THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Communism and Fascism
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Communism and Totalitarianism
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Democracy and Fascism
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Communism/Authoritarianism and Democracy/Capitalism
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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: -The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, or in other words capitalism against “communism”.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. Despite being called a war, it was not a direct military confrontation between the two sides.
Detailed explanation-4: -But throughout those four-plus decades, the threat that atomic warfare would destroy human life loomed large. Westad has long argued that we should take a broader view of the roots of the Cold War. For him, its distinctive feature was the competition between capitalism and communism.