https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt The cold war en-us 2017-06-05 01:42:07 UTC 2024-07-01 16:27:15 UTC hello@padlet.com kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175150585 2017-06-05 01:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175150585 kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175150697 Throughout the 1980s, the Soviet Union fought an increasingly frustrating war in Afghanistan. At the same time, the Soviet economy faced the continuously escalating costs of the arms race. Dissent at home grew while the stagnant economy faltered under the combined burden. Attempted reforms at home left the Soviet Union unwilling to rebuff challenges to its control in Eastern Europe. During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted and the Cold War came to an end.

]]> 2017-06-05 01:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175150697 kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175153595 This when the cold war was happening.]]> 2017-06-05 02:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175153595 kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175307787 During the Cold War, the United States invested heavily in submarine technology to counter a much larger Soviet submarine force. Technological superiority proved a winning but expensive strategy. How expensive is hard to say. Determining the cost of any advanced military technological system produced in relatively small numbers raises complex problems. There are no price lists for nuclear-powered submarines. A 1998 study estimated that the United States spent $2 trillion in 1996 dollars (to account for inflation) on all strategic nuclear forces throughout the Cold War. Submarines took about one-third the total: $320.5 billion for the ballistic-missile submarine program, plus $97 billion for the missiles; $46 billion for the submarine share of naval nuclear propulsion research, development, testing, production, and operations; and $220 billion for attack submarine construction, weapons, and related systems.Nuclear-powered submarines also took almost one-third of the Navy's shipbuilding funds between 1952 and 1991—19% for fast attacks, 12% for boomers—and, at peak strength, comprised just under one-third of the U.S. Navy's fighting fleet. Although submarines cost relatively more than surface ships to buy, they are cheaper to operate. Not only do submarines have smaller crews, the purchase price includes the cost of fuel. Nuclear-powered submarines steam for years between refuelings while conventionally powered warships must refill their fuel tanks every few days.

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 ]]> 2017-06-06 01:46:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175307787 kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175479435 2017-06-07 00:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175479435 kapur665951 https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175479667 1. Russia secretly had maps so detailed of the Canadian Arctic during the Cold-War that other ships even now use them over official maps.

2.During the cold war, America sent Romania 20,000 bibles, which the Romanians subsequently turned into toilet paper because they had a shortage.

3.During the Cold War, America used bears to test their ejector seats in supersonic jets.

4-During the Cold War, an 18-year-old German aviator (with only 50 hours’ worth of flying experience) illegally flew through the Soviet airspace.

5. The most powerful air raid sirens ever built (during the cold war) was powered by an 180 horse Chrysler V-8 engine, were nearly 12 feet long and were rumored to be so powerful that they could start fires and turn fog into the rain.]]> 2017-06-07 00:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kapur665951/y5ycsavgzbxt/wish/175479667