In what ways and for what reasons did the cold war affect the middle east?
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Well let's see.\n\nBasically following WWII, when Britain ceded Palestine and Israel was formed, everyone started taking sides. Many Arab nations formed close alliances with the Soviet Union, selling them oil in return for weapons systems, military training, and other things. \n\nFrance, Britain, and to a lesser extent the US all helped Israel. We gave them guns and planes and bombs and tanks, and they kept the area at least partially pro-capitalism.\n\nAmerican M1 tanks, French Dassault Mirages, and British rifles helped beat Syria and Jordan and the other Arab nations in the Six Day War, the War of Attrition. American F-4 Phantoms played a pivotal role in the Yom Kippur war.\n\nSoviet MiG planes and SAMs (surface to air missiles) claimed many Israeli planes in the Yom Kippur war, despite the fact the Arabs were crappy pilots compared to the Israelis.
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The answer to this question would fill a book and you certainly couldnt do it justice here.\n\nMaybe break the question down into sub questions like what effect did it have immediately during the conflict, what effect did it have on politics, religion, welfare, human rights, future wars etc.\n\nThat will give people a chance to give you good short answers which will then build up a picture.
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Oil imports to the US and the direct and indirect impacts upon US politics.  (Lots of info available)\n\nPopulation trends in the world and regionally.  Especially Europe.\n(big Islamic trend) CIA source books are available a great source\n\nMoney invested in ground breaking research (nano tech for example) Lots of source material
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The Cold War was a very dangerous time, in which highly-organized military threats existed side-by-side with Soviet-aligned terrorists.  Any moral or national-identity clarity came from the basic need to (1) survive, and (2) prevail.  That clarity was of the same sort that Benjamin Franklin referred to when he said, "The prospect of hanging concentrates the mind wonderfully."\n\nNostalgia can only come in retrospect, with the knowledge that we were going to win.  At the time, it was not necessarily a sure thing; and there always was the very real risk that a miscalculation or misperception could touch off a massive nuclear exchange.  The Cold War contained several real, full-scale wars, in which millions of people (not just our comparatively few soldiers) died.  The lives of generations were stunted as they served as pawns in proxy wars throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.\n\nAcademically and politically, I am among the very last of the Cold Warriors, studying under government officials doubling as professors as the Communist bloc crumbled.  We were no flaming liberals--we were foreign policy pragmatists who came from all over the map of domestic politics.  All of us were absolutely thrilled to see the bastards go down.  None of us wanted a rematch.  We looked forward, joyfully, toward the chance to concentrate on all the other things at home and abroad that needed attention.  Too many of those stagnated for lack of resources and attention during the long, long Cold War.
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The west and not just the US has interfered in the Middle East since the 19th Century.  The US involvement began after WW II.  If the Middle east was not rich in natural gas and oil, the US would pay no heed to the Middle East.  It is all about a powerful country imposing their will on other countries when they do know the language, culture or religion.
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McCarthyism in the US.\nThe Berlin Airlift\nThe Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, revolts against the state in East Germany, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. the Soviet war in Afghanistan, conflicts in the Middle East with the Soviet Union supporting Arab nations and the US supporting Israel\nThe building of the Berlin Wall.\nNixon's visit to China.\nThe first space satellite launched by the Soviet Union and the subsequent space race which led to the moon landing by the US.
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The answer to your question is thoroughly explained in the documentary Farenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.\nIt shows that what really defines the relationship between the middle east and the united states are the common economic interests of the ruthless saudi dictatorship and the US elite (The bushes, the VP and all of the big corporate and energy executives) \nThe iraq war is just and excuse to control its oil for their benefit(Not yours, you´re still paying 3 bucks a gallon)
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A Cold War would probably be more properly described as a long term conflict. A war would be defined as a situation where two states engage in direct military combat. There is no doubt that the Soviet Union and the United States engaged in a great political, ideological, economic and even military struggle against one another, but there was almost no instance of direct military conlfict between the two states. Thus, it was a "cold" war rather than a "hot" one, where direct military engagement occurred.\n\nHowever, having said that, it is undeniable that both sides were engaging each other but through the use of proxy states. Thus there was conflict in East and South East Asia must notably in Korea and Vietnam. They also came to the brink of war on more than one occasion, most famously in the Cuban Missile Crisis.\n\nIn sum, the distiction of it being a "Cold" War is an important one, though it actually fact it is more properly defined as an extended bipolar conflict.
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The Cold War (Russian: Холодная война , Kholodna-ya voina) was the protracted geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged after World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States, supported by their alliance partners. It lasted from about 1947 to the period leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991.\nThe global contest was popularly termed The Cold War because direct hostilities never occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union. Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear and conventional weapons, networks of military alliances, economic warfare and trade embargos, propaganda, espionage and proxy wars, especially those involving superpower support for opposing sides within civil wars. The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 was the most important direct confrontation, together with a series of confrontations over the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Wall. The major civil wars polarized along cold war lines were the Greek Civil War, Korean War, Vietnam War and the Soviet-Afghan War, along with more peripheral conflicts in Angola, El Salvador, and Nicaragua.\n\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Instability in the Middle East existed long before the United States did.
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with us maybe, but there has always and will always been turmoil of some sort in the middle east. I believe it will all depend on how the middle east continues to treat the rest of the world as a whole.
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The Cold War was an extended period of bipolar rivalry between the USSR and the USA. Most obviously, it represents a period of stability in International Relations where the world was often divided into two seperate spheres - the US and its satellites and the USSR and its satellites.\n\nIn many ways this was also a clash of values and of political systems, of a liberal democracy dedicated to free trade and market forces against a socialist authoritarian state operating on the basis of a command economy, though it is important not to overstress this. \n\nTo a large degree the Cold War was nothing more than a particular instance of bipolarity where the international order was balanced between two superpowers.
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Because, unlike "hot" wars, a "cold" war features relatively little direct military conflict.  The US and Soviet Union never fought directly on each other's native soil, but instead conflicted via policies, diplomatics, embargoes, and the occasional "offsite" military confrontation (e.g. Korea and Vietnam).
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cold war - threat of TOTAL destruction of civilisation ; present time - most of the world disagrees with those who want to destabilise things and create anarchy; but the latter case has been true for 100s of years ( Jesus would have been regarded as a terrorist these days). So , I go with cold war as being worse.
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B... eventually. US took over most of Britain's mid-east role, France lost out in Vietnam and Algeria, and so on and so on.\n\nAnd the Warsaw Pact was between the USSR and Eastern European States from 1955 to 1991. Duh
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The Cold War from 1983-1984, between the U.S and Soviet Union.
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The continuation of the Cold War and the huge increase in oil prices