"Surrogate wars" also known as "proxy wars" are wars fought in a third country. The US and the Soviet Union were fighting each other in, for example, Afghanistan and Vietnam.
They preferred proxy wars, because they came without civilian victims of own population and without a distraction of the infrastructure of their own countries. In short, the two powers could compete militarily with each other without suffering the worst effects of the wars - this situation allowed them to try to defeat the other one without much risk to their own population.
Feudalism is the denomination of the predominant political system in Western Europe of the middle centuries of the Middle Ages (between the 9th and 15th centuries), and in Eastern Europe during the Modern Age, characterized by the decentralization of political power; based on the diffusion of power from the top (where in theory were the emperor or kings) to the base where local power was exercised effectively with great autonomy and independence by an aristocracy, called nobility.
James Madison was the person behind the federalist papers. He later became the president of the U.S.
<span>After moving his Army of the Potomac by boat to Fort Monroe on the Atlantic coast in late April, McClellan planned an advance toward Richmond via the peninsula formed by the York and James Rivers. Due to a habit of consistently overestimating his enemy’s numbers, the Union general refused to act until late May.</span>
Answer:
To spread Communism
Explanation:
The Cubans were communists, and the main goal of the Soviet Union was to spread communism throughout the world, and although they made the policy of Detente (peaceful coexistence with the US and its allies), their main goal was to replace Communism with Capitalism.
However, there was also another goal. The US had stationed nukes in Turkey, and the Soviets were feeling really threatened. As a result, they wanted a Communist country that they could put nukes in.
