COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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It was only fought during winter.
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The soldiers did not have warm clothing.
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This war was fought using ideas and propaganda instead of guns.
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It was primarily fought in the north and south poles.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why was it called the ‘Cold’ War? It was called the Cold War for the following reasons: First of all, neither the Soviet Union nor the United States officially declared war on the other. In fact, there was never any direct large-scale fighting between the two superpowers.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -1 Answer. (i) The Cold War referred to the competition, the tensions and a series of confrontations between the US and Soviet Union. It never escalated into a hot war, i.e. a full-scale war between these two powers.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -Propaganda during the Cold War was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s in the early years of the Cold War. The United States would make propaganda that criticized and belittled the enemy, the Soviet Union. The American government dispersed propaganda through movies, television, music, literature and art.