World History: What event is your favorite?

[Kelvin12]

XD Funny.

[Acarr]

No one word posts please.

[spiraldoor]

I don't think they should be disallowed outright – on the uncommon occasion that they convey something interesting or useful (the above is not an example) they should be permitted.

[Hunchman801]

I think we already discussed this, you're right and the same thing applies to boon smilies.

[Rayman9930]

We haven't studied this yet in history, but what was the Cold War?

[Cairnie]

Wasn't that the one where everyone was shitting themselves over getting nuked for nearly 50 years?

Ah the joys of simple wikipedia.

[Tobbe]

@Rayman9930: Wikipedia is your friend. Here's the introduction from the Wikipedia article on the Cold War:

The Cold War (Russian: Холо́дная война́) (1945–1991) was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II (1939–1945), primarily between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, including the United States. Although the primary participants' military forces never officially clashed directly, they expressed the conflict through military coalitions, strategic conventional force deployments, a nuclear arms race, espionage, proxy wars, propaganda, and technological competition, such as the Space Race.

Despite being allies against the Axis powers and having the most powerful forces, the USSR and the US disagreed about the configuration of the post-war world while occupying most of Europe. The Soviet Union created the Eastern Bloc with the eastern European countries it occupied, annexing some as Soviet Socialist Republics and maintaining others as satellite states, some of which were later consolidated as the Warsaw Pact (1955–1991). The US and some western European countries established containment of communism as a defensive policy, establishing alliances such as NATO to that end.

Several such countries also coordinated the Marshall Plan, especially in West Germany, which the USSR opposed. Elsewhere, in Latin America and Southeast Asia, the USSR assisted and helped foster communist revolutions, opposed by several western countries and their regional allies; some they attempted to roll back, with mixed results. Some countries aligned with NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and others formed the Non-Aligned Movement.

The Cold War featured periods of relative calm and of international high tension – the Berlin Blockade (1948–1949), the Korean War (1950–1953), the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Vietnam War (1959–1975), the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–1989), and the Able Archer 83 NATO exercises in November 1983. Both sides sought détente to relieve political tensions and deter direct military attack, which would likely guarantee their mutual assured destruction with nuclear weapons.

In the 1980s, the United States increased diplomatic, military, and economic pressures against the USSR, which had already suffered severe economic stagnation. Thereafter, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev introduced the liberalizing reforms of perestroika ("reconstruction", "reorganization", 1987) and glasnost ("openness", ca. 1985). The Cold War ended after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, leaving the United States as the dominant military power, and Russia possessing most of the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenal. The Cold War and its events have had a significant impact on the world today, and it is commonly referred to in popular culture.

[Cairnie]

Shoulda gave him the link to the simple English page of that but no matter.

[Rayman9930]

It doesn't matter! They say that the Civil War(US) is the deadliest war in US history. More people died in that war then the War in Iraq, WWI, WWII, the Mexican War, the Revolutionary War, and every other war we ever had. More lives were lost in the Civil War(1861 - 1865) than the deaths in any other war the US has faced in its history combined.

[Tobbe]

I beg you: Could you please make sense? Just once?

[Rayman9930]

Will do; Has anyone here had a civil war in their country?

[Hunchman801]

Well, probably everyone here...

[Rayman9930]

True: anyone name any besides my country?

[Hunchman801]

The Albigensian Crusade.

[Matyuv]

"Russian Civil War"

[Rayman9930]

I'm glad France, Spain, and other countries helped my country get it's independence. France: I mean who would want to lose three battles in a center then.

[Hunchman801]

Aha fuck off, don't forget who helped you kick the Brits out of your country. Also a civil war isn't necessarily a war for independence, you should really learn history outside your own country...

[Matyuv]

History lessons are just lame patriotic propaganda most of the time, at least here.

They often just go like, how heroic and full of patriotic spirit the soldiers were, instead of telling the facts and making it actually interesting.

[Rayman9930]

My bad, I forgot to mention that was to my country, The Revolutionary War. My Civil War was 1st about states' rights vs. the governments' rights and 2nd about slavery.

[PluMGMK]

The Civil War in my country was about the treaty. That is, some people agreed with the partitioning of Ireland and others thought that we should have the entire island.

Funny, there was something on the radio on how Encyclopaedia Britannica messed up that information today.