Spain wanted to protect its colony in Mexico from other Europeans
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- Conflict Name: Cold War.
- Conflict Start: 1946 (U.S. Policy of Soviet Containment)
- Conflict End: 1991 (The Collapse of the USSR)
- Conflict Belligerents: United States (NATO) and the Soviet Union (Warsaw Pact)
- Conflict Winner: United States.
- It’s estimated that more than 11 million people were killed throughout all the various proxy wars fought by the United States of America and the Soviet Union.
- The term Cold War was coined by English writer George Orwell in his essay “You and the Atomic Bomb”, which he published on October 19th, 1945.
- The deadliest proxy war during the Cold War was the Vietnam War, over 3.5 million people were killed.
- The nuclear arms race during the Cold War saw a peak in nuclear weapon stockpiles in 1985, where both countries combined had over 50,000 nuclear weapons.
- The internet was born out of the Cold War. The United States government funded a project called ARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which was to develop a method for military computers to share information with one another very quickly.
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