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. Soldiers of the Soviet Union and the United States did not do battle directly during the Cold War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Allied during World War II, the USA and the USSR became competitors on the world stage and engaged in what became known as the Cold War, so called because it never boiled over into open war between the two powers but was focused on espionage, political subversion and proxy wars.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War saw the two superpowers – the USA and the Soviet Union – divide the world into spheres of influence and power blocs. This course examines the start of the Cold War, its defining features and its final stages as the Soviet Union quietly ended in 1991.

Detailed explanation-4: -After World War II two powers, the United States and the Soviet Union became the world superpowers. These two countries had the economic resources and military force to dominate the globe. During the war, the Soviet Union and the west had cooperated to defeat Nazi Germany. By 1945 this wartime alliance was crumbling.