THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Battle for control over the frozen tundra of Siberia
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Competition for world influence between the U.S. and USSR.
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Contest between scientists to be the first to use atomic power to create cold fusion.
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Collegiate rivalry between Minnesota and Michigan hockey.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A cold war is a state of conflict between nations that does not involve direct military action but is pursued primarily through economic and political actions, propaganda, acts of espionage or proxy wars waged by surrogates. This term is most commonly used to refer to the American-Soviet Cold War of 1947–1991.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Three key features defined the Cold War: 1) the threat of nuclear war, 2) competition over the allegiance (loyalty) of newly independent nations, and 3) the military and economic support of each other’s enemies around the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.