The Cold War was warm enough to be worrying about it becoming a
hot war, World War III. The amount of Soviet
armour in East Germany was impressive, worrying, a real threat.
Propaganda operations were big time. The communists
had Willi Münzenberg who was a master of the
business, using his Innocents Clubs. He was
very effective until he was murdered by Joe Stalin.
They were still effective without him. Stories about the
Red Scare were very effective
Red Herrings. Abusing
Joe McCarthy paid off. So did using the Main Stream
Media to pretend that
John Beaty did not exist
or write The Iron Curtain Over America.
Cold War ex Wiki
The Cold War was so named because the two major powers—each possessing
nuclear weapons and thereby threatened with
mutual assured destruction—did not meet in direct military combat. However,
in their struggle for global influence they engaged in ongoing
psychological warfare and in regular indirect confrontations through
proxy wars.
Cycles of relative calm would be followed by high tension which could have led
to war. The most tense involved the
Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the
Korean War
(1950–1953), the
Suez
Crisis (1956), the
Berlin Crisis of 1961, the
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the
Vietnam
War (1959–1975), the
Yom Kippur War (1973), the
Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), the Soviet downing of
Korean Air Lines Flight 007 (1983), and the
“Able Archer” NATO military exercises (1983). The conflict was expressed
through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, extensive
aid to
client states, espionage, massive propaganda campaigns, conventional and
nuclear arms
races, appeals to neutral nations, rivalry at sports events, and
technological competitions such as the
Space Race.
The US and USSR became involved in political and military conflicts in the
Third
World countries of Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast
Asia. To alleviate the risk of a potential nuclear war, both sides sought relief
of political tensions through
détente in
the 1970s.
In the 1980s, the United States increased
diplomatic, military, and economic pressures on the Soviet Union, at a time
when the communist state was already suffering from
economic stagnation. In the mid-1980s, the new Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of
perestroika ("reconstruction", "reorganization", 1987) and
glasnost
("openness", ca. 1985). This opened the country and its satellite states to a
mostly peaceful
wave of revolutions which culminated in the
collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, leaving the United States as the
dominant military power. The Cold War and its events have left a significant
legacy, and it is often referred to in popular culture, especially in media
featuring themes of espionage and the threat of
nuclear warfare.
PS One Cold War didn't achieve what various War
Mongering rogues wanted so now they are working on
Cold War II. Or perhaps contra the
Merchants of Death want the multigigabuck
cash flow that goes with it.
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The Cold War, often dated from 1945–1991, was a sustained state of
political and military tension between powers in the
Western Bloc, dominated by the
United States with
NATO and other allies; versus powers in the
Eastern Bloc, dominated by the
Soviet
Union with the
Warsaw
Pact and other allies. This began after the success of their temporary
wartime alliance against
Nazi
Germany, leaving the USSR and the US as two superpowers with profound
economic and political differences. A neutral faction arose with the
Non-Aligned Movement founded by
Egypt,
India, and
Yugoslavia, this faction rejected association with either the US-led West or
the Soviet-led East.