COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Detailed explanation-1: -Allied during World War II, the USA and the USSR became competitors on the world stage and engaged in what became known as the Cold War, so called because it never boiled over into open war between the two powers but was focused on espionage, political subversion and proxy wars.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States was not the only leading power on the world stage after the end of World War II; it had a new competitor for this power in the Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War saw the two superpowers – the USA and the Soviet Union – divide the world into spheres of influence and power blocs. This course examines the start of the Cold War, its defining features and its final stages as the Soviet Union quietly ended in 1991.