USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War lasted about 45 years. There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight. The United States became the leader of the free-market capitalist world.

Detailed explanation-2: -What was the Cold War-and are we headed to another one? The 45-year standoff between the West and the U.S.S.R. ended when the Soviet Union dissolved.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War is the name given to the 40-year long stand-off between the Superpowers-the United States and the Soviet Union-which defined the world’s political map for most of the second half of the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart.

Detailed explanation-5: -December 25, 1991 – Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union and the post is abolished; the red Soviet flag is lowered from the Moscow Kremlin, and in its place the flag of the Russian Federation is raised. December 26, 1991 – The Supreme Soviet dissolves the Soviet Union.