USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -After World War II, the United States and its allies, and the Soviet Union and its satellite states began a decades-long struggle for supremacy known as the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Washington and Moscow competed in numerous ways: over money and natural resources like oil, over allies, over weapons technology, over influence and prestige, over space exploration, over ideas. The Cold War relationship between the two rival nations was often tense.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This hostility between the two superpowers was first given its name by George Orwell in an article published in 1945.

Detailed explanation-4: -As World War II transformed both the United States and the USSR, turning the nations into formidable world powers, competition between the two increased. Following the defeat of the Axis powers, an ideological and political rivalry between the United States and the USSR gave way to the start of the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Soviet Union became one of the world’s two superpowers along with the United States. For many years they fought the west in what is today called the Cold War. Another major country to be ruled by a communist government is China. The Communist Party gained control after winning the Chinese Civil War.