THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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conflict between armed opponents
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competition for economic and political power
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conflict that involves exchange of atomic weapons
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competition for petroleum resources in the Arctic
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-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 ideological conflict between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War was an ideological conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, or in other words capitalism against “communism”.