COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The Middle East has a strategic location and valuable resources
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The Middle East has a vast fertile farmlands and rivers
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The Middle East has a large well-educated population
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The Middle East is a large manufacturing center with many factories
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War started in Europe. From 1945 to 1953, the USSR expanded its influence by creating the Eastern Bloc across states like Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Stalin set up puppet communist governments that he could control. He repressed anyone who resisted.
Detailed explanation-2: -Washington and Moscow competed in numerous ways: over money and natural resources like oil, over allies, over weapons technology, over influence and prestige, over space exploration, over ideas. The Cold War relationship between the two rival nations was often tense.
Detailed explanation-3: -Beginning in the early 1970s, the Soviet regime proclaimed a policy of détente and sought increased economic cooperation and disarmament negotiations with the West. However, the Soviet stance on human rights and its invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 created new tensions between the two countries.
Detailed explanation-4: -Eastern Germany was at first a Soviet military occupation zone, but soon became the German Democratic Republic under German communist party rule. Stalin wanted Eastern Europe under his thumb both as a defense buffer to protect the Soviet motherland and to expand socialism, the communist economic system.