For me the height of the Cold War was the first Nuclear Test by the Soviet Union on the 29th of August 1949.
This was also probably the start of the 'cold-war' itself.
Before the Soviet Union has tested a live Nuclear Weapon, the United States was flexing it's muscles all over the world based on it's economic and military might.
However, the Soviet Nukes proved that there was another player on the global scene with the same weapons as the United States.
Subsequently Soviet Union couldn't, and in effect did, challenge America's dominance in every corned of the world for the next 40 years.
For me, this precise moment was more important than the 'Cuban Crisis'
Most likely there is. The most common example I can think of is in political circles. The goal is most often to create an echo chamber for their thoughts and opinions and keeping other ideas oppressed. Sectionalism exists in any group with a rigidly defined dogma, and closed thinking like that is still rampant in the modern United States of America. <span />
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It simply means that, they<em> lost out greatly in all things</em> despite the fact that they were not killed by shells and bullets.
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The word ''<em>destroyed</em> by the war'' could be likened to the fact that the men in question were total humbled by the loss of <em>material assets</em> like houses, <em>means of livelihood</em>, <em>loss of relations and personal wealth</em> (money) occasioned by the war. A situation where someone that was living comfortably was reduced to penury.
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You're looking for Joliet and Marquette
<span>Uneven distribution of wealth between upper and lower classes.
Overproduction by businesses and agriculture.
Americans were buying less.</span>
