COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Spain and England
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US and China
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Soviet Union and United States
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United States and Vietnam
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Cold War saw the two superpowers – the USA and the Soviet Union – divide the world into spheres of influence and power blocs.
Detailed explanation-2: -The global standoff for dominance between the United States and the Soviet Union created in the aftermath of World War II affected all aspects of life in the postwar world.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Over more than four decades of Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union waged multiple proxy wars across the globe.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.