COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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The Cold War was very similar to WWII in the use of military techniques and tactics.
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The Cold War was an ideological war between the Soviet Union and United States.
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The United States and Soviet Union were in constant competition over who had the most nuclear power.
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The Cold War began right after WWII.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they each supported opposing sides in major regional conflicts known as proxy wars.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Cold War was a period of heightened tensions between the US and the Soviet Union. Lasting from 1945-1991, the two nations never directly fought, but instead engaged in proxy wars to advance their own ideologies–the US aiming to repel communism, and the USSR seeking to spread it.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War was the war between the USSR and the USA which never actually came to direct fighting. Both tried to impose their ideologies on other countries – communism and capitalism – and gain superiority by the use of propaganda, espionage and the vast stores of weapons.