The Cold War

The Cold War (in the 1950s)

The word Cold War was first used in 1947 Bernard Baruch who was the senior advisor to the 33rd president of the United States, Harry Truman.

The Cold War was between the Soviet Union and the United States and it was a half century of military buildup, political maneuvering for international support and behind the scenes military assistance for allies and satellite nations that began in the late 1940s. This was caused from threats of mutual nuclear destruction. It latest for about four decades

 Berlin Airlift in (1948-1949)
Was the time when there were threats in bringing an open war with explosive situations.
By the end of WWII when Germany was defeated it was divided amongst the victors; the Soviet Union=eastern half, United States=western, Great Britain and France and the Soviet Union. There was four-power provisional government called the allied control council that was installed within Berlin and it was to control and rebuild the entire city of Berlin..

The Korean Conflict (1950-1953)

june 25, 1950-july 27,1953 and it was a conflict betwen North Korea and South Korea. South korea supported principally by the US, UK and the Philippines. While in North Korea it supported Peoples volunteer Army of comminist China and then later Soviet combat advisors, air craft pilots and weapons...

With the United States the conflict was termed to have a police action, as the Korean Conflict, under the united nations, rather then a war...They largely in order were to remove the necessity of a Congressional declaration of war. 

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The Cold War latest for about four decades and it was very expensive. It costed the U.S. eight trillion dollars in military expenditures and over 100,000 lives in Korea and Vietnam. 

There is no exact cost for the Soviet Union, only that they spent a larger percentage of their gross national product on the war, maybe as much as 60 percent.

In december 1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S Pesident George Bush ended the war ofically at a summit in Malta. Although tensions still lingered... least the war still ended !!