world 1947 -1953
In 1950, a year after the USSR detoned its first atomic bomb, a Communist Revolution was stablished in that country.This new panorama confirmed to the communist regime of North Korea, thus starting the Korean War in wich the United States took direct participation, with the consent of the United Nations. This ended in 1953 with the victory of the pro Western side and the reestablishment of the border between two nations, whose tensions continue to this day.
This stage begins with the change in international political acts after the election of Dwing Eisenhower as president of the United States and the death of the Soviet leader losif Stalin, occurring in 1953. At this stage, the arms race and the space race began, the fruits of wich will technologically and culturally define the end of the 20th century. During this period, the two powers added to their sides the largest number of decolonized countries in Asia, Africa and America, wich US troops were finally defeated in 1973 and their claims to stop the communist advance in the area were broken . Vietnam was reunified two years later under the communist command of Ho Chi Minh, whilw in Cambodia the goverment of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge was stablished in 1960 and in Laos the same thing happened own in command of Pathet Lao. ...
Second stage The Escalation of tension Vietnam and the Cuban missile crisis 1953-1962
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-Another of the command triumps was the socialist Revolution led by Fidel Castro, who could overthrow the the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and establish his own until the beginning of stablish his own until the 21s century. This gesture would be applauded by numerous Latin American intellectuals anfd politicians, becoming a symbol of the Latin American leftist insurgency, repressed during the following decades by military dictarships financed by the US in countries such as Venezuela, Chile,Argentina,Paraguay,Bolivia or Panama. -The cuban revolution allowed the USSR to position itself very close to North American territory, it was perceived as a threat intolerable by President John F. Kennedy,who sentenced Cuba to a total economic blockade, in 1962, the USSR tried to place its nuclear missiles in Cuba, in an identical situation to the ones the US had in Turkey. -The tension of the conflict , wich included threats of massive retaliation,culminating in the withdrawal of the same iles of both Cuba and Turkey and Kennedys commitent not to invade the island , the blockade was maintened until the beginning of the 21s century. -The crisis established the red telephone a direct linde between Washintong and Moscow, through wich the Soviet and Americam leaders could negotiate in cases of extreme gravity.
At this stage,world polarization was more complex,since the economies of Japan and Europe managed to recover from the debacle of World War ll and the Third World countries knew how to organize themselves into institutions such as OPEC and the movement of non aligned countries, wich allowed them to escape the global dinamics. The USSR promoted a relaxion in its international policies,wich did not prevent Soviet troops from entering Czechoslovakia to crush the so called Pregue Spring, a momentary political liberalization that began in January 1968. In May of the same year, a series of student protest and civil strikes led to the fall of General De Gaulle in France,in what was called May 1968, the left wing parties and unions that promoted these protest failed to win.With power, this event had an enormous social impact in the West and marked the beginning of a new,modern,liberal morality that respected human rights. In 1969,the breaak in relations between Maoist China and the USSR led to a military conflict and rapprochement between China and the US,wich allowed President Richard Nixon to visit Beijing
Third Stage: La detente 1962-1979
-This large stage began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan,putting an end to the so called peaceful coexistence that politicians like Jimmy Carter had attempted in previous years. Warlike movements like this,or the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, or the Iranian Revolution, represented an economic effort that sentenced the USSR to invest 25% of its GDP in military spending, wich led to a deep economic crisis at the beginning of the decade of the 80. ...
Fourth Stage The second Cold War 1979-1991
Mihail Gorbachev assumes the General Secretariat of the USSR in 1985,the Soviet economy was completly stagnant and the fall in oil prices forced him to undertake a series of reforms, in 1987 more profoud ones were announced under the name of Perestroika. A negotation process began that culminated in 1989, with the proglamation of Ronald Reagan and Gorbachev at the Malta Summit of the end of the Cold War. In 1989 the Berlin Wall also collapsed and the following year German reunification was signed,while the USSR was worried about its own survival. On December 25, 1991, after a coup attempt and numerous republics complaining about their independence from the Soviet system, the USSR is completely dissolved and the last remnats of the Cold War were buried by the triumph of capitalism.