The Effects of Cold War

Nato/Warsaw Pact

After Wolrd War II, Soviet Union occupied much of Eastern Europe into what's called the Soviet Bloc. With this they installed communist governments in those governments and made their economies to serve the Soviet Union and not their own populations. Because of this the countires in Western Europe became uneasy and decided to form a mutual milatary alliance called North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. Key countries include: United States, Great Britian,France and Candada. In 1955 the Soviets formed their own alliance called The Warsaw Pact. Key Countries: Soviet Union, Czecholslovakia,Easy Germany.

Soviet Bloc

The Korean War : 1950-1953

The Korean war was a conflict between North Korea,supported by the Soviet Union , and South Korea, supported by the United States and its allies. The war began with the invasion of South Korea by North Korean forces, and it quickly became a brutal and bloody conflict, with heavy casualties. The United States played a key role in the war, sending troops and providing air and naval support, while China intervied on the side of North Korea. China feared that the UN forces would invade China so what they did was send troops to aid North Korea. With that China and the North Koreans pushed the UN forces back. And by 1953 the conflcit ended in a stalemate because everything in the two countires remianed largely as they were before the war, except the millions of causualties.

Korea

Cuban Missile Crisis

October 16,1962-October 29,1962

Cuba

The Cuban Missile Crisis was a critical moment in world history, as it brought the world closer than ever before to nuclear war. The standoff was a result of the Cold War Tensions between the US and Soviet Union , which were engaged into a global stuggle for influence and power. The Crisis began when American sky planes discovered missels in cuba (October 1962) and this forced Presisdent John F. Kennedy to place a blockade. The Soviet Union responded by increasing milatary presence in Cuba and threatning to retaliate if the U.S attacked. After intense negotiations, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S promise to not invade cuba and to remove U.S missilies from Turkey.

Angolian Civil War 1974-1975

Angola was a colony of Portugal and they had united various groups to become one. As decolonziation started each ones of these groups fought against the Portugese and won their Independence. Once they were free the rival groups had started to fight over the newly freed Angola. This Civil war later became part of a Proxy war for the Cold War. The United States backed up one of these groups, the Soviet Union backed another,and South Africa backed another.

Angola

Sandinista-Contras conflict in Nicaragua 1979-1990

Nicaragua

In 1979 the Sandinista National Liberation Front, who were self proclaimed socialist, siezed power in Nicaragua which the United States did not like. And so two years after the U.S backed a group of contras who tried to overthrow the Sandinistas, who in turn had support from the Soviet Union. In this attempted overthrow the contras commited many human rights violatiosn, and in the end the conflict ended in a cease-fire and the Sadinistas were defeated in the next elections

Sources

1) Ways of the World Chapter 14

2) Heimlers History: Effects of the Cold War 8.3

https://youtu.be/yr3xoEO0xJY

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