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The Cold War was a period of tension between the United States and its allies against the Soviet Union and its allies from the 1940s to the early 1990s. They competed for power and influence in subtle ways rather than direct war. Major events like the rise of the Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis were related to Cold War tensions. The space race allowed both nations to showcase scientific capabilities as they tried to one-up each other technologically. The United States dropped the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, remaining the only nuclear attacks against a population.
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conflict. Which means, you know, that it wasn't a war.
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world's two superpowers, the United States and the USSR, sought ideological and strategic
influence throughout the world. So perhaps it's best to think of the Cold War as an era lasting
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Stan, why did you turn the globe to the green parts of not-America? I mean I guess to be fair, we
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a good point. At least the Cold War was not an attempt to make war on a noun, which almost never
works, because nouns are so resilient.
And to be fair, the Cold War did involve quite a lot of actual war, from Korea to Afghanistan as the
world's two superpowers, the United States and the USSR, sought ideological and strategic
influence throughout the world. So perhaps it's best to think of the Cold War as an era lasting
roughly from 1945 to 1990.
Discussions of the Cold War tend to center on international and political history, and those are very
important, which is why we've talked about them in the past. This, however, is United States
history, so let us heroically gaze, as Americans so often do, at our own navel.
Stan, why did you turn the globe to the green parts of not-America? I mean I guess to be fair, we
were a little bit obsessed with this guy.
So the Cold War gave us great spy novels, independence movements, an arms race, cool movies,
like "Doctor Strange Love" and "War Games", one of the most evil mustaches in history, but it also
gave us a growing awareness that the greatest existential threat to human beings is ourselves. It
changed the way we imagined the world and humanity's role in it.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner famously said, "Our tragedy today is a
general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no
longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?" So today we're
going to look at how that came to be the dominant question of human existence and whether we
can ever get past it.
(Intro plays)
So after World War II the US and the USSR were the only two nations with any power left. The
United States was a lot stronger. We had atomic weapons for starters, and also the Soviets had
lost twenty million people in the war, and they were lead by a sociopathic, mustachioed Joseph
Stalin. But the US still had worries, we needed a strong free market oriented Europe and, to a lesser
extent, Asia, so that all the goods we were making could find happy homes.
The Soviets, meanwhile, were concerned with something more immediate, a powerful Germany
invading them, again. Germany, and please do not take this personally Germans, was very, very
slow to learn the central lesson of world history: do not invade Russia, unless you're the Mongols.
[Mongoltage]
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Modern age
- 1. Modern Age.
- 2. How has theworldchangedsince 1900?
- 9. Whofought and died in thetrenches?
- 20. The Cold War was a period of tension and subdued hostility which gripped most of the world between the 1940s and the early 1990s. The primary actors in the Cold War were the United States and its allies, countered by Russia and countries aligned with that nation. Rather than engaging in a potentially devastating out and out war, the countries involved in the Cold War jockeyed for position in more subtle ways. Many major events in global history including the rise of the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis were related to the Cold War. The Cold War has its roots in the Second World War, when the Allied powers made an uneasy pact with Russia to defeat Germany and Italy. The Allied countries were concerned about joining forces with a Communist nation, and Russia was likewise hesitant about the agreement. After the Second World War, Germany was divided into territories occupied by the Allies and Russia, and the relationship started to go sour shortly after that.
- 21. Thespacerace. During the Cold War, both the United States and the Soviet Union endeavored to demonstrate their power. The space race served as an opportunity for the two nations to showcase their scientific and technological capabilities. Amidst propaganda, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. competed for superiority in space as they constantly tried to top each other.
- 24. Whodroppedthefirstatomicbomb "Who" is a relative question....."who" in the sense of what nation would be the United States which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan August 6,1945. The "who" in the sense of what person - is usually accredited to Col. Paul Tibbets US Army Air Forces, the commander of the aircraft named Enola Gay (after his mother) which carried and dropped the bomb. The Japanese had been given a surrender ultimatum, and when there was no response from their government a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki Japan on Aug 9. Both were devastating in death and destruction and they remain the only time in history nuclear weapons were used against a population. These were both nuclear fission weapons. The Hiroshima bomb was a uranium-based device, the Nagasaki bomb used plutonium (derived from uranium). There continues to this day much controversy as to the need for using these weapons since Japan had already seen most of its major cities fire-bombed with conventional pyrotechnic weapons causing equal devastation and killing and maiming as many people. Despite the terrible results of these two bombs, they are mere toys compared with the hydrogen-based (thermonuclear) weapons developed during the cold war which are hundreds of times more fearsome in their potential for destruction.
- 33. VOCABULARY Jockey: to attempt to get power or get into a better position than other people using any methods you can Since the death of the president, opposition parties and the army have been jockeying for power. As the singer came on stage, the photographers jockeyed for position at the front of the hall. Subdue: to reduce the force of something, or to prevent something from existing or developing The fire burned for eight hours before the fire crews could subdue it. He criticized the school for trying to subdue individual expression. Uneasy: If you are uneasy, you are slightly worried or uncomfortable about a particular situation I feel a bit uneasy about asking her to do me such a big favour. Describes a situation or condition that makes people slightly worried, often because it may not continue successfully. Who can predict how long this uneasy peace between the two countries will last? She has a rather uneasy relationship with her mother-in-law. Sour: unfriendly or easily annoyed Overnight, it seemed, their relationship had turned/gone sour. She gave me a sour look. Maim: to injure a person so severely that a part of their body will no longer work as it should Many children have been maimed for life by these bombs. Fearsome: frightening a fearsome reputation a fearsome display of violence
- 34. answers 1.1 september 2.TheEmpire of Japan 3. 1941 4.Italy 5.Enola Gay 6.Hawaii 7. Russia 8.FUBAR is an acronym that commonly means "fucked up beyond all recognition/any repair/all reason".