The Cuban missile crisis was an important event that took place during the cold war. In the Cuban missile crisis, America was fearing that The Soviet Union had certain missile instalations in Cuba . The U.S found out about these missile installments from satellite imagery that showed the missiles being transpor

In conclusion the cold war never presented any real threat to the U.S. but it certainly destroyed half of germany and set up the rebuilding of the Soviet Union. The United States proved to be the true super power of the world and the Cold war ended and now there is peace.

Hixson, Walter. Propaganda, Culture, and the Cold War. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996

"communists kidnapped Gorbachev, and then, on August 19 of 1991, they announced on state television that Gorbachev was very ill and would no longer be able to govern." (Hixson, 58) The attempt of the communist revolution when Gorbatschow was kept hostage in his vacation home on the krim was fortunately unsuccesful and didn't stop the process of Perestroika in the Soviet Union. It is also safe to say that his actions actually avoided the total bankruptcy of his country. With his new course of Perestroika and Glasnost he found a creditor in the world bank for a lot of infrastructural improvements on the countryside. He also needed help with improvements in nuclear power stations which was obvious to say after seeing what happened with Tschernobil.

The soviet Union caught on to this sneeking out and built the Berlin wall. Each side (east and west) had missle installations pointing at one another. If there was any immediate threat in the cold war it was for the Germans not for the Americans.

The Soviets had a good strategy in using Cuba against the United States and there idea to get the missiles found worked out perfectly for them. The missiles never posed a threat to us, but just gave the Soviets an opportunity to flex there muscles at the United States.

Durin the Cold War in Germany things weren't going so well. After world warII ended Germany was split up because it was so destroyed. The Soviet Union decided to take everything from Germany and so the U.S devised 2 plans for what they should do with there part. The marshall plan and the morgentau plan. The morgentau plan was proposed by a jewish congressman and he obviously believed that Germany should become an agriculturally based country. On the other hand the Marshall plan proposed that we build up the country in order to help us against the Soviet Union. The country was then divided into 2 parts, East and West Germany. The West side controlled by U.S ,France, and Britian , and the East controlled by Russia. Everyone wanted to be in West Germany because it was much better conditions and people had work and there was more freedom, so the Soviet Union made the iron curtain to prevent them from going. The country capital was Berlin and on the east side so West Germany was able to access it through the transit and then the people would just go to Berlin and escape that way.

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