Question

What were the major arenas of cold war ? explain with the help of an example.

Answer 1

These are the conflicts to which both superpowers were directly involved but not directly engaged between one another which escalated into a “shooting war” or a real war between Soviet and American troops. There are countless of them but here are some of the most important.The Berlin Blockade of 1948, the Korean War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cuban Revolution, the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Berlin Crisis of 1961, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, the Yom Kippur War, the Iranian Revolution of 1979, the Soviet War in Afghanistan, the Revolutions of 1989, the Persian Gulf War and the Yugoslav Wars. These conflicts are where both the US and the Soviet Union are in direct participation but not in direct conflict or confrontation.Both superpowers were involved behind the scenes and used these conflicts as “proxy wars” to engage with each other without escalating the Cold War into World War III.