cold war

Fears of communism had long been set into the minds of the public , with many anti communist propaganda being shown ,as early as  1919-21 and again in 1947-57  when there was a so called red scare where the publics fears of communist invaders avid on the destrcution of the free world, leading to a crack down on the so called commies and the arrest of a many a innocent civilian.

The 60s was a battle ground for the two then superpowers shows of strength against each other known as the cold war .The start of this competitions came about at the end of the WW2 when berlin was separated between the allies into a French ,English American and Russian zone ,all zones except the russians  formed together to create a single economic unit . angering the soviets, in reply to this  Stalin blocked all rail and road access to berlin,and it is this blockade that is seen as a main catalyst for the cold war, starting the competition between the two nations. to heighten tensions further the soviets built a wall around their section of Berlin to stop inhabitants of their zone defecting to the others.

after the unveiling  of the US’s atomic bomb in 1945 upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki  an arms race between the us and the soviets began with the Russians building their own bomb by 1949 .

 

Tensions between the two came to a spearhead in 1950 .when the Korean peninsula that had been separated after WW2 between a democratic  US zone in the south and a communist soviet north both separated by an invisible line known as the 38th parallel.

failure of the soviet north to hold free elections deepened the division between the two sides and in 1950 when the  communist north forces invaded the south , The UN requested that forces be sent to help the south most of which came from the us and other supporting countries.

UN forces managed to push the Communists out of South Korea and up to the Chinese border. Communist China then entered the war , helping the northern communists resist the un force, pushing them back to the 38th parallel where the war had begun, the rest of the war was fought along this line until 1954 when an armistice was signed with Russia ending the war.

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After death of Stalin in 1953 the cold war activities became more intense with the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. supporting opposite sides in different regions such as Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.

as with the arms  race between the two superpowers the sparked a space race between the two in by launching the first satellite by the name of sputnik in 1957 . and the soviets having the upper hand for a while fo example in 1961 the soviets had launched the 1wst man into space this race was effectively won though by the us who put 1^st man on the moon in1969 .