The Cold War
- The dispute was between the Soviet Union (USSR)and the US. It escalated due to antagonist values between the United States, representing capitalism and democracy, and the Soviet Union, representing communism and authoritarianism.
- The war lasted from 1947 to 1991.
- States in the west much richer and those in the East had lower wages. More women work in the east than the west. The east also had less choice of food supplies in shops whereas the west had luxuries of global food such as fruit. There are also more migrants in the west of Germany. Because East Germany was inland, they did not have the access to imports that West Germany had. This resulted in different produce being available in one and not in the other.The East was also largely communist as the USSR had control over it, whilst the West was Capitalist. This meant that people would have been generally poorer in the East as wealth is shared equally in communist states, whilst the West would have been quite prosperous. Also, the East would have been under a dictatorship whilst the West would have been democratic.
- The NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) commenced a 10-day exercise codenamed Able Archer 83. It involved most of Western Europe and was directed from Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) at Casteau, Belgium. Able Archer was a complex simulation of a hypothetical war with the Warsaw Pact that included a series of fictional military exercises escalating to the launch of nuclear weapons
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