Cold War, a brief that does not describe an event that is unique in human history.For almost 40 years, the world powers have competed in the creation of a powerful weapon of mass destruction.The arms race has forced people to live in fear.
Cold War, it summarizes the main events will be outlined below, mainly took place between the Soviet Union and the United States.The two great world powers, the two camps - the capitalist and socialist, two powerful military center.It all started with the failure of the Soviet Union to accept so-called "Marshall Plan."USSR feared that the socialist countries will come under the influence of the United States.Churchill's speech in Fulton put everything in its place: started an open confrontation between the two giants.
How is it manifested?Local conflicts of the Cold War were sharp and dangerous: the Berlin crisis ended the Exaltation of the Berlin Wall - a symbol of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 almost led to the Third World War, the Korean War was a measure of how in one country can be split intotwo different states, the Afghan war has become an example of cruelty, and the war in Vietnam - one of the major conflicts in the second half of the century.
also the Cold War (briefly about the created blocks) became eventually the creation of numerous political alliances of states: the two main opposing bloc - Warsaw Pact and NATO is, economic units of the CMEA and the EEC, as well as various blocks CENTO, ASEAN.Do not gone away and the science: the atomic bombs were created, the first "public" test which was carried out in operations in the Japanese war in August 1945, when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.
Later in the USSR was created, and the hydrogen bomb.In addition to creating weapons of mass destruction, the Soviet Union and the United States competed in the exploration of space.So, the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin was ours, and the first man on the moon - Neil Armstrong them.The mastery of outer space could mean the approach of victory to one or another camp.
Despite fierce competition in the Cold War was a period of detente when signed important agreements on the limitation and reduction of armaments tests.This period has the following time frame: 1962/1979 years.At this time, it was held the famous meeting on security in Helsinki, where the Soviet Union was represented by Leonid Brezhnev.
But in 1979, the Cold War has received a new round.The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan marked the beginning of the brutal Afghan war.The end of the Cold War occurred in the period of perestroika, when Mikhail Gorbachev announced a "new political thinking" and withdrew Soviet troops from Afghanistan.It was one of the reasons for the defeat of the Soviet Union in the race of military weapons.
Cold War, briefly described the events of the arms race by blocks and discoveries - all this has become an integral part of the history of the 20th century.Confrontation between the two world powers ended a political defeat of the USSR and the collapse of the socialist camp.
