04-14-2008, 05:58 PM
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Sith Marauder
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Location: I'm lost,please send help
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Re: The Cold War
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Originally Posted by Hombre de Mundo
Maybe It's hard to speculate where we'd be today, had it not happened.
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Its not that hard to speculate. In the end it turned out to be a good thing. The constant compitition forced technology and science to increase at a much higher rate than it would have if the cold war hadn't happened. I bet that things like space exploration, modern computers, the internet, modern aircraft, ect would have been invented 25 years later than they were if the cold war hadn't happened.
Also, becuase of the forming of NATO and other such alliances, it premoted better relations between the U.S., Canada, and Europe. It also cuased the U.S. to take a more active role in global peace keeping which later helped countries like South Korea and Taiwan maintain independance, not to mention helping Communist countries with things like the Berlin Airlift in East Germany.
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Last edited by SheikahSage; 04-16-2008 at 06:13 PM.
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