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The Cold war research The Cold War started in 1945, with the United States, against the Soviet Union. This war was a post war argument, because there was some tension between United States and the Soviet Union, however there were no actual real, declared battles. When Franklin D. Roosevelt was present, Roosevelt and Stalin met up in the Yalta Conference where they discussed Democracy. They made a final agreement that Stalin would allow democracy in Eastern Europe. Later, Franklin D. Roosevelt passed away in April of 1945. Harry S. Truman then met up with Stalin in the Potsdam conference. Stalin took back what he had told Roosevelt, and he no longer allowed Democratic Elections.

This war of communism vs. democracy kept going. Rather the Soviet Union attacking United States, they dropped an atomic bomb on China. Other wars that also came out of this were the Korean and the Vietnam War. Soon, the idea of communism started to fail. The Soviet Union kept trying to push the idea of communism throughout the whole world, but this didn’t work, and then the fall of the Soviet Union took place. In 1991, the Cold war had finally ended, taking communism down with it.

websites used:

@http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war

@http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/coldwar.html

@http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/coldwar.htm Questions

1. What major changes were made in your life when the cold war started.  The GI loans, manufacture accelerated a lot.

2. How was school different? Went to all girl private school and not much was changed. Does not remember much about the drills.

3. Did prices for everyday items like groceries, toys, and gas raise or lower at all  Remembers that gas was very low and prices did not change much.

4. Did your parents ever tell you what was going on during the war? or did you find out from propaganda (tv, radio, newspaper) No, parents did not tell her about cold war, and she did not have a TV until later. Did not want to know and was too young to know.

5. Do you think Russia or the usa kept any of their weapons?  Does not think the USA did, does not know about the Russians. But she remembered that they tested the bombs underground.

6. At times were you scared that the Russians would bomb the usa?

Yes she remembers hearing that and was scared a little bit. Her parents would tell her not to worry about it.

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">7.Do you think they would have every bomb Wisconsin?

<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> No because by the time they got to the shores they would have been stopped and the only things in Wisconsin where paper mills. If anyplace they would bomb New York.