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The cold war was a military stand-off between two sets of nuclear armed nations. If anyone was ever killed or injured, it was usually an accident (subs crashing into each other; planes colliding with each other; patrols accidently entering the wrong areas, etc.).
The war on terrorists is an actual physical hunt for terrorists (a category of violent criminals-felons) who commenced murdering innocent people on 11 September 2001. No nation is the target (such as WWII Germany, Italy, Japan; or the Korean War/North Korea; or the Vietnam War/North Vietnam-no countries are being attacked); just the criminals that are committing violence.
The Cold War was the long, drawn out conflict between the United States (and NATO) against the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (Soviet Russia). This conflict is associated with The Korean War, The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and many conflicts in the Middle East. This conflict lasted from about 1946 through 1991.
The War on Terror is the United States' (plus the UN and NATO) conflict against terrorist organizations across the world. The War on Terror was started by President Bush after 9/11 to engage in conflict against Al Qaeda, and other terrorist organizations in the Middle East.
Some people may associate the War on Terror with the War in Iraq as well, but that can be debatable depending on who you talk to.
Because during the Cold War, Russia invaded Afghanistan to increase their borders with Pakistan.
And now, during the War on Terror, America have occupied areas of Afghanistan and Iraq with the help of the British Army. Attempting to capture Osama bin Laden.
Complex issue, but here's a simpler treatment.
The Cold War was a non declared war and period of heightened tensions between the US and the USSR. There was a period of tension and open conflict involving China and the US regionally in Korea and Vietnam. Much of the tension rose from expansion policies of the Soviet Union and China and America's Truman Policy and America's love affair with the Domino Theory.
The "War on Terror" is more of a sound bite with which the media has run rabid. It highlights American efforts to address terrorism on US soil and within US interests around the world. Largely it has been less than successful, primarily in preparing the American people for real threats (consider the deaths of three in Boston and a statewide lockdown to twelve slain in Paris and citizens in the streets).
The War on Terror and the Cold War are quite different. The War on Terror is a series of hot wars that the US fights in different countries believed to be harboring terrorists prejudicial to US interests. The Cold War was a tense geopolitical struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union that resulted in these two superpowers adding fire to local struggles for power in numerous third-world countries.
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What are differences and similarities between hot wars and cold wars?
A hot war is actual fighting (actual killing). A cold war is not a war at all; the name "cold war" was simply a TERM chosen to title the "military stand-off" between the free world and the communist world.
What are the similarities between Australia's involvement in the Korean war and the Vietnam war?
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What was the conflict between the US and the Soviet Union?
Cold War
What was the term for the conflict between the US and Soviet Union after World War II?
The Cold War.
What are the similarities between the hundred years war and the war of the roses?
They overlapped and sometimes were conflated with each other.
What are the similarities between a cold war and hot war?
both are conflicts.
Who is the war on terror between?
the war on terror is between the United States and Iraq
Are there similarities between the cold war and the holy war?
Negative! The Cold War was NOT a war; the cold war involved NO killing nor destruction. The cold war was just a name...meaning "a military stand-off." A Holy War is a war with religion as basis for the war.
Are there any economic similarities between the cold war and the war in Iraq?
The only one I know is that they both fought America, well America was in the cold war and America fought Iraq.
What are the similarities between cold war and hot war?
A hot war is shooting at each other. A cold war is facing each other but NOT Shooting.
What are differences and similarities between hot wars and cold wars?
A hot war is actual fighting (actual killing). A cold war is not a war at all; the name "cold war" was simply a TERM chosen to title the "military stand-off" between the free world and the communist world.
Describe the effects of the introduction of nuclear weapons?
The main one has been the terror of the cold war and all the side effects from that terror.
What are three similarities between Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher?
Both were Cold War political leaders who advocated increased military spending.
What are the simularities between the Vietnam war and the war of terror?
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Is war a solution to terror?
War causes terror, so how can war be a solution to terror?
What are the similarities between the war in Iraq and Libya?
Instability.
What were the fights in the cold war about?
There are a few different ways to think about the Cold War. It was usually described in terms of the conflict between two economic systems, capitalism vs. communism. It was also a conflict between nations, the USSR and its allies vs. the US and its allies. These two versions of events were equivalent, they merged together. So the Cold War was about who gets to control the world. Of course, once the Cold War ended, we quickly discovered that there was another player in the game. Now we have the war on terror.
