S. And the U.S.S.R. The second subject added also the countries of the non-aligned block. To this answer, he suggested an important book on the Cold War, Henry Kissinger's "Diplomacy." Indeed, the book reveals the importance of the non-aligned countries especially the ones in Africa or Latin America for the creation of the spheres of influence and the equilibrium of the time (Kissinger, 1995).
At the forth question on the most significant moments of the Cold War in everyone's view, again, the answers were different. My mother pointed out the arms race and the SALT I and II as tools for the disarmament. Also, she pointed out the role Gorbachev played in the change of politics and approach of the U.S.S.R. together with that of Ronald Reagan's. The second answer considered the landing on the moon by the Americans to have played a major role in determining the supremacy of the U.S. over the U.S.S.R. because, he says, "the landing on...
had the combined technology and means to achieve such a great effort, with all the things it entangled, from technology to financing, to wits, to public support." The third subject included a Eastern perspective of course and viewed the built and the fall of the Berlin wall as essential for the Cold War in the sense that the construction of the Wall was symbolic for the separation of Europe in the western and communist parts whereas the fall of the Iron Curtain was the symbol for the end of such separation.
All of the answers however pointed out that the Cold War was not a traditional war but rather a state of political, economic, cultural, technological tension between two poles of power that manifested at a global level and even in countries that were not direct parties in the "confrontation."
Reference
Kissinger, Henry. Diplomacy. (London: Simon & Schuster, 1995)
