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The Cold War (Definition & features (Characteristics (Indirect war (A…

- - - - Economical: recovery for its influence regions.
      - Political: supported anticommunist Governments (militar dictatorships).
      - Militar: militar alliances (States from Asia and Pacific).
- - - - Discrete conflict with no direct confrontations, but an increse in the development of nuclear weapons (persuasive purposes).
  - - - A war won't bring any benefit to any side.
    - - United States and Soviet Union allies
    - - Communism vs Capitalism
    - - The superpowers had to intervene in order to keep or gain relationships with other coountries.
  - - - Truman Doctrine
        
        Communism is a menace
        
        US must avoid communism expansion
    - - Antagonic blocks
        
        Soviet Union - New democracy countries
        
        United States - Imperialists and antidemocratic
- - - - In 1959 the revolution succeeded in Cuba. This caused tension in the United States, for they were afraid of such an unpredictable state being near them. Because of this, USA made a blockade around the Cuban Island. In response, Cuba seeked out support from the Soviet Union.
    - - After years of French occupation in Vietnam, it was finally freed. However Vietnam divided into two factions: the capitalist south and the communist north. After the Gulf of Tonkin incident (an attack from North Vietnamese torpedo boats against an US Destroyer boat) the United States started getting involved in the war by supporting the capitalist south of Vietnam.
    - - After the end of World War II, Germany was occupied by the Soviet Union, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. However, due to difference of postures the Soviets got more and more separated form the others, to a level on which it even build a wall to keep them away.
    - - The tension between the URSS and the USA eventually led to a conflict not of force but of technological development. After the launch into orbit of the Soviet satellite Sputnik I, the americans wanted to do the same and started developing their space technologies. This eventually led to the 1969 moon landing by the USA's space agency. .
- - - - Renunciation to confrontation
        
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        United States
        
        Eisenhower develop a strategy in
        order to confront the doctrine of
        massive reprisals
      - Refusal to use war
        
        Start of the "Thaw"
        
        Sovietic Union
        
        Repression against the rebels in Berlin in 1953
        
        The creation of the Versolia pact
        
        The launch of the Sputnik rocket in 1957
    - - The limists of coexistence
        
        Suez Crisis (1952)
        
        The movement of the free officers
        gave a putsch to Egypt that
        granted the power to general
        Nasser, he nationalized the
        channel of Suez
        
        The revolt of hungary (1956)
        
        The rise of Jrushchev favored
        the communist countries, in
        Hungary the measures of
        Irme Nagy provoked that
        Moscow forzace
        its dismissal
        
        The society started to protest
        in a very intense way, it caused
        the fall of prosovietic government
- - - - Market economy
      - International Organisms of Economic Cooperation
        
        IMF
        
        BIRD
      - Marshall plan
      - OECE
    - - OTAN
      - Exportation of the model of division to the rest of the world
    - - Anticommunism
      - Democratic systems
  - - - CAME
    - - Private Property doesn't exist
      - Soviet Totalitarism
    - - Warsav Pact
- - - - War
        
        Communists vs. Monarchists
        
        Monarchists, supported by capitalists (USA and UK), won
    - - Edvard Benes (communist)
        
        External issues: Jan Masaryk (not communist)
        
        Stalin ordered the depuration
        
        Benes --> Gottwald
    - - Diplomatic Crisis
        
        Soviets vs. British
        
        Oil
    - - Civil war
        
        Communists (Mao Zedong) vs. Nationalists (Chiang Kai-shek, supported by US)
        
        Communists won
        
        Nationalists took refuge in Taiwan Island
  - - - UK, France and US wanted to create a new german State
        
        Stalin blocked Berlin and its ways to communicate
        
        Creation of two States
        
        German Democratic Republic (communist)
        
        Germany Federal Republic (capitalist)
    - - RDA had tough laboral conditions
        
        Demands of political openness
        
        Soviets had to suppress protests with tanks
- - - - Accords
        
        Communists States would recognize Human Rights.
        
        Recognition of frontiers appeared after the WWII.
        
        System of conferences to ease communication.
  - - - Weapons
      - Nuclear proliferation
      - Space race
    - - New conflict regions: Arabian VS Israeli.
    - - USA: value crisis.
      - USSR: revolt and rivalries.
  - - - It declared the prohibition of the antimissile defense systems from both countries and the reduction of nuclear weapons.
    - - Were settled by Brézhned and the president Jimmy Carter in 1979.
  - - - Made easier the contact between the two Gemanies
        
        "Two states, one nation"
        
        Germany entered the UN