The Cold War: Competition Between Russia And The United States

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Have you been inside a bomb shelter or seen what they look like? Because children in the 1940’s almost had to live in one because of the chance of nuclear war! I will be telling you about the cold war. A cold war happens when there is intense economic, political, military, and cultural competition. This war almost destroyed two countries. Now let’s get started with the essay.
In this paragraph I will be briefly describe the war where it took place and what year it started and stopped. The cold war was a huge competition between Russia and the United States of America. They tried to show who had the biggest military, best economy, the best type of government, and who showed the most cultural spirit. The war started in 1947 and ended in 1991. …show more content…

The cold war started at the end of World War Two. In World War Two America and Russia were allies, but when Khrushchev was elected, he changed Russia’s government from socialist to communist. America was not happy about this so we did things to lower Russia’s economy like stop trading with them
In these next 2 paragraphs’ I will be telling you some major conflicts that happened during the cold war the first one I will tell you about is the atomic age in 1949 the Soviets tested their first atomic bomb this angered the USA so in response the USA said they would make a bomb bigger than the one they made. And they did it way called a hydrogen bomb we the bomb was tested on the Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands it made a 25 square mile hole I the island this era made most American civilians build bomb shelters
In their back yard. Have you heard of the Sputnik? It was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on October 4, 1957. This started the space race. Once the USA says they were behind in Russia. In 1958, the U.S. launched its own satellite, Explorer I it was designed and made by the us army but Russia step it up a bit and sent the first man into space in April 1961 the US know they had to do something better so John F. Kennedy made a bold stamen that we would send a man to the moon. And they did on July 20, 1969 mission Apollo 11 made it to the moon and Neil Armstrong was first to step foot on the

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