USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term “Cold War” became a shorthand to describe the ideological struggle between capitalism in the West and communism in the East. American journalist Walter Lippmann popularized the term in a series of articles in 1947 as nations chose sides in the standoff.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cold War was a global political and ideological struggle between capitalist and communist countries, particularly between the two surviving superpowers of the postwar world: the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s called the Cold War because no actual military engagement took place between the United States and the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Instead, fighting took place in proxy wars conducted in “third-world” countries. The United States and USSR clashed over their economic and political philosophies.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indirect conflict was in Korea and Vietnam. Conflict in these countries are tied to the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union supported groups in these countries to either spread democracy or communism. If the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in nuclear war then then we would destroy each other.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.