WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War lasted about 45 years. There were no direct military campaigns between the two main antagonists, the United States and the Soviet Union. Yet billions of dollars and millions of lives were lost in the fight. The United States became the leader of the free-market capitalist world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Cold War is the name given to the 40-year long stand-off between the Superpowers-the United States and the Soviet Union-which defined the world’s political map for most of the second half of the 20th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the uneasy alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other started to fall apart.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War (1953–1962) discusses the period within the Cold War from the end of the Korean War in 1953 to the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Cold War lasted for so long because of mainly two factors, the fact that nuclear weapons were involved, and therefore engaging in a direct confrontation would prove too costly for both sides, so that was avoided, so the only way for the war to end was through an indirect conflict.