Sec 4 Pure and Elective History students should be fairly familiar with the topic on the Cold War. I stumbled on this article "5 things you did not know about the Cold War". Here's a summary of the article:
1) It was predicted by Hitler - "... there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other — the United States and Soviet Russia"
2) The 1st Cold War casualty was a Christian missionary
1) It was predicted by Hitler - "... there will remain in the world only two Great Powers capable of confronting each other — the United States and Soviet Russia"
2) The 1st Cold War casualty was a Christian missionary
3) US had more communists on its side than the USSR (reason: US-Sino rapprochement - China and US moved closer to each other)
4) It cost the US about $8 trillion (By the way, the US is spending about $8 billion per month on the war in Iraq, so the amount spent on the Cold War could fund the Iraq operation for another 80 years)
5) It ended in part because of Apple (the computer; NOT the fruit!)
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