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1. Identify and explain ONE effect of the Cold War on the United States.

The cold war led to the US becoming much more religious in their government in a hope of spiting the USSR which had banned all forms of public worship and led to the intergration of religion into the US government more than ever.

1. Identify and explain ONE effect of the Cold War on the Soviet Union.

The cold war led to the Soviet Union pushing themselves hard to catch up with the US in the idea of nuclear weapons. They began testing bigger and stronger nukes by the day, creating a massive amount of nukes. This led to the USSR becoming a world power like that of the US which it had not been before the cold war.

1. Identify and explain ONE effect of the Cold War on another nation and/or region of the world.

The cold war led to many communist conflicts in Asia, with an anti imperial belief already rooted in many of these countries. In many cases communism was led along side anti imperial beliefs and led to many countries becoming communist since so many people hated imperialism .

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The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a war that lasted a little under 10 years and was when the USSR invaded Afghanistan in support of Marxist government, against the Islamist Mujahedeen Resistance. The Russians occupied the major cities and military building in Afghanistan but the Mujahedeen split into smaller groups and practiced guerrilla warfare and about 80% of the country escaped control of the government. Over the next few years Russia remained mainly defensive with the Mujahedeen attacking nearly nonstop in small assaults that eventually led to Russia leaving Afghanistan and organizing a cease fire. The Mujahedeen had gained this near victory with the support of many other countries including the US and UK
The image is a Soviet helicopter taken down by the Mujahedeen forces.

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The fall of the USSR came from many things, but was mainly the resistance of the non Russian countries and populaces that had been under the control of Soviet Russia. Estonia was the first of many non Russian countries to leave the union, and with their leaving inspired the many other countries to leave splitting the USSR into 15 countries and ending the cold war with this crippling strike.

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Formation of the Eastern Bloc (1959-1989)

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Formation of the Eastern Bloc (1959-1989)

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The Eastern Bloc was a group of allies on Russia's western border that was made up of communist countries, eventually these allies weren't really allies but satellites where the USSR kept many of their troops stationed in these countries effectively making them apart of the USSR and allowed the USSR to impose their political ideals on these countries. Eventually though near the end of the USSR many of the Eastern Bloc left the alliance and were backed by foreign countries which left Russia with their hands tied since they wished to avoid a full armed conflict.

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Postwar Occupation & Division of Germany (1945)

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Postwar Occupation & Division of Germany (1945)

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After the war with Germany ended in their defeat, the allies had to make a plan on how they would control and keep Germany from turning back into a radical country prime for another war. Through multiple meetings between the Leaders of the US, UK, USSR and France they devised the idea of splitting Germany up into occupation territories for each of the countries listed. They also decided to split Berlin the capital into four sections, belonging to the UK, US, France and USSR. This led to a lot of different rules in each zone and tension between the Eastern Russian zones and Western occupation zones.

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The Cuban missile crisis happened when Castro allied with Russia and Russia began to station military and missiles in Cuba. The US in fear of homeland security blockaded Cuba and had a looming threat to Cuba of invasion, in response Russia said that they would dismantle their bombs if the US did not invade Cuba. The US agreed and everything went as planned and full scale war was avoided once again.

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The Vietnam War was caused from the the cruel colonial rule of France and occupation of Japan giving the communist leader a platform to form a group vowing to remove both the French and Japanese. This is when the communists first started fighting south Vietnam since they had gained their support in the North. After Japan had been defeated the Northern Vietnam troops were able to fight out the French, ending their rule of Vietnam, but in the peace deal Vietnam was split North and South communist and not communist, this led to the North starting to invade the south. Then the US stepped in support of the south and even sent troops to fight in the war. The war was brutal and the US was not making any progress towards winning. With the US public growing upset with the war and its cruelties the US decided to remove their troops and left the South nearly undefended and eventually the south fell and the communists gained power.

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The Korean war started because after Korea was taken from Japan it was split North and South, North communist the South not. This led to the North trying to invade the south. The US in response sent troops under the banner of the UN to stop North Korea. This meant North Korea was outclassed but then China sent aid to Korea and a stalemate ensued. Eventually a cease fire was agreed upon and a demilitarized zone was made on the border of North and South Korea, though the war never truly ended.

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The Marshall Plan was a plan devised in the US to try and help heal the economy of western European states that had been crippled in the war and keep them from falling to communism in their desperation. They did this by paying money to the European countries and creating an international flow of money through debt. This investment of the US in Europe bolstered their economies and trade led to an alliance forming.

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The Berlin wall was built by those of East Germany, the communist Russia ruled sector of Berlin. It effectively split Berlin into a capitalist section and communist section. This wall left East Germans impoverished and trapped. The Russians tried many ways to gain more influence that would usually end in failure or stalemate. During the Oil shock they sold failed escapees to the west for billions, but when Russia started to liberalize their satellite states and East Germans were heading straight to the wall planning to cross over once they were free, but they weren't freed right away, and in an attempt to calm them they were planning on lifting some travel restrictions but during a press conference one of the soviet leaders got flustered and said all travel restrictions were lifted "with immediate effect". This led to those of East Berlin jumping over the wall and rushing it in mobs destroying it and to avoid a massacre Russia told all soldiers stationed to not use force, and thus the wall fell.

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The Tiananmen Square Massacre was a response of the Chinese government towards protesters in Tiananmen Square. China not wanting any protesters sent in troops as the number of protesters increased. Then when they sent the army in many protesters tried to block the troops from coming and then by 1:00 am once only a thousand protesters were left they asked for a surrender and got a decline from the protesters and then China fired upon the crowd and beat students clearing the square. This led to many Western powers shaming China and sanctions on trade from the US. Protests also began and in response China censored all forms of media involving the massacre.

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After the end of WW2 the cease fire that was between the Kuomintang and Communist Chinese ended and the war went back to its full blast fight. The revolution nearly ended in the defeat of the Communists who were being backed by the USSR  by the forces of the Kuomintang who were backed by the US but in a twist the communists turned the tables and were able to push the Kuomintang out of China to Taiwan though were not able to take Taiwan but they had by that point established Communist China and had given the communists a great foothold in Asia very early in the cold war.

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In Cuba the revolutionary Fidel Castro had begun to rise up against the oppressive government of Cuba, toting anti imperial ideals with the idea of making Cuba free of the US's influence. While doing this Russia saw a key ally that was near US mainland and began to support Castro, leading him to saying that Cuba was communist and allies with Russia. With the success of Castro in the revolution the US had lost control of an economic ally and gained a threat to homeland security.

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Was a response to the revolution in Cuba in which the US had sent a landing force in to the Bay of Pigs in hope of inciting a push back against the communists, but Fidel Castro was more prepared than expected and all the invading troops were beaten. This led to a wave of anti American beliefs sprouting out in Latin America and left America ashamed and at threat of losing control of Latin America

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During the split between the democratic and communist sections of Berlin, Russia was locking up their part of Berlin to starve them so they would be more likely to turn to communism and Russia to escape this starvation. In response to this threat of communism, the UK and US devised a plan in which they would fly planes over Berlin and drop food and supplies to the people to keep them from turning to communism. This plan worked out very well and eventually led to Russia allowing their part of Berlin to have supplies once again without the spread of communism.
Image is the people of Berlin celebrating the planes dropping supplies into Berlin.