What events in Latin America heightened tension of the Cold War?
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The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. I lived through it and it was the most helpless I ever felt in my life. Some of us expected a nuclear war between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. and there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Read more...
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None of the above, the tensions were not eased until the soviet union started breaking down.  They did get a little better in the 70's than they were in the 50's but only by degrees.
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Red Scare" has been retroactively applied to two distinct periods of intense anti-leftism/anti-Communism in United States history: first from 1917 to 1920, and second from the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, which signified the entrance into the Cold War.
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-2_Crisis_of_1960
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No, because Communist Dictatorships are beginning to Flourish in Central, and South America. Most Notably Venezuela, and now Brazil.There is an Open Alliance with Cuba that, when Castro Dies, his Regime will, unfortunately Continue. I Hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so.
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Fidel Castro became aligned with the U.S.S.R. and in 1961 nearly brought the world to nuclear war when he allowed the Soviets to install nuclear-capable missiles on Cuban soil (which made them close enough to the United States to allow them to reach the East Coast of this country within minutes. President Kennedy waged a 13-day negotiation with/ultimatim against Nikita Kruschev and the U.S.S.R.  Eventually, the Soviets backed down and removed the weapons, but by this time, Cuba had declared itself Communist and was aligned with the Soviets until that the U.S.S.R. crumbled in 1989.  The Congress and the Kennedy Administration refused to finance our mortal enemies and closed off all trade with Cuba.
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YOu can search that online, but it did not do much for Latin America. It made more damage than good.
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Probably most of them, but it was the first time a soviet president backed down from the US and gave us a huge advantage psychologically.\n\nI don't think it reduced tensions, but at least Kennedy had a TV broadcast where he showed the world photographs taken form a U2of Soviet missles being set up in Cuba and on Ships.\n\nEven though almost 40 years later, Bush couldn't show us any evidence of anything. He damn sure had no photographs.
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I believe you're refering to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
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The end of the Cold War and the break up of the Soviet Union would be the first event, however this event came over a period of years and with many players.  However to get to this event you would have to acknowledge the fact that the U.S. became a Superpower by our involvement in both World Wars.
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Bush government may attack to Iran(an attack to Syria is also within possibilities) or support the attack of Israel. But I don’t think that it is going to be within one year at least since USA may have some trouble in its backyard within forthcoming months. Brazil-China relations become closer. There is already a tension with Venezuela. There will be elections in around 10 South-America countries in 2006. At the end of this year, USA may have other Chavezes to deal with. USA is already in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is risky to attack not only Iran but any other country before having stability in the backyard. \n\nYou may look over the following link to see whats going there.\nAnalysis: How the US 'lost' Latin America \nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4861320.stm
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Don't know about the U.S., was on the opposite side during the cold war. For us, the opposite side, the effects were unpleasant: because the economy was so militarized, we had deficits of consumer goods. Could have lived better but for the competition with America. Maybe indirectly it caused the disintegration of the whole country and the collapse of the whole economy. In addition, everyone was afraid of any bang - what if that was the American bomb exploding? I know that the same was happening in the West - everyone was afraid of the Soviet bombs that could have started falling any moment.
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U.S Civil War? Do you know what century that was in?\n\nOf your choices, I would say it was the Cold War.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война , Kholodna-ya voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.\nThe global contest was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along cold war lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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south america, between chile, bolivia, paraguay, brazil, uruguay and the atlantic ocean.
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South America, most of Central America, and the Caribbean