RE: Life before the Internet versus Life after the Internet

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In between there were many indirect conflicts such as Vietnam wars also called Second Indochina War was a war that pitted between 1964 and 1975 to the Republic of Vietnam, or South Vietnam, supported mainly by the United States against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam, supported by the Communist bloc in the general context of the Cold War and Korea was a war between North Korea and South Korea that developed between 25 June 1950 and 17 July 1953. Both belligerents were supported by foreign powers related to their ideology: communist and capitalist respectively.

It is considered that the time was closer, were the United States and the Soviet Union of a direct military confrontation between the two, during the Cold War. The Cuban missile crisis in 1962, perhaps one of the episodes that put the closest nuclear war also took place. American U2 spy plane took photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The Soviet Union sent a total of 42 medium-range missiles and 24 intermediate range to Cuba. US threatened to invade Cuba by that issue, which ultimately missiles were removed with the American promise not to invade Cuba.

Although the Soviet Union and China forged an alliance in 1949, there was always a gap between them It was used by the Americans. The United States initiated a policy of understanding with China to contain the Soviets. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1980, which led to the Americans and their allies to boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980. In retaliation, the Soviets and their allies boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. In the other hand, Americans financed their weapons to the Afghan guerrillas to fight Soviet troops. The war in Afghanistan was an important factor Soviet collapse.

The US government announced a major buildup of weapons in a time when the Soviet Union was too weak financially. In 1985, and on the other side, Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union, adopting a conciliatory attitude with the Americans, signing many arms reduction agreements. In 1989 there was a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and a year later the reunification of Germany was signed, as Gorbachev as an important figure. Finally, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the end of the Cold War.

As a result of this war:

-The United States and the Soviet Union accumulated large stockpiles of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

Another Consequence that arose because of this war were the differences of these great world powers and thus the world was divided into two distinct blocks: the allied countries to the United States advocates of capitalism, and countries in the orbit of the USSR under the communist regime, this caused a climate of global tension and caused most countries would be forced to take part thus constituting two powerful military blocs: NATO (formed by the US and its allies) in 1949 and the Pact Warsaw (The Soviet Union and its allies) in 1955.

He came to the destructive conflicts in Vietnam and Korea.

-The Soviet Union collapsed because its economic weaknesses.

He tore down the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the end of the Cold War which was built with the real aim of preventing the escape to freedom of thousands of discontented citizens with the communist regime imposed by the USSR and the Warsaw Pact disintegrated.

-the Baltic states and some former Soviet republics gained independence.

-Latin Became the world's only superpower.

He collapsed communism