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What does cold war mean?
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| cold war - a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare | ||
| enmity, antagonism, hostility (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure | ||
| cold war - a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States | ||
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- cold war (Noun)
A period of hostile relations between rivals where direct open warfare between them is largely undesired and avoided.
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cold war
The period of conflict, tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s.
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The Cold War took place between 1945 and 1991. The Cold War was not like any other war, because the two main enemies' armies never actually fought against each other. The term "Cold" war is used to describe the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 45 year period after the end of World War II because neither country liked each other. Many people were afraid that it might end in a nuclear war, but that never happened.
Conflicting countries.
The United States and Soviet Union each had many countries from around the world on their side.
The United Kingdom, France, Australia, West Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands were countries on the American side. East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland were on the soviet side, and Cuba, North Korea, China, Mongolia and also other countries at different times were friendly to the Soviets.
Before the Cold War.
The cold war was partially due to the different ways of thinking, both in economy and the way of governing. The United States had adopted capitalism as their economic system while the Soviet Union chose communism, the US was democratic while USSR was nearly a dictatorship. These differences lead to angry relationship between the two countries
World War II.
The USSR and the United States were allies when World War II happened because neither country liked Nazi Germany. Even though they were allies, they still did not like each other. Soviets thought that the United States and the United Kingd
