What is the slang term for the Soviet army? The Red Army.
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Diplomacy, proxy wars, and nuclear deterrence kept the Cold War from being a hot war between the United States and the USSR.
Why is it fair to call the Cold war "a clash of civilizations"? -the Soviets wanted to spread communism and saw themselves at war with allies. They saw their US rebuilding of Western Europe and Japan as a way to spread capitalism and US influence.
Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went.
Postwar Division of Germany Led by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union wanted to punish Germany economically, forcing the country to pay war reparations and contribute its industrial technology to help postwar Soviet recovery.Feb 5, 2020
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A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. It is often characterized as political propaganda. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to by this name.
In August 1945 the USA detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The intention was to force Japan to surrender, thus avoiding a long war in the Pacific. This action had the added potential of pressurizing the USSR into negotiating over Eastern Europe and Germany.
The United States had a decided advantage over the Soviet Union in the period leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Americans had a greater nuclear power with more than 300 land based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and a fleet of Polaris submarines.
Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.Feb 26, 2022
Why was the United States stronger than the USSR after WWII? The U.S had nuclear weapons, while the Russians didn't until 1949. The USSR also lost about 20 million soldiers in WWII. What nations switched to communism after the USSR became communist, and why did the USSR encourage them?