The Cold War, which cannot be briefly described, is an event that has no analogues in the history of mankind. For almost 40 years, world powers have competed in the creation of powerful weapons of mass destruction. The arms race made people live in fear.
The Cold War, briefly its main events will be described below, mainly took place between the USSR and the USA. Two great world powers, two camps - capitalist and socialist, two powerful military centers. It all started with the refusal of the Soviet Union to accept the so-called “Marshall Plan”. The USSR feared that the countries of the socialist camp would fall under the influence of the United States. Churchill's speech in Fulton put everything in its place: an open confrontation between the two giants began.
How did she manifest? The local conflicts of the Cold War were sharp and dangerous: the Berlin crises ended with the erection of the Berlin Wall - a symbol of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, the Caribbean crisis in 1962 nearly led to the Third World War, the Korean War became an indicator of how one country could split into two different states, the Afghan war became an example of cruelty, and the war in Vietnam was one of the largest conflicts in the second half of the century.
Also, the Cold War (briefly on the created blocs) became the time of the creation of numerous political alliances of states: the two main warring blocs are the ATS and NATO, the economic blocs of CMEA and EEC, as well as the various blocs of CENTO and ASEAN. Science did not go aside: atomic bombs were created , the first "public" test of which was carried out in an operation in the Japanese war in August 1945, when bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Later, a hydrogen bomb was created in the USSR . In addition to creating weapons of mass destruction, the USSR and the USA competed in space exploration. So, our first man in space was our Yuri Gagarin, and the first man on the moon was their Neil Armstrong. Mastering outer space could mean the approach of victory to a particular camp.
Despite all the fierce competition, there was a period of detente in the Cold War , when important treaties were signed to limit testing and reduce arms. This period has the following time frames: 1962/1979 At this time, the famous Security Conference was held in Helsinki, where the USSR was represented by L.I. Brezhnev.
But in 1979, the Cold War received a new round. The entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan marked the beginning of a brutal Afghan war. The end of the Cold War came in the period of perestroika, when Mikhail Gorbachev announced "new political thinking" and withdrew the Soviet troops from Afghanistan. This was one of the reasons for the defeat of the Soviet Union in the military arms race.
The Cold War, the briefly described events of the arms race, created blocks and scientific discoveries - all this has become an integral part of the history of the 20th century. The confrontations of the two world powers ended in the political defeat of the USSR and the collapse of the socialist camp.