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Competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between US and USSR and their allies. This informed them in making the decision for the cold war to be cold.
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USA bombed two Japanese cities in order to end world war 2. It still remains the only conflict that had nuclear weapons. Between 129, 000 and 226, 000 people were killed and many generations of people in the area's health were damaged because of the radioactivity.
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After world war 2 there was lots of poverty and member of high power worried that people would start voting for communist leaders because of this wealth gap. So 19 European countries came up with and signed this plan 13 billion dollars worth of economic aid helping to restore industrial and agricultural production. It also was about ensuring financial stability and expanding trade. -
The USA and USSR both were in charge of different parts of Berlin and when their friendly alliance ended the USSR made a blockage around eat Germany and USA decided to defend their territory in west Germany -
The USSR with China's help was pushing Communism in the north of Korea. When they decided to invade and try and take over the south part of Korea, the USA stepped in and tried to get back the whole country and make it Capitalist. They failed in making the country whole again but they managed to maintain the south of Korea and influence their politics by making the south Capitalist. This is the reason Korea is now split into two countries.
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USA and USSR were trying to one up each other in technological advancements. It started with Russia sending a satellite to space first and ended with America getting the first person on the moon
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Fought between the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the US-backed Republic of Vietnam in the south, it ended with the defeat of South Vietnam in April 1975. More than one million soldiers and perhaps two million civilians died during the war. This relates to the cold war because it was part of the fight between the USSR and the USA for their ideologies.The USA saw Vietnam as a crucial point on the front line against communist expansion in Asia.
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The Cuban missile crisis was a major confrontation that brought the USA and the USSR close to war over the presence of Soviet nuclear-armed ballistic missiles in Cuba. It played an important part in Nikita Khrushchev’s fall from power and the USSR’s determination to achieve equal nuclear power and technology with the United States. The crisis also marked the closest point that the world had ever come to a global nuclear war. -
The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
There was a Coup against the USSR leader Gorbachev. Higher-ups didn't like the way he was trying to take the country. Especially him creating and being committed to Glasnost (increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities). 15 independent countries were made: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan (and Germany one year earlier).