There was no actual battles during the cold war but the closest thing to it a proxy battle if you will was operation cyclone. Allow me to set the stage cold war tensions are at a high. The ussr is in a war with afghanistan that has the affectionate nickname of the soviet vietnam. Now the U.S.A. could just leave this alone however we had an almost unhealthy fixation upon overthrowing communist regimes at the time it was kind of our thing. However we could not openly join the soviet-afghan war, so what do we do we send munitions to the side we like. The main reason why we interfered is because of a foreign policy of containment that essentially was us trying to keep the soviets in their timeout corner, or for a more scientific way of saying
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It all started during the aftermath of WWII "At Potsdam, the Allies agreed on the postwar outcome for Nazi Germany. After territorial adjustments, Germany was divided into four OCCUPATION ZONES with the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union each administering one. Germany was to be democratized and de-Nazified. Once the Nazi leaders were arrested and war crimes trials began, a date would be agreed upon for the election of a new German government and the withdrawal of Allied troops."(http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp) russia decided they wanted more and wanted it to have a certain degree of permanence. So they conquered germany and much of the surrounding area this was the beginning of the U.S.S.R.. This did not help our already rocky relationship with the communist nation."When the Soviet Union entered the war between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States no longer needed their aid, but Stalin was there to collect on Western promises. All these factors contributed to a climate of mistrust that heightened tensions at the outbreak of the Cold War." …show more content…
Almost sixty times more Soviets died in the war than the Americans." This all came to a head however, because of a spirit of isolationism in the air we decided not to declare a all out war instead adopting the truman doctrine of only containing the spread of communism. sticking to this doctrine got us into a lot of trouble case in point operation cyclone."Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger put it best saying that “the American foreign policy trauma […] is caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable
It all started during the aftermath of WWII "At Potsdam, the Allies agreed on the postwar outcome for Nazi Germany. After territorial adjustments, Germany was divided into four OCCUPATION ZONES with the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union each administering one. Germany was to be democratized and de-Nazified. Once the Nazi leaders were arrested and war crimes trials began, a date would be agreed upon for the election of a new German government and the withdrawal of Allied troops."(http://www.ushistory.org/us/52a.asp) russia decided they wanted more and wanted it to have a certain degree of permanence. So they conquered germany and much of the surrounding area this was the beginning of the U.S.S.R.. This did not help our already rocky relationship with the communist nation."When the Soviet Union entered the war between the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States no longer needed their aid, but Stalin was there to collect on Western promises. All these factors contributed to a climate of mistrust that heightened tensions at the outbreak of the Cold War." …show more content…
Almost sixty times more Soviets died in the war than the Americans." This all came to a head however, because of a spirit of isolationism in the air we decided not to declare a all out war instead adopting the truman doctrine of only containing the spread of communism. sticking to this doctrine got us into a lot of trouble case in point operation cyclone."Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry A. Kissinger put it best saying that “the American foreign policy trauma […] is caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable