Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second factor leading both sides to the bargaining table is the belief that a nuclear war cannot be won, Bundy said...
SUNDAY'S New York Times editorial, "The Cold War is Over," rightly suggests that "Soviet-American relations are entering a new era." Regrettably, the piece did little to explain what lay behind the current shift in East-West relations or what lies ahead for the two superpowers...
Coming out of World War II the United States, led by Harry Truman, reached a consensus shared by both Democrats and Republicans. Rather than forcefully knocking out a Soviet Russia tired and spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...
More importantly, the Cold War initiated a costly arms race--a war of economic attrition which the weaker Soviet economy has been unable to win--leading to the Gorbachev "reforms." The political and economic costs of the arms race and Soviet expansionism--and the realization that these policies cannot be continued with out doing great harm to the Soviet economy and regime--are what ultimately lie behind recent Russian reforms...
...result is that the Cold War and consumerism has diverted so much American money and attention from material and human resource development that early 21st-century America will almost certainly be affected adversely at home and abroad. But, then again, all this is in the future. And even doomsayers say that this foreseeable, unagreeable American future is (theoretically, at least) still largely avoidable...