Which countries were involved in the cold war and which countries had alliances with each other?
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Really just about every country on earth was involved in the Cold war. Either you were pro Soviet or pro West. Most countries were pro West unless they were part of the Soviet bloc or traded oil and weapons with the Soviets. Kind of like the war on terrorism. You are for us or against us.
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The last real war that Russia was in was when Afghanistan handed them there A$$ on a platter 1980-1987. China was a supporter of North Vietnam but wasn't really at war. When the supported North Korea in the Korean War. They basically lost that one when the US led NATO troops pushed them back above the 38th parallel. Both now just sit back and watch the world go by and sell arms.
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Henry Kissinger, was instrumental in pushing foward the policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which led to a lessening of tensions between East and West during the Cold War. Detente led to a policy of engagement that culminated in the Anti-Ballistic Missle Treaty and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. He also secured the normalization of relations with China through what has now been called "ping pong diplomacy".
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This is from memory so it's probably not complete, sorry.\nEngland, Spain, Barbary Coast States, Germany, Austria Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Viet Nam, Iraq.\n\nNorth Korea (US was part of UN forces).
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People's Republic of China, North Vietnam, North Korea
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US,UK,France,Belgium,Yugoslavia,Russia,Canada and i dunno if there r any others
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well, sorry, but Ronald Reagan is involved in my answer.  The end of the Cold War was a pretty major one.
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the soviets and americans wanted to spread communism and democracy respectively and wanted to prevent the other from spreading their ideologies. this led to the cold war.
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The US basically started the UN!  The US pushed for other countries to join the UN during the Cold War and now must accept what it has helped implement.  Can you Neocon Conspiracy theorists get over yourselves?  The UN is not a demonic institution that was prophasized in the "Bible" or a creation of the former Soviet Bloc countries!  Geez...
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Boy, there's a debate.\n\nShort Answer: The United States, and it did it by spend the Soviet Union into oblivion. The USSR suffered the fate of most empires -- it overextended itself and ran of the resources necessary to sustain its empire.\nBut the US did it at a terrible cost. We are now stuck with a military-industrial complex that is bleeding us drive and could very soon threaten our own superiority.\n\nSo philosophical answer: The Cold War isn't over yet, and we could still lose.
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B... eventually. US took over most of Britain's mid-east role, France lost out in Vietnam and Algeria, and so on and so on.\n\nAnd the Warsaw Pact was between the USSR and Eastern European States from 1955 to 1991. Duh
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The Cold War was an extended period of bipolar rivalry between the USSR and the USA. Most obviously, it represents a period of stability in International Relations where the world was often divided into two seperate spheres - the US and its satellites and the USSR and its satellites.\n\nIn many ways this was also a clash of values and of political systems, of a liberal democracy dedicated to free trade and market forces against a socialist authoritarian state operating on the basis of a command economy, though it is important not to overstress this. \n\nTo a large degree the Cold War was nothing more than a particular instance of bipolarity where the international order was balanced between two superpowers.
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China. \n\nTaiwan was in the UN in the place of China until the 60's
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2, usa and russia, coz they're ally.
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To some degree, the answer to your question depends on which side of the Iron Curtain you sided with.  Americans will blame the Russians (soviets) and Russians blame Americans.\n\nI think it is the US fear of communism and the policy of containment that started the Cold War.
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NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but I believe it was set up to mostly protect Western Europe from Eastern Europe (who subsequently formed the Warsaw Pact afterwards).
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The coalition of the willing 2003:\nAfghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan. \nNations who dropped out (includes countries who had 1 or 2 people assigned to other armies):\nBulgaria, Ukraine, Nicaraugua, Spain, Honduras, Norway, Dominican Republic, Phillipines, Thailand, Hungary, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Netherlands, Moldava, Tonga, Iceland.