The Cold War Today

The cold war was a long lasting war that called for many advancements in the military and technology area's. In the military America had created the atomic bomb, then later the H-Bomb, these bombs were made all because America wanted to be better than Russia. But late in the month of April President Obama signed a treaty with the Russian government to reduce most of their Nuclear bombs. Technology during the cold war allows us now to enter space, take pictures from space, and discover new things from space.

Cold War Tensions- Cuban missile crisis

The Cuban missile crisis was a time of great fear in America. This started with the Russians sending nuclear bombs to Cuba, knowing this America was frightened that any day at any time Cuba could wipe out most to all Americans. The United States and J.F.Kennedy had 12 days to decide what to do about this issue before the bombs were ready and armed. This all ended with the Russians and Americans agreeing to certain terms. The main idea in this treaty was: to get Russia to pull all nuclear weapons out of Cuba and 6 months later America will pull their nuclear weapons out of Turkey.

Cold War Tensions- Korean War

The Korean War was started after Russia spread their influence into china then continued on and tried to reach Korea. After Russia "took over" North Korea, America went to war to keep South Korea from being influenced by Communism. The War lasted for three years (1950-1953) and during that time 33,741 US soldiers died. The war ended with the US and South Korea attacking North Korea secretly.

U.S.A. Role

CONTAINMENT, thats the USA policy. USA tried to stop communism by containing Russias influence. The U.S. Felt like they lost a country once Russia spread their influence into China. When China started to spread their influence into North Korea, America went to war to keep communism out of South Korea.

Cold War Tensions- Communism

The Cold War was a long lasting war that put many tensions around the world. The major tension for the American people was whether or not America was going to become a communist country or not. This question scared many Americans because of the spread of communism in Asia, people were scared because they thought communism would eventually reach them!!! The rest of Asia and some of Europe had tensions such as going to war over communism and communism reaching them.

Cold War

The cold war put a threat of the spread of communism all over the world, it started directly after WWII in 1945. When America and Russia were once allies during WWII but then enemies. Communism started with the spread from Russia into China, through China into North Korea, which lead to the war in South Korea. The Korean war was a war that America sent over 500,000 men and spent 20-22 billion dollars to stop the communist belief .