For fifty years the Soviet Union stood in the eyes of the West as a terrifying enigma bent on imperial and ideological expansion. According to Washington, it was a threatening state that needed to be confronted and contained. From Berlin to Hanoi and Cairo to Havana, the United States and the Soviet Union clashed in an era known as the Cold War.

25/12/1991 · In response to NATO, the Soviet Union in 1955 consolidated power among Eastern bloc countries under a rival alliance called the Warsaw Pact, setting off the Cold War.

23/09/2019 · Cold War Soviet Union. In Enemy Number One: The United States of America in Soviet Ideology and Propaganda, 1945-1959, I analyzed how Soviet people adapted their worldview to postwar Soviet ideology, which almost overnight turned a recent friend and ally, the United States, into enemy number one. Even with a long history of ambivalent attitudes ...

Since the very beginning of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the USSR supplied the Arab states, particularly Egypt and Syria, with Soviet arms and military advisers.

13/09/2020 · Soviet women queue for food during shortages in the 1980s A significant factor in the end of the Cold War was economic stagnation in the Soviet Union. Through the 1970s, the nation endured a severe economic downturn that had a detrimental effect on living standards and made waging the Cold War even more costly.

The section ‘Soviet expansionism’ analyses how the United States and the USSR continued to defend and extend their zones of influence across the world. The Soviets became new allies of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, took a foothold in the African continent and invaded Afghanistan. The Americans brought Egypt back into the US fold and offered financial support …

Life in the the Soviet Union during the Cold War was very different from life in the US. The obvious difference was communism, which took away freedoms from everyday people. Under Stalin, the state had total control over all media, and anyone caught reading, watching, or listening to any not permitted by the government was severely punished.

31/10/2021 · Geographically, the Union of Soviet Russia and the United States of America two came to the largest countries’ list during the Cold War era (1945-1991). During that time, the USSR was the largest country in the world with a total land area of 22.4 million square kilometers. Though, in 1991 the Soviet Union collapsed into 15 nations; but its successor Russian …

In December of 1991 the Soviet Union (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or U.S.S.R.) was officially dissolved. From it emerged Russia (the Russian Federation) and a number of independent countries in Central Asia and Eastern Europe (shown in greens in the map). In addition the countries of Eastern Europe were freed from Soviet military ...

Cold War military equipment of the Soviet Union includes military equipment developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War .