civil war

The civil war in China was another spark that led to the blow up of the cold war. China was separated into two parts. One half was nationalism which was led by Chiang and the other was communism led by Mao Zedong. America has already been its share of war because we where trying to contain communism and this was no different. American gave economic support to Ciang because he was on the side against the communist but didn't always do right with the money. Chiang was accused of being corrupt and not doing what is best for its county which led to America losing control over china and letting it fall to communism. This was a huge set back for America because we believe that if one nation falls to communism soon nations around will do the same." Domino Theory"

S.T.A.R.T

A modern day analysis of the cold war is when president Obama signed a arms treaty with Russia. During the cold war nuclear forces between the superpower was a big part all of the problems. No one country wanted to be trumped by the other when it came to military forces. So in order to avoid world war 3 or any other sort of war the nations with a large amount nuclear power would agree to reduce all weapons to a certain number. The treaty stated that if two countries reduced missiles and launchers that it may prevent nuclear terrorism in Iron and North Korea which would help keep world peace. Which concludes that problem that we had during the cold war are still a problem today.

The space race was when the United States and Russia where competing to see who could put a satellite into orbit first. On October 4, 1957 Russia had successfully launched Sputnik into orbit. The news of Sputnik had reached all around the world. American feared that if Russia put a satellite into outer space than they could launch a missile from space and hit us. We felt vulnerable and safe so during school students would have drills in case a missile hit. Less than a year later America had successful launched satellite in January of 1958.