online assignment 3

- Explain the ideological differences between Democracy, Capitalism, Communism and Socialism.
The way that the states are ruled are different,as some ideologies like communisnm facism do not allow citizens to voice out their views and their intentions.
- Explain the origins of Cold War.

The Origins of the Cold War are widely regarded to lie most directly within the relations between the Soviet Union and its World War II allies the United States, Britain and France in the years 1945–1947. Those events led to the Cold War that endured for just under half a century.

Events preceding the Second World War, and even the Russian Revolution of 1917, underlay pre-World War II tensions between the Soviet Union, western European countries and the United States. A series of events during and after World War II exacerbated tensions, including the Soviet-German pact during the first two years of the war leading to subsequent invasions, the perceived delay of an amphibious invasion of German-occupied western Europe, the western allies' support of the Atlantic Charter, disagreement in wartime conferences over the fate of Eastern Europe, the Soviets' creation of an Eastern Bloc of Soviet Socialist Republics and Soviet satellite states, western allies scrapping the Morgenthau Plan to support the rebuilding of German industry and the Marshall Plan.

- Was Cold War a war?

No , it wasn't ,it was just the continuing state of political conflict , military tension, and economic competition that existed after WW2.

- Describe the impacts of the Cold War.

The Cold war led to significant effects in the neighboring countries like the Korean War, the Berlin Blockade , the Vietnam War , the Berlin crisis, and Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.This resulted in many countries experiencing massive losses in wealth and life at such times.Another effect would be the Cuban Missile Crisis that widely drew fears of an oncoming world war.The Cold War also caused many countries to suffer monumental economic stagnation as a result of the war.Most importantly , the Cold War contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

(http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Effect-of-the-Cold-War-on-the-World&id=1730034)


- What was the peak of the Cold War (Germany divided)?
after WW2,germany and its capital berlin were divided,and east germany came under communist influence when their west counnterparts became a democratic state.


- How and why did the the Cold War ended?

The cold war ended due to a relax in tensions between the united states and the soviet union.Some credit this to new leadership in the soviet regime ie Gorbachev but others credit this to reagan.

(http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_and_why_did_the_cold_war_end)