THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
Question
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Two superpowers directly fighting
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Two countries fight without any assistance
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Competing in sports instead of military force
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Using another country’s soldiers to fight a war
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Detailed explanation-1: -Proxy warfare is best defined as the direct or indirect sponsorship of third-party conventional or irregular forces that lie outside of the constitutional order of states engaged in armed conflict.
Detailed explanation-2: -A proxy war occurs when a major power instigates or plays a major role in supporting and directing a party to a conflict but does only a small portion of the actual fighting itself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Those conflicts, also known as proxy wars, entailed the United States and Soviet Union providing political, financial, and military support to friendly governments.
Detailed explanation-4: -The USA and the USSR never fought directly. Instead, they pulled other countries into fighting their war. These wars are known as proxy wars. Example are-the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the 1956 Suez Canal crisis, the 1961 Berlin crisis, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.